Family & Relationships
The Little Grey House
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Marion Ames Taggart
The Grey House is grey in color and is home to the Grey family. In this, the first of the Grey House books, we are introduced to the three G…
A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story (Dramatic Reading)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
A group of friends spend a summer camping in a canyon in Southern California. Fun camp adventures, breath-taking scenery, and a little state…
The Adventures of Tommy Blake
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Brother Ernest Ryan
Child of an atheist father and a devoutly Catholic mother, Tommy has been from childhood the object of a battle of love. Tommy’s courage and…
Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading)
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of her mother. Now Mr Gibson decides it will be in Molly's best interests for him to m…
Eddie of Jackson's Gang
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Brother Ernest Ryan
Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child,…
Marriage, volume 2
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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
Lady Juliana is the daughter of the Earl of Courtland. She receives a marriage proposal from a wealthy Duke but much to the horror of her fa…
Liliecrona's Home
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Selma Lagerlöf
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…
The Fairchild Family
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Mary Martha Sherwood
The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their acti…
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Join the endearing May family in small-town England as each member lives through some pivotal years. How will they face the changes that sha…
Little Susy's Little Servants
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Elizabeth Prentiss
“As Little Susy had a kind mamma to take care of her, you will, perhaps, wonder why God gave her also, a great many servants of her own. He …
Still - William
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Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (version 2)
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do!For I warn yo…
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage
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Rodris Roth
The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home …
The Confessions of a Daddy
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Ellis Parker Butler
The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…
Mildred at Roselands
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Martha Finley
In order to recover her health, Mildred Keith goes to visit her mother's extended family, the Dinsmores, in the South. Mildred makes new fri…
The Spirit of Christmas (version 2)
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Henry van Dyke
A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson).
The Heel of Achilles
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E. M. Delafield
After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl, decides to explore her own individuality and climbs the social ladder…
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time
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Emilie Maceroni
Magic Words is a Victorian tale of a community and how a few women bring a special kind of Christmas magic to the community-- Magic that can…
Odd
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Amy Le Feuvre
He found the word for her, and she read with difficulty, 'Trouble, distress, great affliction.''Do they all mean tribulation?' she asked.'Tr…
Lodore
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Mary Shelley
The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic na…