Family & Relationships
Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
Dawn
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Eleanor H. Porter
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going …
Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2
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Jean Webster
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
The Cricket on the Hearth
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Charles Dickens
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious …
A Peep Behind the Scenes
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Mrs. O. F. Walton
Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…
The Wheat Princess
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Jean Webster
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she…
The Mother and the Child
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Maria Montessori
"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the import…
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2) (Dramatic Reading)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" foll…
The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore
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Laura Lee Hope
In this third volume of the “Bobbsey Twin Series”, the twins – Nan and Bert and Freddie and Flossie – go with their family to visit relative…
Little Fishers and Their Nets
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Pansy
Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and…
Mother Carey’s Chickens
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
“When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to b…
Judge Burnham's Daughters
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Pansy
>Fifth in the Chautauqua Girls series. Ruth Erskine Burnham has helped raise her husband's two daughters, but all have rejected her faith…
Elsie's Widowhood
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Martha Finley
The seventh in the Elsie Dinsmore series, this book begins with the death of Elsie's beloved husband. As Elsie learns to live in widowhood, …
The Woman in White - version 2
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Wilkie Collins
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…
Dead Men's Shoes
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she w…
One Commonplace Day
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Pansy
A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the disc…
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Louisa May Alcott
When country girl Polly Milton comes to visit her friend Fanny Shaw, city life isn’t all she had hoped it would be. Thrown in the middle of …
A Guide to Men
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Helen Rowland
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bla…
They and I
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Jerome K. Jerome
A man and his three children leave the “Little Mother” at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervi…
New Chronicles of Rebecca
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro.