Family Life Audiobooks

Consequences are set in late Victorian England and follow the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper-class Catholic family in London. Alexandra was raised from birth to enjoy a life of privilege as a wife and mother. Still, she never quite lived up to her or her family's expectations...

The work is subtitled "A Chronicle of American Life During the Reign of George." It describes countries, places, houses, habits, pastimes, studies, religion, work, and travel....

This work depicts the personal recollections of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (actually great-niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, and believed to be the first baby born in the White House. The book focuses on memories of three Christmases—the...

When the two children came to their cousin's house, they immediately realized something was wrong, but no one told them what it was. Her cousin is strangely transformed: tense, busy, barely aware of her presence. They soon discover that the conflict brewing between the hills and farms of the...

This Newbery Award-winning novel follows 14-year-old Dave Mitchell growing up in 1960s New York City. A first-person story about everyday life, youth, love, family strife, and growing up. Oh, and of course, a tomcat named Cat. - Summary by Amanda Rumbaugha...

As I read this book, I had a vision that the land hitherto sunk in a fog of silence suddenly rose to a peak of song. There are countless books written about the South; some good books have been written in the South. This book is Southern. . . . The first part is the primitive and ephemeral world of...

Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious David Faux and his idiot brother, Jacob...

Raising Boys is subtitled "Messages from Yesterday's Boys to Fathers and Mothers About Tomorrow's Men" and offers parents advice for raising boys from infancy to adulthood as good, upstanding men. The fact that boys and girls differ in character, emotionally, and physically is never...

The Bobbsey family has two sets of twins: older Nan and Bert and younger Flossie and Freddie. In The Bobsey Twins In A Great City, a family tours the bustling metropolis of New York City, where they visit exciting sights - and run into trouble along the way....

This is the third book in the Bassetshire Chronicle, the previous two being The Watcher and Barchester Tower; although some characters are mentioned in the first two books, it is not necessary to read it first/ To hear them is to appreciate Dr. Thorne enjoys. It mainly deals with the romance of...