Family & Relationships
The Egoist
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George Meredith
The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…
The Ordeal of Elizabeth
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William James Mcglothlin
An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is orphaned and raised by her spinster aunts. As…
The Giant-Killer - or the Battle Which All Must Fight
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…
The Cinder Pond
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Carroll Watson Rankin
Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The facto…
Alice Dugdale
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Anthony Trollope
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by eve…
Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…
Living With Our Children: A Book of Little Essays for Mothers
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Clara Dillingham Pierson
This book is a collection of small essays to help parents better understand their children and offer help to parents in the task of raising …
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove
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Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue were featured in a series of 20 books for young children published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate from 1916-193…
Java Head
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Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…
Concerning Isabel Carnaby
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of h…
Our Little English Cousin
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Blanche Mcmanus
This delightful little book is another in the "Our Little Cousin" series that offered American children insight into what their yo…
The Haunted Room
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…
That Office Boy
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Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
A new story by Father Finn! It will be glad news to many to learn that Father Finn has found time from his many duties to write a new story,…
More About Pixie
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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
Mary Louise (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise is a girl who lives with her mother and grandfather. Ever since she was small, every little while they have had to pack up and m…
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives
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William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Nami-ko
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Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …