Family & Relationships
The Rose Garden Husband
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Margaret Widdemer
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
Elsie's Children
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Martha Finley
This book continues the delightful "Elsie Dinsmore" series. Elsie's children, introduced in the previous volume, live life, grow u…
Tenterhooks
Read by Helen Taylor
Ada Leverson
The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', b…
A Christmas Carol (Version 03)
Read by Jeff Robinson
Charles Dickens
Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to cha…
The Birds' Christmas Carol
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day. She has spent all of her 11 years putting others above herself, always finding ways to make their live…
Love at Second Sight
Read by Helen Taylor
Ada Leverson
In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse.…
But Thy Love and Thy Grace
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
Father Finn's beautiful little tale can be read in an hour or so, but it conveys a lesson which ought to be of longer duration. The interest…
The Biography of a Prairie Girl
Read by Teresa Bauman
Eleanor Gates
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be c…
Veronica
Read by Daryl Wor
Johanna Spyri
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertr…
Christie's Old Organ
Read by Esther ben Simonides
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an…
Doctor Thorne (version 2)
Read by Nick Whitley
Anthony Trollope
This is the third book in The Chronicles of Barsetshire, the first two being The Warden and Barchester Towers; however, although some charac…
The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules
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Josephine Turck Baker
Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Read by Ruth Golding
John Leighton
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
A Christmas When The West Was Young
Read by David Wales
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales)
Understood Betsy (version 2)
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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 Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown Ho…
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Margaret Sidney
Polly Pepper loves to tell stories, but there just isn't enough room in the other books to include her stories! So, since "the author h…
The Adventures of Joel Pepper
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Margaret Sidney
The Peppers are a family of three boys, two girls, and Mamsie. They are poor, living in their "Little Brown House", but they alway…
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook
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Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbseys are home from their adventure on the houseboat and now they're off to visit their cousins at Meadow Brook Farm. But they haven'…
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories
Read by David Wales
Lucy Maud Montgomery
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…
Emily of New Moon (Version 2)
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Orphaned Emily Starr is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy…