Family & Relationships

The Children Of The Abbey

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Regina Maria Roche


Published in 1796, this novel tells the trials and tribulations of Amanda and Oscar FitzAlan, brother and sister who have to navigate the wo…

The Man On The Other Side

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Ada Barnett


Ruth never expected to have a house of her own. Raised in an orphanage, she is forced to work for her living. She chooses to work in a book …

The Inheritance

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier


"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…

Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

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Margery Watson


A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shor…

In Times Like These

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Nellie Mcclung


"Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests pr…

The Visioning, A Novel

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Susan Glaspell


"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with…

A Hive of Busy Bees

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Effie Mae Hency Williams


In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma and Grandpa's farm. They have great fun, and every night Grandma tells them a story about…

The Elements of Mammalogy

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William Ruschenberger


The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This s…

Bealby; A Holiday

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H. G. Wells


Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the g…

The Blythe Girls: Margy's Queer Inheritance

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Laura Lee Hope


Helen, Margy and Rose Blythe, displaced from their family home in Long Island, have struggled to carve out a new life in their tiny apartmen…

A Christmas Miscellany

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Various


A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

The Tale of Muley Cow

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Arthur Scott Bailey


This series of Tuck Me In Tales and Slumber Town Tales of animal stories for children from three to eight years, tells of the adventures of …

Half a Century

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Jane Grey Swisshelm


In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…

The Wind Boy

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Ethel Cook Eliot


A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christ…

Miss Lochinvar

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Marion Ames Taggart


At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure which, will be arriving from the west to l…

The Homesteader

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Oscar Micheaux


The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader in the Dakotas. He meets Agnes who he fa…

The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams


Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her …

Human Toll

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Barbara Baynton


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…

A Queen

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Ottilie Wildermuth


Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. …

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