Family Life - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Biography of a Prairie Girl - Eleanor Gates
The Biography of a Prairie Girl - Eleanor Gates
- Author: Eleanor Gates
- Genre: Family Life
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be caught up with the 'little girl', living with her as she grows up far away from any large city. Very well...
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / General Fiction
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best β keep it as it ought to be kept." says Sir...
One Commonplace Day - Pansy
One Commonplace Day - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
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 discussions, actions, and attitudes from that picnic reverberate through the lives of many people. What are the...
Veronica - Johanna Spyri
Veronica - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Family Life
Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having lost her own mother, is βadoptedβ by a neighbour, Gertrude, who has a son of her own. The son, Dietrich, is learning how to become a saddler as his father before...
A Christmas When The West Was Young - Cyrus Townsend Brady
A Christmas When The West Was Young - Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Genre: Family Life / Westerns
Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales )...
The Reason Why - Robert Kemp Philp
The Reason Why - Robert Kemp Philp
- Author: Robert Kemp Philp
- Genre: Family Life / *Non-fiction / Education
This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of Nature, relating to air, animals,...
The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading) - Eliza Armstrong
The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading) - Eliza Armstrong
- Author: Eliza Armstrong
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Humorous Fiction
The Teacup Club (For the Advancement of Woman) is formed when Dorothy decides to found an intellectual club of her own - to teach her fiance a lesson! The clubβs discussion topics (official) includes Theosophy, Politics and Women in Legislature. The...
Lodore - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Literary Fiction
The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter find themselves without...
Old Santeclaus - Clement Clarke Moore
Old Santeclaus - Clement Clarke Moore
- Author: Clement Clarke Moore
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Poetry
Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 β July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is the author of...
Diana of the Crossways - George Meredith
Diana of the Crossways - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love, happiness and fulfillment. - Summary by...
Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant - Pansy
Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
The Bryant family - widowed Mrs. Bryant and her children Benjamin, Caroline ("Line" for short), and little Daisy - is on the thin edge of poverty due to debt incurred when Mr. Bryant was alive. We follow the family, especially Ben and Daisy, as they...
The Rose Garden Husband - Margaret Widdemer
The Rose Garden Husband - Margaret Widdemer
- Author: Margaret Widdemer
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old children's librarian. She is good at her job. Yet when she sees a girl from her hometown with two children, she...
Tenterhooks - Ada Leverson
Tenterhooks - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', but Bruce Ottley is as difficult and irksome as ever. His beautiful wife Edith continues to gently manage his...
The Portion of Labor - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Portion of Labor - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
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 the mill shuts down, her family struggles to make ends meet, but as the years pass, Ellen grows up into a...
The Cinder Pond - Carroll Watson Rankin
The Cinder Pond - Carroll Watson Rankin
- Author: Carroll Watson Rankin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life / General
Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between the dock and the shore became...
The Luck of the Dudley Grahams - Alice Calhoun Haines
The Luck of the Dudley Grahams - Alice Calhoun Haines
- Author: Alice Calhoun Haines
- Genre: Family Life / General
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 Elizabeth to her diary. She chronicles...
Love at Second Sight - Ada Leverson
Love at Second Sight - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse. Thanks to Edith's forgiving and patient ways they have put their difficulties behind them, and their lives...
Little Fishers and Their Nets - Pansy
Little Fishers and Their Nets - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Christian Fiction
Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has given up, and her stepbrother is...
Consequences - E. M. Delafield
Consequences - E. M. Delafield
- Author: E. M. Delafield
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
Set in late Victorian England, βConsequencesβ follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. Raised from birth for the privileged life of a wife and mother, Alexandra never quite fits in with her or her...
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
- Author: John Leighton
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical ability but not blessed in looks or...
Almond-Blossom - Olive Wadsley
Almond-Blossom - Olive Wadsley
- Author: Olive Wadsley
- Genre: Family Life
At the beginning of the story, Tony and Fay had lost a child. One day, Tony saves a little girl, Doro, from drowning. He and Fay end up adopting Doro. Soon after this, Fay discovers that she is with-child. She gives birth to a son, Rex, but tragedy...
Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Family Life
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's eye, and disposed to be kind. Of course there are things missing: she does not remember her mother who died...
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie...
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a book about growing up and...
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Family Life / Family
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Katy can't do anything right. Her Aunt Izzie always scolds her, so one day Katy decides to ignore her aunt's...
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium - Walter Alden Dyer
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Family Life / Nature & Animal Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod hosts of war have marched. Beside her peaceful waters the sons of God have spilled each otherβs blood. Beneath her...
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kate is to marry: handsome & respected David Spafford. But on the eve of the wedding, Kate elopes with...
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
- Author: Emilie Maceroni
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
Magic Words is a Victorian tale of a community and how a few women bring a special kind of Christmas magic to the community-- Magic that can heal wounded hearts. (Introduction by Sean McGaughey)...
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1900 onward
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 of the household has met her...
The Chimes - Charles Dickens
The Chimes - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the "Hungry Forties", a time of social and political unrest, and...
Aunt Crete's Emancipation - Grace Livingston Hill
Aunt Crete's Emancipation - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life
Aunt Lucretia β 'Crete' to her family β is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as their unpaid and unappreciated domestic servant. When they leave town in order to avoid the unexpected visit...
Plain Living - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
Plain Living - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Author: Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Family Life
Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain living'. Fellow fans of Jon Cleary's "The Sundowners", set a generation later, may enjoy this. - Summary by...
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways - Charles McLean Andrews
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Family Life / Business & Economics / Education
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....
Fairy Prince and Other Stories - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Fairy Prince and Other Stories - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life
A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. βYou don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course we understand all about...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the...
Domestic Bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Domestic Bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
"If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen Barnet." "Of course the inevitable...
Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life
Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved characters since the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908. In this dramatic reading, Librivox readers...
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages - Various
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the victorian marriage. - Summary by Gina Belmonde...
Driven Back To Eden - Edward P. Roe
Driven Back To Eden - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
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. - Summary by David Gore...
