Family & Relationships
The Confessions of a Daddy
The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live q…
Mother
Mother by Kathleen Norris explores the profound relationship between a daughter and her mother through the lens of domestic life. As Margare…
The House by the Medlar Tree
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nut…
The 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 takin…
Pratt Portraits
Sketches of a family's life in a New England suburb at the end of the nineteenth century. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
The Art of Kissing
The Art of Kissing by Will Rossiter explores the rich history and cultural significance of one of humanity's most universal expressions of a…
Watch and Wait
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves bef…
Clear Heart
Carpenters and craft, friendship and rivalry: Wally is building a mansion for a dot-com multimillionaire in the Silicon Valley of Californi…
Pickett's Gap
Rival railroads want to run a rail line through Pickett's Gap. A heartwarming tale of how 13-year-old Dannie Pickett tries to stop them from…
Martha and Cupid
Both prequel and sequel to Martha by the day and Making over Martha. This book fills in details about Martha and her family that devoted rea…
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
In this delightful story ”The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation” by Annie Fellows Johnston the Little Colonel, Lloyd Sherman. together wit…
Odd
He found the word for her, and she read with difficulty, 'Trouble, distress, great affliction.''Do they all mean tribulation?' she asked.'Tr…
Jeremy And Hamlet
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…
The Chateau of Prince Polignac
A short story by one of the masters of Victorian literature, written early in his career. Characteristic of much of his later novels, it is …
Consequences
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
The Daisy Chain
Join the endearing May family in small-town England as each member lives through some pivotal years. How will they face the changes that sha…
The Giant-Killer
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…
Sketches Of The Fair Sex
Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the …
Joy of Life
In the town of Bonneville, in Normandy, everybody seems to be against Pauline Quenu. Mme. Canteau, her son Lazare, all the townspeople! Bu…
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book
A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instr…