Family & Relationships

The Heart of the Ancient Wood

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Charles G. D. Roberts Read by czandra 4.3
A woman and her daughter take refuge in a cabin deep in the Canadian forest. This is a tale of survival from the land, friendship and love.…

Flower of the Dusk

by Myrtle Reed Read by Daryl Wor 4.2
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by d…

Letters to His Children

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…

Stories of Successful Marriages

by Walter Besant Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of short stories by celebrated authors on the subject of successful marriages. Pieces originally appeared in other publications…

Eight Cousins

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
When frail, sickly Rose Campbell is left an orphan following the death of her father, she moves with her eccentric bachelor uncle to a place…

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams

by Alice Calhoun Haines Read by Colleen McMahon 4.6
The Luck of the Dudley Grahams is the story of the four Graham children and their recently widowed mother, trying to make ends meet by takin…

The Pioneers

by Katharine S. Prichard Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.6
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Dona…

The Fairy of the Snows

by Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J. Read by Maria Therese 4.7
Have you seen a human fairy? Meet Alice Morrow, the dainty fairy of the snows, who will dance her way right into your heart! Get ready to la…

The Automobile Girls at Newport

by Laura Crane and Laura Dent Crane Read by Daryl Wor 4.5
Published in 1910, the young sisters, Barbara and Mollie Thurston, are being invited by their skilled friend, Ruth Stuart, to go on a real-l…

Courage

by Ruth Ogden Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Courage follows the story of Courage, a young 12-year-old orphaned girl, who adapts to to meeting and living with new people. She lives up t…

Return to Gone-Away

by Elizabeth Enright Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
When Portia Blake and her family came back to Gone-Away Lake, it was to move into an old house locked up tightly for nearly half a century. …

Private Sex Advice to Women

by R. B. Armitage Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important fac…

The Little Colonel's House Party

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…

Queen Hildegarde

by Laura E. Howe Richards Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
City gal Hildegarde gets sent to live on a farm and is not happy about it. At first, she’s furious with her parents for 'abandoning' her and…

The Feast of St. Friend

by Arnold Bennett Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
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…

Betty Baird's Golden Year

by Anna Hamlin Weikel Read by Holly Jenson 4.6
It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane…

Clear Heart

by Joe Cottonwood Read by Joe Cottonwood 4.6
Carpenters and craft, friendship and rivalry: Wally is building a mansion for a dot-com multimillionaire in the Silicon Valley of Californi…

Understood Betsy

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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 Whys of Cooking

by Janet McKenzie Hill Read by BettyB 4.3
An entertaining yet informative look at the history of Crisco, its place in the "modern" kitchen, basic recipes and how to set up …

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by Anne Erickson 4.5
This volume completes the story of Hester and her struggle to find her way in the family she belongs to by birth but not by upbringing. The …

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