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Judge Burnhams Daughters by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 13, 2026

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Judge Burnhams Daughters by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Judge Burnham's Daughters, Isabella Alden (writing as Pansy) returns to Ruth Erskine, now Ruth Burnham, as she steps into a life that looks enviable from the outside. Married to a respected judge, living in comfort, and raising a bright young son, Ruth should have everything she once hoped for. Yet her happiest convictions become the very thing that isolates her. Judge Burnham prides himself on status and good order, but he has little patience for Ruth's earnest Christianity, quietly pressuring her to soften what he calls her strict ideas. Worse, Ruth is suddenly responsible for two grown stepdaughters who resist her influence and chase society's pleasures with an independence that threatens both family unity and their spiritual future. Caught between a husband who wants peace at any price and daughters who test every boundary, Ruth must decide what it means to lead with gentleness without surrendering her faith. As misunderstandings multiply and the costs of compromise become clearer, Ruth searches for the courage to let God work through her in a divided household.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:40) Chapter 02

(00:35:00) Chapter 03

(00:54:29) Chapter 04

(01:11:46) Chapter 05

(01:28:54) Chapter 06

(01:47:50) Chapter 07

(02:04:51) Chapter 08

(02:22:13) Chapter 09

(02:39:14) Chapter 10

(02:58:09) Chapter 11

(03:15:38) Chapter 12

(03:33:30) Chapter 13

(03:52:01) Chapter 14

(04:10:27) Chapter 15

(04:27:57) Chapter 16

(04:46:29) Chapter 17

(05:03:40) Chapter 18

(05:22:32) Chapter 19

(05:40:19) Chapter 20

(05:59:07) Chapter 21

(06:17:45) Chapter 22

(06:36:24) Chapter 23

(06:54:17) Chapter 24

(07:11:45) Chapter 25

(07:29:19) Chapter 26

(07:47:59) Chapter 27

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Interrupted by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 13, 2026

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Interrupted by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In this late-19th-century Christian novel, Claire Benedict is the person everyone relies on: steady, capable, and endlessly willing to take on one more task for her church, her friends, and her family. In the Benedict home, Claire's younger sister Dora watches with mixed admiration and worry as Claire's days fill with committees, calls, and carefully laid plans for a useful, orderly future. Then everything is abruptly interrupted. When Mr. Benedict dies without warning, grief is only the beginning - his death leaves the household shaken and nearly penniless, and the dependable life Claire has built is suddenly replaced by urgent questions of work, debt, and what it truly means to trust God when tomorrow is no longer predictable. As Claire steps out into a wider world than she has ever needed to face, she must balance duty with exhaustion, compassion with hard choices, and public expectations with private sorrow. With a cast of neighbors, church members, and would-be advisers, Interrupted traces the costly, everyday courage it takes to keep faith, protect a family, and find purpose when a life of service is tested by loss.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:00) Chapter 02

(00:31:23) Chapter 03

(00:47:38) Chapter 04

(01:03:21) Chapter 05

(01:19:25) Chapter 06

(01:35:26) Chapter 07

(01:51:02) Chapter 08

(02:07:08) Chapter 09

(02:23:34) Chapter 10

(02:41:00) Chapter 11

(02:57:10) Chapter 12

(03:13:00) Chapter 13

(03:31:32) Chapter 14

(03:52:05) Chapter 15

(04:10:42) Chapter 16

(04:30:51) Chapter 17

(04:49:19) Chapter 18

(05:07:35) Chapter 19

(05:25:51) Chapter 20

(05:41:48) Chapter 21

(05:57:47) Chapter 22

(06:14:33) Chapter 23

(06:30:42) Chapter 24

(06:45:42) Chapter 25

(07:02:42) Chapter 26

(07:21:17) Chapter 27

(07:38:11) Chapter 28

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Household Puzzles by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Mar 13, 2026

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Household Puzzles by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Household Puzzles, Pansy (Isabella M. Alden) invites you into the Randolph home, where everyday choices become moral tests with real consequences. After the family's fortunes tighten and a season of loss leaves the household shaken, four sisters and their brother must keep up appearances in a world that judges respectability by clothes, callers, and carefully kept rooms. Helen Randolph, the eldest, is determined to claim the life she thinks society promises, even when pride and purchases on credit threaten to pull everyone under. Her practical sister Maria fights back with work, ingenuity, and a fierce desire to care for their ailing father, turning domestic skill into hard-earned income. Meanwhile, Tom Randolph faces pressures of his own as employment and companionship tug him toward places where temptation is close at hand. As courtship, churchgoing, debts, and daily meals collide, the Randolphs discover that the hardest puzzles are not in balancing a budget, but in deciding what matters most: comfort or character, reputation or integrity, talk about faith or faith lived at home.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:50) Chapter 02

