Family & Relationships
Alice Dugdale
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Anthony Trollope
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2)
Read by Andrea Boltz
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by eve…
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove
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Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue were featured in a series of 20 books for young children published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate from 1916-193…
Java Head
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…
Concerning Isabel Carnaby
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of h…
Living With Our Children: A Book of Little Essays for Mothers
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Clara Dillingham Pierson
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 …
Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…
Our Little English Cousin
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Blanche Mcmanus
This delightful little book is another in the "Our Little Cousin" series that offered American children insight into what their yo…
The Haunted Room
Read by Esther ben Simonides
Charlotte Maria Tucker
Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…
De Geschiedenis van Woutertje Pieterse
Read by Carola Janssen
Multatuli
Het verhaal gaat over een dromerige en poëtische Amsterdamse jongen, Wouter Pieterse, die opgroeit in een kleinburgerlijk milieu in de …
That Office Boy
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
A new story by Father Finn! It will be glad news to many to learn that Father Finn has found time from his many duties to write a new story,…
More About Pixie
Read by Judi Mason
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1
Read by Lynne T
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives
Read by Scarlett Martin
William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Mary Louise (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise is a girl who lives with her mother and grandfather. Ever since she was small, every little while they have had to pack up and m…
Nami-ko
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Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …
Mrs. Dymond
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to ca…
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …
Don't Marry
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James W. Donovan
This book doesn't advise against marriage but just offers advice on the errors some people can make who make the wrong choice when entering …
The Heron Nest
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W. Bert Foster
Pleasant family drama set in early 1900's or late 1890's upstate New York. The Herron clan, led by heroic, inventive, handicapped older bro…