Family & Relationships

Mollie's Prince

by Rosa Nouchette Carey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferab…

Vassar Studies

by Julia Augusta Schwartz Read by Daryl Wor 5
Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. I…

Human Toll

by Barbara Baynton Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.5
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…

Helen in the Editor's Chair

by Ruthe S. Wheeler Read by Bellona Times 3.5
After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor of the town newspaper, The Rolfe Herald, and leaves for a rest cure in the…

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In the first book of this classic series, Anne Shirley is an 11 year-old orphan girl who has never had a true home. Through an adoption mist…

Christian Oeconomie

by William Perkins Read by InTheDesert
A Short Survey of the Right Manner of Erecting and Ordering a Family According to the Scriptures.Proverbs 24:3-4 Through wisdom is an house …

The Child in the Midst

by Mary Shauffler Labaree Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage i…

The English Au Pair

3.5
A Canadian couple contracts for an au pair from England to watch their children, but they are not prepared for the changes that occur in the…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex

by Havelock Ellis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.9
The second of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topic of "Sexual Inversion", or homosexuality to give it a m…

The Goodness of St. Rocque

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 3.5
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

The Pathway of the Pioneer

by Dolf Wyllarde Read by Grant Hurlock 3
The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of "Nous Autres." They repre…

Selected Works of E. Boyd Smith

by E. Boyd Smith Read by Barry Eads 2.8
A sampling of the children's books written and illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. The first story is Mr. Smith's version of the Story of Noah's …

A Family Man

by John Galsworthy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
John Builder is a solid, middle-class Englishman. He is very domineering but finds that the women around him are insistent on living their o…

Two Sides To Every Question

by Maud Jean Franc Read by Kirsty Leishman 3.6
'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …

The Portion of Labor

by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After t…

A Versailles Christmas-Tide

by Mary Stuart Boyd Read by David Wales 4.1
In the heart of France, a young boy's battle with scarlet fever brings his parents rushing to his side, weaving a poignant narrative of love…

One Day More

by Joseph Conrad Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
A one-act play. Eccentric (crazy?) Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and sav…

The Sins of the Fathers

by William Tennant Read by William Tennant 3.2
This is a story about life. This is a story about light. This is a story of how some men are the product of their lives, and some are the pr…

Sons of Fire

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Jim Locke 3.3
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…

The Doctor's Christmas Eve

by James Lane Allen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
The Doctor's Christmas Eve offers a reflective glimpse into the life of a fictional country doctor as the year comes to a close. Set against…

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