Family & Relationships
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Read by Ruth Golding
John Leighton
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
A Christmas When The West Was Young
Read by David Wales
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales)
The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown Ho…
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Margaret Sidney
Polly Pepper loves to tell stories, but there just isn't enough room in the other books to include her stories! So, since "the author h…
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories
Read by David Wales
Lucy Maud Montgomery
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…
Understood Betsy (version 2)
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill…
The Adventures of Joel Pepper
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Margaret Sidney
The Peppers are a family of three boys, two girls, and Mamsie. They are poor, living in their "Little Brown House", but they alway…
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook
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Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbseys are home from their adventure on the houseboat and now they're off to visit their cousins at Meadow Brook Farm. But they haven'…
Emily of New Moon (Version 2)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Orphaned Emily Starr is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy…
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
The Feast of St. Friend
Read by Ruth Golding
Arnold Bennett
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's w…
Members of the Family
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
Read by Gina Belmonde
Various
A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the V…
The Railway Children (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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E. Nesbit
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are suddenly yanked out of their comfortable lives and removed to live in the country with only their mother and …
The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules
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Josephine Turck Baker
Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…
Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 2)
Read by Matthew Soanes
A. A. Milne
A charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the search is on for Eeyo…
Peggy's Trial
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Mary Knight Potter
Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has ta…
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)
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Amelia E. Barr
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …
Eyebright
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Susan Coolidge
"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners…
The Art of Kissing
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Will Rossiter
The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle)
Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive
Read by John Greenman
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new…