Family & Relationships

A Peep Behind the Scenes

Read by Abigail Rasmussen


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 Mother and the Child

Read by Edith van der Have-Raats


Maria Montessori


"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the import…

The Wheat Princess

Read by Celine Major


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…

Der Bauernspiegel

Read by Hans Hafen


Jeremias Gotthelf


"Der Bauernspiegel", erschienen 1837, war der erste Roman von Albert Bitzius (1797-1854). Der Name der Hauptfigur aus diesem Werk …

Contes du jour et de la nuit

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Guy de Maupassant


Dans cette compilation de 27 contes parfois tristes, horribles, marrants ou même fantastiques, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) montre de…

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…

Elsie's Widowhood

Read by Rachel


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, …

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…

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…

The Woman in White - version 2

Read by Tony Addison


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…

They and I

Read by Debra Lynn


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.

A Guide to Men

Read by Cori Samuel


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…

Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant

Read by TriciaG


Pansy


The Bryant family - widowed Mrs. Bryant and her children Benjamin, Caroline ("Line" for short), and little Daisy - is on the thin …

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 …

The Rose Garden Husband

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


Margaret Widdemer


This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…

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