(00:28:06) Chapter 03

(00:42:48) Chapter 04

(00:59:49) Chapter 05

(01:13:33) Chapter 06

(01:31:51) Chapter 07

(01:48:31) Chapter 08

(02:03:33) Chapter 09

(02:19:40) Chapter 10

(02:36:58) Chapter 11

(02:53:27) Chapter 12

(03:10:57) Chapter 13

(03:29:21) Chapter 14

(03:47:00) Chapter 15

(04:05:28) Chapter 16

(04:24:43) Chapter 17

(04:43:38) Chapter 18

(05:02:58) Chapter 19

(05:19:14) Chapter 20

(05:38:16) Chapter 21

(05:56:19) Chapter 22

(06:13:11) Chapter 23

(06:30:13) Chapter 24

(06:48:06) Chapter 25

(07:07:18) Chapter 26

(07:24:42) Chapter 27

(07:40:48) Chapter 28

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Her Associate Members by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 13, 2026

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Her Associate Members by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Her Associate Members, Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden) returns to the spirited Christian worker once known as Chrissy Hollister. Now married to the gentle, principled Stuart Holmes, Chrissy has followed doctors' orders south to Florida, where Stuart can recover from a severe illness in warm air and quiet surroundings. But while she pours herself into nursing him, Chrissy wrestles with a new kind of discouragement: away from her familiar Christian Endeavor circle, what work can she possibly do for God - and should she even try after a recent, humiliating failure to help a group of young people? Then, in an ordinary boarding house and along sunlit streets, Chrissy begins to notice the people she had resolved to ignore: a neglected servant girl called Happy, a coarse and troubled young man named Liph Stetson, a worn landlady, and a grim woman whose marriage hides a painful secret. Chrissy's answer is both daring and simple. If she is an active member, why not treat these hurting souls as her associate members - and seek them one by one through practical kindness, courageous conversation, and everyday faithfulness?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:36) Chapter 02

(00:41:32) Chapter 03

(01:01:12) Chapter 04

(01:21:25) Chapter 05

(01:39:33) Chapter 06

(01:57:36) Chapter 07

(02:16:14) Chapter 08

(02:34:59) Chapter 09

(02:54:06) Chapter 10

(03:13:30) Chapter 11

(03:33:17) Chapter 12

(03:50:29) Chapter 13

(04:09:53) Chapter 14

(04:28:29) Chapter 15

(04:46:18) Chapter 16

(05:04:22) Chapter 17

(05:23:07) Chapter 18

(05:40:08) Chapter 19

(06:00:04) Chapter 20

(06:20:00) Chapter 21

(06:39:39) Chapter 22

(06:57:21) Chapter 23

(07:16:43) Chapter 24

(07:36:25) Chapter 25

(07:54:21) Chapter 26

(08:12:45) Chapter 27

(08:34:45) Chapter 28

(08:59:05) Chapter 29

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A Hedge Fence by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 13, 2026

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A Hedge Fence by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In A Hedge Fence, Pansy (Isabella Alden) offers a warm, month-by-month collection of twelve connected stories that show how a single Bible verse, remembered at the right moment, can steady a young heart. Most of the book unfolds through lively letters from Frank Hudson, a boy who means well but keeps tumbling into trouble, to his cousin Renie. When an older friend challenges Frank to learn one verse each month, Frank begins to picture those words as a kind of hedge fence around his choices: not a prison, but a boundary that makes wrongdoing harder to slip into unnoticed and makes the right path easier to recognize. As school, friendships, and everyday temptations test him, Frank learns that real courage can look like stopping, thinking, and choosing differently than he first wants. In the final chapters, the focus shifts to two more young people, Annie and David, as they face their own small-but-important crossroads and discover how Scripture can speak into ordinary life. Gentle, practical, and deeply character-centered, this book explores conscience, self-control, and the slow work of growing wiser.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:47) Chapter 02

(00:17:41) Chapter 03

(00:26:10) Chapter 04

(00:33:55) Chapter 05

(00:40:54) Chapter 06

(00:47:40) Chapter 07

(00:57:22) Chapter 08

(01:03:14) Chapter 09

(01:11:00) Chapter 10

(01:21:18) Chapter 11

(01:31:35) Chapter 12

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The Hall in the Grove by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 12, 2026

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The Hall in the Grove by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

