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By: Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) | |
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![]() Eleven year old Rebecca Rowena Randall travels to Riverboro, Maine, to live with her spinster aunts, Jane and Miranda Sawyer. Her father has been dead for three years and her mother is unable to cope with her brood of seven growing children. Rebecca is being sent to her aunts' farm to try to improve her prospects in life and also ease the family's burden. The aunts had actually wanted her older and more placid sister, Hannah, who is more handy round the house to be sent, but Rebecca's mother sends the dreamy, more imaginative Rebecca instead... | |
![]() This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca’s sojourn in Riverboro. | |
![]() Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by everyone who knows her. This year, she is going to make Christmas extra special for her family and the little Ruggles children who live nearby. (Introduction by Andrea Boltz) | |
![]() The "Goose Girl" is a young and somewhat independent lady who, in fleeing from her lover with whom there had been a "little tiff," became a "paying guest" at poultry farm in a quiet, out-of-the-way Sussex village, in the care of which she participates. From the author of Mother Carey's Chickens, The Bird's Christmas Carol, etc. | |
![]() A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. | |
![]() The story of the mission of two Christmas cards written by a minister’s wife. These cards find their way to two straying sheep from the village fold, who hear through the message in the words, and the little scenes on the cards, the compelling voice of home. There was inspiration and good cheer in the cards, and from them came, in one case reformation, in the other romance. | |
![]() Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. Included are scenes in London and the village of Belvern, containing fanciful sketches of a West-end ball, portraits of domestic originals, etc., characterized by humorous trifling and droll exaggeration of English traits. By the author Mother Carey's Chickens, A Cathedral Courtship, etc. | |
![]() A romantic comedy. A pretty young American girl tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the help of a mad bull. | |
![]() Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from Boston, tells her that her love is ruining Stephen's life. A cute coming-of-age novel. | |
![]() “When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to be still a family, and did not succeed at all. They clung as closely to one another as ever they could, but there was always a gap in the circle where father had been….. The only thing to do was to remember father's pride and justify it, to recall his care for mother and take his place so far as might be; the only thing for all, as the months went on, was to be what mother called the three Bs -- brave, bright, and busy... | |
![]() A charming tale of a small New England congregation preparing for Christmas and the unexpected arrival of a woman's long held hope. - Summary by KevinS | |
![]() When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would hope for. Her cheerful spirit touches the lives of many, but will Rebecca be able to endure Aunt Miranda's stern ways? Cast List: Narrator: TJ Burns Rebecca Randall: JayKitty76 Miranda Sawyer: Christine Lehman Jane Sawyer: Laura Riley Emma Jane Perkins: Jasmin Salma Adam Ladd: Will the Ninja Emily Maxwell: thestorygirl Miss Dearborn: Hannah Mary Jeremiah Cobb:... | |
![]() Journey back to the "brick house" for a further look into the life of young Rebecca Randall during her adventures and scrapes in the small town of Riverboro, Maine. A companion story to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Cast List: Narrator: TJ Burns Rebecca Randall: JayKitty76 Miranda Sawyer: Christine Lehman Jane Sawyer: Laura Riley Emma Jane Perkins: Jasmin Salma Adam Ladd: Will the Ninja Jeremiah Cobb: Greg Giordano Sarah Cobb: Devorah Allen Abijah Flagg: Alan Mapstone Abner Simpson:... |