The Underground Railroad
Network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century
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Night
Period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon
Kaddish
Hymn praising God that is recited during Jewish prayer services
Little House in the Big Woods
Autobiographical children’s novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Compleat Angler
Book by Izaak Walton
Beautiful Swimmers
Non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen
Up from Slavery
1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington . The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schoolsmost notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabamato help Black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps
The Double Helix
Autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. It has earned both critical and public praise, along with continuing controversy about credit for the Nobel award and attitudes towards female scientists at the time of the discovery.