Family & Relationships
The Art of Conversation
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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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Veronica
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Johanna Spyri
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertr…
Doctor Thorne
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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…
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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…
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)
Emily of New Moon
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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…
Understood Betsy
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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
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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 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'…
Winnie-the-Pooh
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A. A. Milne
A charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the search is on for Eeyo…
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…
Neighbors
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
The Railway Children
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E. Nesbit
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are suddenly yanked out of their comfortable lives and removed to live in the country with only their mother and …
The Feast of St. Friend
Read by Ruth Golding
Arnold Bennett
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…
Members of the Family
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…