Family & Relationships

Veronica

Read by Daryl Wor


Johanna Spyri


Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertr…

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…

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)

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), …

Doctor Thorne (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


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…

Understood Betsy (version 2)

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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 in the Little Brown Ho…

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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 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…

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'…

Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories

Read by David Wales


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…

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…

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…

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…

Emily of New Moon (Version 2)

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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…

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

Read by Gina Belmonde


Various


A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the V…

Peggy's Trial

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Mary Knight Potter


Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has ta…

The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

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Amelia E. Barr


The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

The Railway Children (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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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 …

Eyebright

Read by Lynne T


Susan Coolidge


"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners…

Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Read by John Greenman


Samuel Smiles


Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new…

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