Family & Relationships
Cunning Workmen
Miss Cora Parkhurst is an irresponsible and flighty Sunday school teacher for a group of young ladies. She has simply no time to prepare the…
The Prairie Wife
GeeGee has fallen, in love that is. Witty, funny, intelligent. Gee Gee's Letters to her friend tell the unscripted story of the adventures i…
Alice Adams
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…
Elsie's Motherhood
Elsie's Motherhood follows the journey of Elsie, a young woman navigating the complexities of life in the South after the Civil War. As her …
Emily Climbs
Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is …
Neighbors
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…
Seven Little Australians
This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is sc…
The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge
The Bobbsey Twins are back at school after summer vacation, but Danny Rugg, the school bully, is up to mischief again--and this time he's tr…
Etiquette in Society
From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered l…
Little Miss Grasshopper
The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…
Margy's Queer Inheritance
Helen, Margy and Rose Blythe, displaced from their family home in Long Island, have struggled to carve out a new life in their tiny apartmen…
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
The second book in The Bobbsey Twins series finds the two sets of twins experiencing life in the country during the first part of their summ…
Rainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley, the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series explores the world of Anne & Gilbert’s six children along with the e…
One Commonplace Day
A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the disc…
The Rose Child
The Rose Child tells the enchanting tale of a young girl living in the picturesque village of Wildbach, whose passion for roses mirrors her …
Understood Betsy
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…
Veronica
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is “adopted” by a neighbour, Gertr…
Eight Cousins
This is the story of Rose Campbell, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts.…
Mothering on Perilous
Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…