Family & Relationships
So Big
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Edna Ferber
The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…
The Christmas Child
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Hesba Stretton
A short sweet, yet sad, Christmas story about forgiveness, but especially about loving others for who they are and not for who we want them …
Her Benny
Read by Larraine Paquette
Silas Hocking
A very heart touching story about two homeless children, a brother and sister, living on the streets of Liverpool, England during Victorian …
Jack and Jill (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Louisa May Alcott
When Jack and Jill tumble off their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months, pu…
William -- The Fourth
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Richmal Crompton
The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …
The Little Colonel's Hero
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Annie Fellows Johnston
In this sixth volume of “The Little Colonel Series” for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to …
Fern's Hollow
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Hesba Stretton
Ferns Hollow is the sad, but sweet story of a young boy who tragically loses his parents and has to care for his two sisters and crazed gran…
The House by the Medlar Tree
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Giovanni Verga
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…
The Little Colonel's Holidays
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Annie Fellows Johnston
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking &quo…
The Friendship of Anne: A Story
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Ellen Douglas Deland
This is the story of Sydney Stuart who is sent to a girls' boarding school (to her disgust) with all its difficulties and adventures. Sydney…
Cane
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Jean Toomer
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…
Social Life in England 1750-1850
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F. J. Foakes-Jackson
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
Palmetto Leaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they…
Sons of Fire
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…
The Mother
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Pearl Buck and Pearl S. Buck
Life is difficult for The Mother, with a household of husband and children, when her crone of a mother-in-law comes to live with them. It is…
Manners for Men
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Mrs. Humphry
Many men who go out into the world while still very young to earn their living have few opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of social obs…
Armand Durand
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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks t…
The Love Affairs of Pixie
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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
This is the third book of the Pixie O’Shaughnessy trilogy. In a story of love lost and found, Pixie matures from an inexperienced young lass…
The Blythe Girls: Helen, Margy and Rose
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Laura Lee Hope
The Blythe sisters, orphaned and near-penniless are completely on their own. With the last of their resources, they move from their lovely b…
Santa Claus's Partner
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Thomas Nelson Page
Livingstone has reached a pinnacle in his life. He is finally worth 7 figures, yet his bottom line requires that he cut back on charities th…