North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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Overruled by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

Overruled by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In this sequel to Making Fate, Marjorie Edmonds returns home after a summer away changed by disappointment, reflection, and a deepening Christian faith. Back in her familiar town, she hopes for peace and a clearer future, but ordinary ...  Show more

One Commonplace Day by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

One Commonplace Day by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In this late-19th-century Christian novel, what begins as an ordinary town picnic on an October afternoon becomes the turning point in several lives. A visiting temperance lecturer, delayed by a missed train, joins a small c ...  Show more

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