Family & Relationships
Fireside Christmas Short Stories
A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection …
Pollyanna's Jewels
In this fourth "Glad Book", Pollyanna returns to her public, no longer the young bride struggling with the problems of housekeepin…
The Story Girl
Carlisle on St. Edwards Island may appear to the outside world to be a quiet, rural farming town, but to a group of 8 teens and tweens, its …
Making over Martha
The sequel to Martha-by-the-day. Despite others' wishes for Martha, that she rise above her station, she remains stoutly Martha, care-giver …
The Green Mirror
Three generations of the Trenchard family, ruled over by the indomitable Mrs Trenchard, live together in comfortable domesticity until Kathe…
Christmas With 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…
Tenterhooks
The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', b…
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.…
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…
Driven Back To Eden
Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his famil…
The Home-Maker
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…
Still
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
A Fair Barbarian
The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her…
Winnie-the-Pooh
A charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the search is on for Eeyo…
Members of the Family
Members of the Family invites listeners into the rugged landscapes of the Wyoming Territory during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. T…
Sons and Lovers
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the child…
Mother Carey’s Chickens
“When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to b…
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…
Under the Lilacs
Under the Lilacs is a tale of friendship and adventure from celebrated author Louisa May Alcott.When sisters Bab and Betty Moss decide to ha…
The Heart of Philura
Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women workin…