Set against the bustling summer grounds of Chautauqua, The Hall in the Grove follows a small-town experiment in adult education that quietly reshapes a whole community. Back in Centreville, anxious mother Mrs. Fenton forms a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle to keep pace with her bright young son, Robert, and to prove to herself that learning is not reserved for the privileged. What begins as a self-improvement plan soon draws in people who would never normally share a table: Caroline Raynor, an underestimated housemaid with a keen mind; the Ward brothers, Jim and Joe, whose aimless swagger has become a family shame; and Paul Adams, a charming loafer who has never been asked to take his own gifts seriously. When the group finally travels to Chautauqua itself, lectures, readings, and earnest conversations in the famous hall among the trees become a mirror for their private doubts. As friendships form across class lines and faith is tested by pride, fear, and habit, each character must decide what to do with new ideas that demand real change at home.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:45) Chapter 02

(00:33:49) Chapter 03

(00:59:55) Chapter 04

(01:19:56) Chapter 05

(01:45:02) Chapter 06

(02:11:42) Chapter 07

(02:30:57) Chapter 08

(02:54:00) Chapter 09

(03:11:05) Chapter 10

(03:31:50) Chapter 11

(03:50:59) Chapter 12

(04:06:05) Chapter 13

(04:30:58) Chapter 14

(04:50:29) Chapter 15

(05:20:03) Chapter 16

(05:38:42) Chapter 17

(05:55:39) Chapter 18

(06:17:44) Chapter 19

(06:32:06) Chapter 20

(06:51:26) Chapter 21

(07:11:18) Chapter 22

(07:40:04) Chapter 23

(08:09:32) Chapter 24

(08:30:35) Chapter 25

(08:52:04) Chapter 26

(09:10:04) Chapter 27

(09:31:36) Chapter 28

(09:48:18) Chapter 29

(10:06:25) Chapter 30

(10:25:42) Chapter 31

(10:47:45) Chapter 32

(11:00:38) Chapter 33

(11:11:39) Chapter 34

(11:29:59) Chapter 35

(11:51:16) Chapter 36

(12:13:44) Chapter 37

(12:31:31) Chapter 38

(12:47:46) Chapter 39

(13:04:19) Chapter 40

(13:33:42) Chapter 41

(13:56:04) Chapter 42

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Grandpas Darlings by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 12, 2026

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Grandpas Darlings by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Grandpa's Darlings, Isabella M. Alden (writing as Pansy) invites listeners into a lively, affectionate household where everyday moments become unforgettable lessons. The narrator, 'Auntie Belle,' insists these episodes are true, and she tells them with the warm humor of an aunt who is both amused and gently humbled by the children in her care. At the center are bright, earnest little Minie and her visiting cousin Gracie, along with Grandpa and Grandma, Mama and Papa, and Auntie Dule (Julia) - a circle of adults who must often practice the very virtues they hope to teach. Through a series of short, connected vignettes - trips to church, shopping adventures, birthday plans, tempting secrets, tricky promises, and a child's sincere attempts to understand prayer - small misunderstandings and childish logic spark conversations that reach far beyond the nursery. Grandpa, in particular, has a gift for turning mischief and mistakes into patience, kindness, and a clearer view of faith. Gentle, domestic, and deeply Christian in spirit, this is a classic story of family love and the slow work of learning to live what you believe.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:37) Chapter 02

(00:25:20) Chapter 03

(00:38:55) Chapter 04

(00:51:15) Chapter 05

(01:06:29) Chapter 06

(01:18:47) Chapter 07

(01:31:48) Chapter 08

(01:45:54) Chapter 09

(02:01:17) Chapter 10

(02:17:12) Chapter 11

(02:25:40) Chapter 12

(02:37:52) Chapter 13

(02:50:52) Chapter 14

(03:05:22) Chapter 15

(03:19:55) Chapter 16

(03:34:22) Chapter 17

(03:48:25) Chapter 18

(04:01:06) Chapter 19

(04:15:12) Chapter 20

(04:31:30) Chapter 21

(04:46:11) Chapter 22

(04:56:48) Chapter 23

(05:06:00) Chapter 24

(05:19:51) Chapter 25

(05:30:15) Chapter 26

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Grandmas Miracles; or, Stories Told at Six oClock in the Evening by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 12, 2026

