L. M Montgomery

First published in 1923, "Emily of New Moon" is the first of three novels in a series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of famous "Anne of Green Gables" books. The story centers around the life of Emily Starr, a young orphan who is raised by relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis. Montgomery based the character of Emily on her own true-life story and often remarked that her personality and that of the Canadian orphan were very similar....

The Sequel to the Classic Emily of New MoonEmily Byrd Starr must write-burns to write. She writes out her problems and pours out her dreams, spins stories and poems from flashes of insight. Writing sustained her through the loss of her father and sustains her now despite family disapproval.Though she's found a home at New Moon Farm with her aunts and cousin, and dear friends in quiet Blair Water, she knows she needs more if she's ever going to make...

Continues the adventures of Anne Shirley and her friends at college.

The third and final book in Lucy M. Montgomery's "Emily" series of books, "Emily's Quest" was first published in 1927. At the outset of the novel we find a seventeen year old Emily having just graduated from high school as she faces the departure of one of her dearest childhood friends, Teddy Kent, who is preparing to leave for two years to study art. Emily aspires to be a writer but difficulties in getting her writing career going give her apprehension...

Rilla is Anne and Gilbert Blythe's youngest daughter, an excitable 15-year-old who is unaware of how the world works, and is only interested in having fun. But the world is on the brink of a global war, and soon Rilla's family and life are turned upside down, as several of her brothers enlist in the army and are sent to fight overseas. The audiobook follows Rilla's life through the duration of World War I, as she grows up quickly from the responsibilities...

Anne is the mother of five and happy with her life in Ingleside until she worries her husband may not love her anymore, so she's ready to make him fall in love with her all over again.

Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for the summer, they, too, are captivated by the Story Girl. Whether she's leading them on exciting misadventure or narrating timeless stories--from the scary "Tale of the Family Ghost" to the...

Jane Stewart lives with her unhappy mother and stern grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. One day she discovers that the father she had long believed dead is alive and wants her to visit him. What follows is a blissful summer on Prince Edward Island where a dream of bringing her parents together begins to take shape.

Anne of Green Gables, the orphan girl who lives on Prince Edward Island, experiences romance as she begins her years of young adulthood.

The stories are from 1899 to 1928, and there are certain threads that pass through all of them. There's the Christmassy stories- making Christmas cheerful for someone who can't afford it, women-haters or man-haters who become reconciled to the opposite sex in time, old maids getting married, long-lost loves that come back, orphans who find a family member after all (rich, at times), and all sorts of absolutely delicious things.