Family & Relationships

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by Anne Erickson 4.6
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…

The Girls of Gardenville

by Carroll Watson Rankin Read by Betsie Bush 4.3
Step into the charming world of Gardenville, where a lively group of girls navigates the joys and challenges of adolescence. In "The Gi…

Manners for Men

by Mrs. Humphry Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Many men who go out into the world while still very young to earn their living have few opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of social obs…

Friendship

by Hugh Black Read by MaryAnn 5
The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and go…

The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In the previous book in this series, Lloyd was the maid of honor, but now it will be the Little Colonel's turn to be the bride. But who will…

Mother

by Kathleen Norris Read by Megan Kunkel 4.8
Mother by Kathleen Norris explores the profound relationship between a daughter and her mother through the lens of domestic life. As Margare…

The Trial

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this sequel to "The Daisy Chain," new joys and challenges meet the May family in a new season of life. The older children are a…

A Man of Honor

by George Eggleston Read by Roger Melin 4.5
New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-establishe…

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…

The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West

by Laura Lee Hope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Bert, Nan, Flossie and Freddie go out west, and help solve a strange mystery about an old man.This is the 13th book in the Bobbsey Twin seri…

The Automobile Girls at Newport

by Laura Crane and Laura Dent Crane Read by Daryl Wor 4.5
Published in 1910, the young sisters, Barbara and Mollie Thurston, are being invited by their skilled friend, Ruth Stuart, to go on a real-l…

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by Anne Erickson 4.5
This volume completes the story of Hester and her struggle to find her way in the family she belongs to by birth but not by upbringing. The …

Christian Home Life

by S. S. Pugh Read by InTheDesert 5
The more carefully we consider the law of the family as ordained by God, and view it in relation to the higher necessities of man’s spiritua…

The Pennycomequicks

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by Michael Reuss 4.6
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

The Daisy Chain

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Join the endearing May family in small-town England as each member lives through some pivotal years. How will they face the changes that sha…

The Able McLaughlins

by Margaret Wilson Read by Warren Kati 3.9
The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on th…

Armand Durand

by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Read by Bruce Pirie 4.6
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks t…

Letters to His Children

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…

Return to Gone-Away

by Elizabeth Enright Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
When Portia Blake and her family came back to Gone-Away Lake, it was to move into an old house locked up tightly for nearly half a century. …

To The Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 3.8
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

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