Family & Relationships

Wives and Daughters

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
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…

What Katy Did

by Susan Coolidge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Ka…

Stories of Successful Marriages

by Walter Besant Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of short stories by celebrated authors on the subject of successful marriages. Pieces originally appeared in other publications…

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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 Bobbsey Twins at Home

by Laura Lee Hope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the eighth book in the "Bobbsey Twins" series. In it Flossie and Freddie find, in a big snow storm, the lost father of Tom…

The Christmas Child

by Hesba Stretton Read by A LibriVox Volunteer 4.7
A short sweet, yet sad, Christmas story about forgiveness, but especially about loving others for who they are and not for who we want them …

Pollyanna's Debt of Honor

by Harriet Lummis Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the fifth Pollyanna Glad Book. Pollyanna is kept busy teaching her famous "glad game" to others and thus spreading her own…

Man of Property

by John Galsworthy 4.9
At its heart, this is not so much the story of two might-be, could-be lovers whose blossoming liaison threatens to destroy the marriage of a…

What Katy Did at School

by Susan Coolidge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Following Katy's recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to Hillsover, a boarding school. Together with their new friend Rosamond Redd…

The Little Minister

by J. M. Barrie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but r…

The Hope of Happiness

by Meredith Nicholson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A hot and sultry day in the mid-west finds Bruce Storrs trying to cool off and clear his head. He has received a troubling death-bed letter …

Leave it to Doris

by Ethel Hueston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Reverend Mr. Artman is a widower of three years and is worried he might not be able to escape the clutches of Miss Carlton, his housekee…

The Little Grey House

by Marion Ames Taggart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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…

Living With Our Children

by Clara Dillingham Pierson Read by SweetHome 4.8
This book is a collection of small essays to help parents better understand their children and offer help to parents in the task of raising …

The Pennycomequicks

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by Michael Reuss 4.6
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

On Angel's Wings

by Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene was an Irish author of children's books. However, like any good book for children, this book is also for adults…

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by Anne Erickson 4.6
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…

The Older Brother

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.6
Two brothers, one 20 years old, the other almost eighteen, and one younger sister. The older brother has had to delay his primary schooling …

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

The Girls of Gardenville

by Carroll Watson Rankin Read by Betsie Bush 4.3
Step into the charming world of Gardenville, where a lively group of girls navigates the joys and challenges of adolescence. In "The Gi…

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