Family & Relationships

The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea

Read by Nan Dodge


Laura Lee Hope


This is the 11th in the original series of books about the Bobbseys -- two sets of twins in one family, solving mysteries and having adventu…

The Wind in the Willows (Version 6)

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Kenneth Grahame


The Wind in the Willows is a classic children's book--enjoyed by all ages!--by British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Be…

Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle

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Charlotte Turner Smith


This book was written about 150 years ahead of its time. It tells the story of Emmeline Mobwray who grows up in a dysfunctional family and h…

Elsie's New Relations

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Martha Finley


In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative t…

Bits About Home Matters

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Helen Hunt Jackson


This book is a collection of short observations by Helen Hunt Jackson, several with children and parenting as the subject matter. (Summary b…

Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)

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Steele Rudd


Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection""The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eig…

The Little Colonel's House Party

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Annie Fellows Johnston


Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…

The Old Peabody Pew

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)

The Little Minister

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J. M. Barrie


Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but r…

Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace)

Read by Daryl Wor


Harriet Lummis Smith


In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from…

Elsie at Nantucket

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Martha Finley


Elsie and her family travel to Nantucket Island to spend the summer. The Raymond children and others learn important lessons. After a deligh…

That Mother-in-Law of Mine

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William James Mcglothlin


Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out o…

Die Frauen und ihr Beruf

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Luise Büchner


Luise Büchner war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin. In ihrem Buch "Die Frauen und ihr Beruf", erstmals ers…

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

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T. S. Arthur


Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …

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 Home-Maker

Read by Maria Kasper


Dorothy Canfield Fisher


The Knapp family seems as though they ought to be happy, yet hidden frustrations are tearing them apart under the surface. As the family bre…

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…

Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Samuel Gordon


Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…

めぐりあひ (Meguriai)

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Shuusei Tokuda


友吉は少年です。彼の家族は、お父さん、お母さん、妹そして、赤ん坊です。彼等は、彼が５歳になるまで、お母さんの故郷に住んでいました。そして、東京に移りました。お父さんは大酒飲みです。ついに、お母さんは、赤ん坊を連れて、実家に帰ってしまいました。お父さんと２人の子供は、お父さんの故郷…

The Cinder Pond

Read by Betsie Bush


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…

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