Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

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12/22/22

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128m

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Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott audiobook.

Genre: romance

If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!

And if you don't like dogs, I don't know just what to advise you to do!

For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and distinctly pro-Christmas, and would like to bring to this little story whatever whiff of fir-balsam I can cajole from the make-believe forest in my typewriter, and every glitter of tinsel, smudge of toy candle, crackle of wrapping paper, that my particular brand of brain and ink can conjure up on a single keyboard! And very large-sized dogs shall romp through every page! And the mercury shiver perpetually in the vicinity of zero! And every foot of earth be crusty-brown and bare with no white snow at all till the very last moment when you'd just about given up hope! And all the heart of the story is very,—oh very young!

For purposes of propriety and general historical authenticity there are of course parents in the story. And one or two other oldish persons. But they all go away just as early in the narrative as I can manage it.—Are obliged to go away!

Yet lest you find in this general combination of circumstances some sinister threat of audacity, let me conventionalize the story at once by opening it at that most conventional of all conventional Christmas-story hours,—the Twilight of Christmas Eve.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:47:45) Chapter 02

(01:24:48) Chapter 03

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Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter ~ Full Audiobook [family]

December 22, 2022

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552m

Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook.

Genre: family

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures...

A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution. Pollyanna's solution brings all her new friends from Boston and her old friends in Beldingsville together. Pollyanna also discovers she has to make a choice. Who will win her heart?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:16) Chapter 02

(00:44:32) Chapter 03

(01:05:13) Chapter 04

(01:21:31) Chapter 05

(01:54:22) Chapter 06

(02:11:17) Chapter 07

(02:26:43) Chapter 08

(02:45:21) Chapter 09

(02:59:59) Chapter 10

(03:20:36) Chapter 11

(03:36:38) Chapter 12

(03:52:20) Chapter 13

(04:16:29) Chapter 14

(04:28:40) Chapter 15

(04:38:57) Chapter 16

(04:58:05) Chapter 17

(05:18:06) Chapter 18

(05:32:50) Chapter 19

(05:49:35) Chapter 20

(06:05:49) Chapter 21

(06:20:36) Chapter 22

(06:38:24) Chapter 23

(06:47:01) Chapter 24

(07:04:48) Chapter 25

(07:21:26) Chapter 26

(07:33:03) Chapter 27

(07:47:36) Chapter 28

(08:02:50) Chapter 29

(08:15:31) Chapter 30

(08:27:12) Chapter 31

(08:50:12) Chapter 32

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Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 22, 2022

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233m

Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a quiet corner of rural England, young Paul Manning begins his first job on a new railway line, commuting between the noise of industry and the calm of his relatives' farm. There he meets Cousin Phillis Holman, a gifted, well-read minister's daughter whose life is shaped by hard work, faith, and the close-knit rhythms of family. Phillis is intelligent and passionate, yet sheltered, and Paul quickly finds himself drawn into the warmth of the Holman household and the subtle tensions that come with a changing world. When an older engineer arrives, bringing wider experience and an easy charm, Paul becomes an uneasy witness to shifting affections and unspoken hopes. As the railway pushes forward, so do questions about duty, love, and the cost of awakening to feelings that cannot be neatly managed. Elizabeth Gaskell paints a tender, realistic portrait of first love, friendship, and moral responsibility, set against the contrast between pastoral tradition and modern progress, where small choices carry lasting emotional weight.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:38) Chapter 2

(00:54:05) Chapter 3

(01:25:47) Chapter 4

(01:51:28) Chapter 5

(02:15:40) Chapter 6

(02:35:20) Chapter 7

(03:08:15) Chapter 8

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