Family & Relationships

The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams


Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her …

The Blythe Girls: Margy's Queer Inheritance

Read by Cheryl Adam


Laura Lee Hope


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…

Human Toll

Read by Kirsty Leishman


Barbara Baynton


Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…

A Queen

Read by Esther ben Simonides


Ottilie Wildermuth


Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. …

The Portion of Labor

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After t…

The Pussycat Princess

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson


Edward Anthony


This pussycat is out to have some adventurous fun in this enjoyable fairy tale for boys, girls and parents. Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6

Read by Jim Locke


Max Arthur Macauliffe


This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…

The Homesteader

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Oscar Micheaux


The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader in the Dakotas. He meets Agnes who he fa…

Daddy Takes Us Skating

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Howard R. Garis


Hal and Mabel's Daddy knows everything - how a thermometer works, what makes a car go, why we get warm when we run. It's a cold and icy even…

Tommy and Grizel

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J. M. Barrie


This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…

Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins

Read by Jim Locke


W. L. Hunter


This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …

The Wind Boy

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Ethel Cook Eliot


A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…

Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story

Read by Judi Mason


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Impetuous, self-centered Rhoda goes to boarding school and learns hard lessons. This is a story of recklessness and forgiveness. (Summary b…

Charlie and His Kitten Topsy

Read by Linette Geisel


Helen Hill


A darling story of little Charlie and his adventures with cats and kittens and how he became many things. Also how the kitten Topsy, unhapp…

Return to Gone-Away

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Elizabeth Enright


When Portia Blake and her family came back to Gone-Away Lake, it was to move into an old house locked up tightly for nearly half a century. …

Helen in the Editor's Chair

Read by Bellona Times


Ruthe S. Wheeler


After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor of the town newspaper, The Rolfe Herald, and leaves for a rest cure in the…

The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways

Read by Jim Locke


Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris


This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…

Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends

Read by Michelle Hannah


Martha Finley


Book 5 of the story of Mildred Keith by Martha Finley. We join Mildred as she settles into home life as wife and mother. We also see the res…

Father

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S.E. Kiser


A tribute to fatherhood by a little known author, - Summary by David Lawrence

Courage (Dramatic Reading)

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Ruth Ogden


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…

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