Family & Relationships
A Christmas Miscellany
A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales
The Chronicles of America
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
The Gingerbread Boy and Joyful Jingle Play Stories
Short funny stories for children that not only are fun to read and listen to, but have neat rhymes in each story. So if you like a bit of p…
This Path We Share
Why did a shy farm boy from North Dakota and an obstreperous 17 year old from South Dakota meet in Colorado?
How did they forge a relations…
The Theory of Psychoanalysis
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…
Petticoat Government
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
The Whole Family
A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage…
The Haunted Room
Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vib…
The Friendship of Anne
This is the story of Sydney Stuart who is sent to a girls' boarding school (to her disgust) with all its difficulties and adventures. Sydney…
Petticoat Government
The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close of Westhampton. - Summary by Mark Leder
A Christmas Carol
Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to cha…
Daddy Takes Us Skating
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…
Little Prudy's Sister Susy
Little Prudy’s Sister Suzy is the second book in the Little Prudy series. It follows three sisters, aged 3 to 8, through the Christmas break…
The Sikh Religion
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…
Domestic Bliss
This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) - Summary by David Lawrence
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle
This book was written about 150 years ahead of its time. It tells the story of Emmeline Mobwray who grows up in a dysfunctional family and h…
The Story Of A Needle
A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about family life and siblings. The narration from the needle tells how he was made …
A Long Way from Disney
In the second season of A Long Way from Disney, an older (and perhaps wiser) Adam Berkman deals with his own series of relationships, love, …
A Hive of Busy Bees
In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma and Grandpa's farm. They have great fun, and every night Grandma tells them a story about…
Woman and Labour
I should like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us—“You will look back at us with astonishment! You will …