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The Man On The Other Side

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Ada Barnett


Ruth never expected to have a house of her own. Raised in an orphanage, she is forced to work for her living. She chooses to work in a book …

A Christmas Miscellany

Read by David Wales


Various


A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

Half a Century

Read by Pamela Nagami


Jane Grey Swisshelm


In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…

Miss Lochinvar

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Marion Ames Taggart


At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure which, will be arriving from the west to l…

Fairy Prince and Other Stories

Read by Nan Dodge


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christ…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

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…

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 …

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. …

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