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The Precipice
Read by Mary Schneider
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…
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…
Little Novels
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Wilkie Collins
Master Victorian storyteller Wilkie Collins, author of classics such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, brings us a collection of nove…
Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California
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Emily Kathleen Cooke
November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
The Re-creation of Brian Kent
Read by Warren Kati
Harold Bell Wright
Brian Kent is a bank clerk who is driven by a variety of circumstances to commit a series of thefts from his employer. Remorseful, drunk, s…
The Rebel of the School
Read by Elaine Webb
L. T. Meade
Kathleen O'Hara is a young pretty girl sent to school in England from Ireland by her father to get a good education, but Kathleen has other …
Miss Priscilla Hunter, and My Daughter Susan
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Pansy
Two shorter stories in one book. In "Miss Priscilla Hunter," the church has been carrying debt for years. It's an embarrassment, a…
Entertaining Made Easy
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Emily Rose Burt
This book provides the hostess with ideas for parties and games. There are five sections: Socials and Parties, Outdoor Affairs, Birthdays an…
Susan
Read by Celine Major
Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined …
The Italian Cook Book
Read by Diana Majlinger
Maria Gentile
One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reas…
Gertrude Bell
Read by Lynette Caulkins
Ronald Bodley and Lorna Hearst
A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…
American Cookery
Read by Betsie Bush
Amelia Simmons
American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, was the first known cookbook written by an American, published in 1796. Until this time, the cookbooks …
Cornelli
Read by Jael Baldwin
Johanna Spyri
Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…
The Biography of a Prairie Girl
Read by Teresa Bauman
Eleanor Gates
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be c…
Lady Susan
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Doris and the Ankh
Read by Brian Holtz
Brian Holtz
A fantasy adventure for all ages.
Doris, a neurotic and quirky thirteen-year-old, is thrust into an alternate reality where flowers sneeze,…
Emily Dickinson on Death
Read by Libby Gohn
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…
Martha and Cupid
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Julie M. Lippmann
Both prequel and sequel to Martha by the day and Making over Martha. This book fills in details about Martha and her family that devoted rea…
Iris Murdoch The Bell
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Classic Serial: The Bell From - Sun 7th Nov 1999, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Iris Murdoch, dramatised in three parts by …