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Sunday Morning Storyland
Read by Maria Therese
Rev. Wilfrid J. Diamond
A collection of short sermons for children written by a Catholic priest. Each with a story woven in teaches a moral or virtue for that week.…
Lady Susan
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Mary Marston
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George MacDonald
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…
Wanted: A Husband
Read by Deborah Knight
Samuel Hopkins Adams
This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues y…
The Peterkin Papers (version 2)
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Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are …
The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House
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William Hurrell Mallock
A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their "New Republ…
Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall
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Annie Roe Carr
The story of a young girl heading off to boarding school and the adventures that she has there. (Summary by Linda Ciano)
Elsie Venner
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
Read by Jan MacGillivray
Kate Langley Bosher
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…
The Golden Arrow
Read by Anne Erickson
Mary Webb
Deborah, a young girl from a Shropshire farm family, falls so deeply in love with the new preacher that she agrees to live with him as man a…
The Pearl of Orr's Island
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orr’s Island. See the raindrops glistening on the…
Ponnamal, Her Story
Read by MaryAnn
Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Miss Priscilla Hunter, and My Daughter Susan
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Pansy
Two shorter stories in one book. In "Miss Priscilla Hunter," the church has been carrying debt for years. It's an embarrassment, a…
The May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati…
Mary Anerley
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old
Read by Maria Therese
Winfrid Herbst
Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two ro…
The Promised Land
Read by Bridget Gaige
Mary Antin
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found …
Tom Ossington's Ghost
Read by Patti Cunningham
Richard Marsh
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for…
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Edith Œnone Somerville
This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leave…
The Amazing Interlude
Read by MaryAnn
Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby a…