General Fiction
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
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William James Mcglothlin
37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
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L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation is a juvenile novel for girls, written by L. Frank Baum. It is the seventh in the ten volumes in the Aunt Jan…
A Dog of Flanders
Read by Roger Melin
Ouida
"Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world." So begins the poignant story of the two orphans who were to become insepar…
Beautiful Girlhood
Read by Laura Caldwell
Mabel Hale
The transitioning years between girlhood and womanhood are an exciting time for a girl, as well as tumultuous and confusing. Beautiful Girlh…
Robin
Read by Linda Andrus
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI Engli…
Mrs. Craddock
Read by Tony Oliva
W. Somerset Maugham
“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand.He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm finge…
The Little White Bird
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J. M. Barrie
"A children's book, sharp social commentary and sad psychological thriller about a man's search for a sense of belonging. All in one am…
Flood Tide
Read by Roger Melin
Sara Ware Bassett
Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on …
Clover (version 2)
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Susan Coolidge
This fourth book in the "What Katy Did" series focuses on Katy's closest sister, Clover. She ends up in the beautiful mountains of…
Diana
Read by Bridget Gaige
Susan Warner
Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother…
Elves and Heroes
Read by Matthew Reece
Donald Alexander Mackenzie
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the c…
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerfu…
When William Came
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Saki
We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is anothe…
Pocket Island
Read by Roger Melin
Charles Clark Munn
Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a p…
The Figure in the Carpet
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
A Sweet Little Maid
Read by Diana Majlinger
Amy Ella Blanchard
Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and serva…
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Frank Baum
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he ex…
An Old Man's Thought of School
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
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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…