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Grandmas Miracles; or, Stories Told at Six oClock in the Evening by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Grandmas Miracles; or, Stories Told at Six oClock in the Evening, Isabella Alden, writing as Pansy, invites listeners into the warm glow of a household where the day ends with a cherished ritual: children gathering to hear Grandmas stories. Each evening at six, Grandma draws her young audience close and tells true-to-life tales of ordinary people facing hard choices, sudden needs, and quiet disappointments - and of the surprising ways help arrives when faith is tested. Through these connected story-hours, the children begin to notice patterns: prayers offered in uncertainty, small acts of courage and kindness, and the steady hand of providence working through neighbors, family, and unexpected messengers. As questions rise - What is a miracle? How do you trust when answers do not come quickly? - Grandma challenges her listeners to look beyond spectacle and recognize the sacred in everyday life. Gentle, earnest, and deeply comforting, this book blends family storytelling with spiritual reflection, offering moral lessons that feel personal and practical, and reminding readers that hope can be renewed at the close of every day.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:03) Chapter 02

(00:28:43) Chapter 03

(00:38:09) Chapter 04

(00:49:25) Chapter 05

(00:59:33) Chapter 06

(01:10:27) Chapter 07

(01:21:16) Chapter 08

(01:32:02) Chapter 09

(01:42:38) Chapter 10

(01:52:52) Chapter 11

(02:03:45) Chapter 12

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Grace Holbrook, and Other Stories of Endeavor and Experience by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 12, 2026

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Grace Holbrook, and Other Stories of Endeavor and Experience by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In this uplifting collection of ten short stories, beloved Christian novelist Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden) follows a series of girls and young women as everyday choices become moments of testing, growth, and quiet courage. In the title tale, 'Grace Holbrook, the Martyr,' Grace must sort out the difference between true self-sacrifice and the kind of attention-seeking 'martyrdom' that can hide stubborn pride. Other heroines face their own dilemmas: Celia Stuart is entrusted with a responsibility that demands honesty and steadiness; 'Poor Mamie' learns what happens when small compromises pile up; and Katie discovers what it really means to 'endeavor' when doing right is inconvenient. Along the way, the stories move through schoolrooms, homes, and community gatherings, including a 'Christian Endeavor Picnic,' a glimpse of possible futures, and the demanding call of service in 'The Trained Nurse.' Each episode is short, vivid, and practical, blending warm character sketches with a clear spiritual focus on integrity, kindness, and faithful duty, even when no one is watching.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:07) Chapter 02

(00:19:43) Chapter 03

(00:36:42) Chapter 04

(00:39:51) Chapter 05

(00:53:25) Chapter 06

(01:09:03) Chapter 07

(01:25:15) Chapter 08

(01:42:41) Chapter 09

(01:52:30) Chapter 10

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Four Mothers at Chautauqua by Pansy ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Mar 12, 2026

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Four Mothers at Chautauqua by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

Years after a carefree summer trip to the Chautauqua Assembly changed their lives, four old friends return at last - no longer the impulsive girls of earlier days, but women shaped by marriage, sorrow, and the daily work of raising children. For Ruth, Eurie, Flossy, and Marion, Chautauqua is more than a vacation spot: it is a place where faith first became real, and where lifelong friendship was forged. Now they bring their families to the lakeside grounds, hoping the next generation will catch the same vision. But not everyone arrives with spiritual questions. Burnham Roberts, polished and charming, treats the season as a pleasant diversion, while bold, independent Eureka Harrison expects nothing but amusement. As lectures, music, vespers, and quiet conversations fill the days, the mothers find themselves confronting a harder task than any youthful self-improvement plan: loving their children wisely, speaking truth without pushing it, and trusting God with outcomes they cannot control. Warm, observant, and gently challenging, Pansy's novel explores legacy, conscience, and the slow, surprising ways hearts can change.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:04) Chapter 01

(00:20:38) Chapter 02

(00:37:41) Chapter 03

(00:53:57) Chapter 04

(01:09:11) Chapter 05

(01:26:08) Chapter 06

(01:43:00) Chapter 07

(01:59:36) Chapter 08

(02:18:51) Chapter 09

(02:36:17) Chapter 10

(02:55:20) Chapter 11

(03:12:53) Chapter 12

(03:30:35) Chapter 13

(03:48:25) Chapter 14

(04:04:27) Chapter 15

(04:21:15) Chapter 16

(04:38:42) Chapter 17

(04:55:59) Chapter 18

(05:12:11) Chapter 19

(05:27:36) Chapter 20

(05:45:14) Chapter 21

(06:02:06) Chapter 22

(06:18:33) Chapter 23

(06:35:47) Chapter 24

(06:53:23) Chapter 25

(07:12:05) Chapter 26

(07:32:46) Chapter 27

(07:49:53) Chapter 28

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