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Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

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Margery Watson - Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There they meet some friendly locals, and… the...

TriciaG 4 hours 3 minutes

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Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story

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

Judi Mason 7 hours 38 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - 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 sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill...

Simon Evers 3 hours 46 minutes

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Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways

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Charles Morris - Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways

This work according to the subtitle is «a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges.» It describes land, locales, houses, habits, diversions, learning, religion, labor, and travel.

Jim Locke 4 hours 50 minutes Chronicles of America Series

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Sons of Fire

«He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local...

Jim Locke 13 hours 44 minutes

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Living With Our Children: A Book of Little Essays for Mothers

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Clara Dillingham Pierson - Living With Our Children: A Book of Little Essays for Mothers

This book is a collection of small essays to help parents better understand their children and offer help to parents in the task of raising them. To quote from the preface, “It is hoped that the very simplicity and...

SweetHome 5 hours 4 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier - Inheritance

«As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the...

Jim Locke 22 hours 45 minutes

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Kahlil Gibran - Prophet

The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his words of wisdom on many sides of the human condition, and he addresses them in...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 29 minutes

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Grace Livingston Hill - Unwilling Guest

A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter is not so sure how to deal with this unpleasant circumstance. The young man...

LikeManyWaters 8 hours 59 minutes

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Edward P. Roe - 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 family to the country, where they live off the land and breathe fresh air. —...

DavidG 7 hours 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Fairy Prince and Other Stories

A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. «It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh,...

Nan Dodge 4 hours 27 minutes

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Alice Calhoun Haines - Luck of the Dudley Grahams

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams is the story of the four Graham children and their recently widowed mother, trying to make ends meet by taking boarders into their somewhat eccentric home, as told by 17-year-old...

Colleen McMahon 4 hours 27 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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