Family & Relationships

A Christmas When The West Was Young

by Cyrus Townsend Brady Read by David Wales 4.6
Set against the harsh backdrop of a winter blizzard, A Christmas When The West Was Young weaves a poignant tale of family and resilience. As…

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.…

The Mother

by Pearl Buck and Pearl S. Buck Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
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…

The Girl Scouts at Home

by Katherine Keene Galt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Little Rosanna Horton was a very poor little girl. When I tell you more about her, you will think that was a very odd thing to say.She lived…

Sunshine and Snow

by Harold Bindloss Read by Laurie Banza 4.6
A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two …

What Katy Did at School

by Susan Coolidge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Following Katy's recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to Hillsover, a boarding school. Together with their new friend Rosamond Redd…

The Art of Kissing

by Will Rossiter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Art of Kissing by Will Rossiter explores the rich history and cultural significance of one of humanity's most universal expressions of a…

Christy

by Michael Thomas Cunningham Read by Michael Thomas Cunningham 4.5
A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home. Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of…

The Watsons

by Jane Austen and L. Oulton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Watsons is one of two novels that Jane Austen left unfinished at her death in 1817. The premise of The Watsons was known to Austen’s fam…

Fairhaven

by Henry Grattan Donnelly Read by John 4.7
Fairhaven is the story of a very wealthy couple who lived in New York City in a palatial mansion. They had all the trappings of the super ri…

The Windy Hill

by Cornelia Meigs Read by Peter Eastman 4.1
When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …

Rich and Humble

by Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams Read by Scarlett Martin 4.6
This is the first story in the Woodville collection of tales about the interesting people in Woodville. As the characters grow, they learn …

The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga Read by Tom Denholm 4.2
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…

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…

Martha and Cupid

by Julie M. Lippmann Read by czandra 4.9
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…

Watch and Wait

by William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic Read by Scarlett Martin 4.9
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…

The Older Brother

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.6
Two brothers, one 20 years old, the other almost eighteen, and one younger sister. The older brother has had to delay his primary schooling …

Little Meg's Children

by Hesba Stretton Read by fiddlesticks 4.5
This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' aft…

Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011) 4.4
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company…

Mother

by Kathleen Norris Read by Megan Kunkel 4.7
Mother by Kathleen Norris explores the profound relationship between a daughter and her mother through the lens of domestic life. As Margare…

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