Family & Relationships

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 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…

Doctor Thorne (version 2)

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Anthony Trollope


This is the third book in The Chronicles of Barsetshire, the first two being The Warden and Barchester Towers; however, although some charac…

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'…

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…

Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories

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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…

Members of the Family

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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…

The Feast of St. Friend

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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…

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

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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…

Peggy's Trial

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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 …

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…

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…

Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

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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…

Mildred Keith

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Martha Finley


Mildred Keith has a good life in Lansdale, Ohio - family, friends and school keep her happy and busy. But when her parents announce they're …

The Windy Hill

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Cornelia Meigs


When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …

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 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)

Grandmother Elsie

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Martha Finley


Change has come to Elsie's family in the 8th book of this delightful series. Her daughter, Violet, marries a naval Captain with three childr…

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