Family & Relationships

The Little Colonel at Boarding-School

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …

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…

Private Sex Advice to Women

by R. B. Armitage Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important fac…

Flower of the Dusk

by Myrtle Reed Read by Daryl Wor 4.2
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by d…

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…

Civil War Women

by Various Read by David Wales 4
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…

Pollyanna's Debt of Honor

by Harriet Lummis Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the fifth Pollyanna Glad Book. Pollyanna is kept busy teaching her famous "glad game" to others and thus spreading her own…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Inheritance

by Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier Read by Jim Locke 4
"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…

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…

Christmas Eve At Swamp's End

by Norman Duncan Read by David Wales 4.2
In Christmas Eve At Swamp's End, Norman Duncan weaves a heartwarming narrative that captures the essence of the holiday spirit through the 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 …

The Little Colonel's Holidays

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking &quo…

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…

Courage

by Ruth Ogden Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Courage follows the story of Courage, a young 12-year-old orphaned girl, who adapts to to meeting and living with new people. She lives up t…

Christy

by Michael Thomas Cunningham Read by Michael Thomas Cunningham 4.4
A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home. Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of…

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