Family & Relationships
Eyebright
Read by Lynne T
Susan Coolidge
"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners…
The Art of Kissing
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Will Rossiter
The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle)
Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive
Read by John Greenman
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new…
Pollyanna (version 4)
Read by thestorygirl
Eleanor H. Porter
Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of her comfortable life, even if is she alone in a big house. But then a le…
Mildred Keith
Read by Rachel
Martha Finley
Mildred Keith has a good life in Lansdale, Ohio - family, friends and school keep her happy and busy. But when her parents announce they're …
The Windy Hill
Read by Peter Eastman
Cornelia Meigs
When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …
Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
Grandmother Elsie
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Martha Finley
Change has come to Elsie's family in the 8th book of this delightful series. Her daughter, Violet, marries a naval Captain with three childr…
Ben Pepper
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Margaret Sidney
This book is about Ben Pepper on some adventures! From The Five Little Peppers to Joel Pepper to now Ben Pepper, you'll know everything abou…
The Little Colonel
Read by Maria Therese
Annie Fellows Johnston
The scene of this story is laid in Kentucky. Its heroine is a small girl, who is known as the Little Colonel, on account of her fancied rese…
William Again
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzz…
Heidi (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a 5 year old little Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their h…
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen
Read by Pamela Nagami
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination
Read by Helen Taylor
Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her …
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
The Reason Why
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Robert Kemp Philp
This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and compre…
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion
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Lyndon Orr
"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cle…
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
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Elizabeth Cooper
"I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese l…
Beautiful Joe
Read by Allyson Hester
Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master…
The Fairy of the Snows
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
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…