The Boxcar Children
Children’s book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner
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The Maples Stories
Collection of short stories by the American author John Updike published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC network with Blythe Danner, Michael Moriarty, Kathryn Walker and Glenn Close
Beautiful Swimmers
Non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen
All the King’s Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
The Dying Earth
Collection of fantasy short fiction by American writer Jack Vance, published by Hillman in 1950. Vance returned to the setting in 1965 and thereafter, making it the first book in the Dying Earth series
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.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne