Family & Relationships
The Old Peabody Pew
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)
The Little Colonel's House Party
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…
Bits About Home Matters
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Helen Hunt Jackson
This book is a collection of short observations by Helen Hunt Jackson, several with children and parenting as the subject matter. (Summary b…
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)
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Steele Rudd
Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection""The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eig…
The Little Minister
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J. M. Barrie
Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but r…
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace)
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Harriet Lummis Smith
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from…
Elsie at Nantucket
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Martha Finley
Elsie and her family travel to Nantucket Island to spend the summer. The Raymond children and others learn important lessons. After a deligh…
That Mother-in-Law of Mine
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William James Mcglothlin
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out o…
Die Frauen und ihr Beruf
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Luise Büchner
Luise Büchner war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin und Frauenrechtlerin. In ihrem Buch "Die Frauen und ihr Beruf", erstmals ers…
The Home-Maker
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Knapp family seems as though they ought to be happy, yet hidden frustrations are tearing them apart under the surface. As the family bre…
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry
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Samuel Gordon
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
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T. S. Arthur
Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …
The Egoist
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George Meredith
The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…
The Ordeal of Elizabeth
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William James Mcglothlin
An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is orphaned and raised by her spinster aunts. As…
The Giant-Killer - or the Battle Which All Must Fight
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…
めぐりあひ (Meguriai)
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Shuusei Tokuda
友吉は少年です。彼の家族は、お父さん、お母さん、妹そして、赤ん坊です。彼等は、彼が５歳になるまで、お母さんの故郷に住んでいました。そして、東京に移りました。お父さんは大酒飲みです。ついに、お母さんは、赤ん坊を連れて、実家に帰ってしまいました。お父さんと２人の子供は、お父さんの故郷…
Alice Dugdale
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Anthony Trollope
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
The Cinder Pond
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Carroll Watson Rankin
Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The facto…
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by eve…
Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…