Family & Relationships
Father
A tribute to fatherhood by a little known author, - Summary by David Lawrence
The Spirit of Christmas
The Spirit of Christmas is a heartwarming collection of short stories and reflections that capture the essence of the holiday season. Writte…
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Lutt…
Winifred
Following the death of his wife Rachel, Rayleigh Stern spent the next six months in therapy group, trying to find ways to cope. Having lost …
Leonora
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
Interventions
A collection of short stories of social commentary, tales of love, mystery, and loss. Many of the stories revolve around children, women, an…
The Goodness of St. Rocque
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
Diana of the Crossways
Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miser…
The Barbadoes Girl
Matilda Sophia Hanson, whose father has recently died in their country of Barbadoes in the West Indies, must live for a time with family fri…
This Path We Share
Why did a shy farm boy from North Dakota and an obstreperous 17 year old from South Dakota meet in Colorado?
How did they forge a relations…
A Family Man
John Builder is a solid, middle-class Englishman. He is very domineering but finds that the women around him are insistent on living their o…
Human Toll
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…
Vassar Studies
Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. I…
Ozzie & Harriet
Ricky and Dave are wondering where their Christmas present from Grandma Nelson is. So Ozzie tells them the story of when Ozzie's father prom…
Lisbeth Longfrock or Sidsel Sidsærkin
Lisbeth Longfrock - (Sidsel Sidsærkin in its original Norwegian) was seen by the author as a book written for adults, telling the stor…
The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair
The Bobbsey Twins go on more exciting adventures, including Freddie and Flossie floating away in a run-away hot air balloon!This is the 15th…
Concerning Genealogies
Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) t…
Anne of Green Gables
In the first book of this classic series, Anne Shirley is an 11 year-old orphan girl who has never had a true home. Through an adoption mist…
Tommy and Grizel
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…
Studies in the Psychology of Sex
The second of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topic of "Sexual Inversion", or homosexuality to give it a m…