Best Selling Books by Jean Lee Latham

Jimmy McNabe is a young farmer who is still a bachelor. Quite a few people decide to help him find a wife.

A successful detective has spent years taking down master criminals in such a way that a police detective has gotten credit for the case. He is currently planning the downfall of the notorious Lazetto Gang and has summoned a young police detective to his fortress-home. Ballard explains the situation to the young detective, Mac. Mac notices that the butler, Henry, seems very nervous -- especially when Ballard won''t let him leave the room.

Lord Beacham is a houseguest in the Dahm residence, at the invitation of Lola Dahm, who is trying to find an English Lord for her daughter, Florence, to marry. While Lola is marrying off Florence, Lola makes sure Peggy, Lola''s step daughter, is staying with neighbors. Peggy comes home to check for her mail and meets Lord Beacham in the living room. Lord Beacham had been planning on leaving that day, but decides to stay a bit longer to get better acquained with Peggy, whom he finds very interesting.

Christmas is coming and everyone in the Brown family is getting ready. Father just brought home the Santa suit as he promised Mother, and decides to hide it in the toy box, because no one looks at old toys just before Christmas. Mother thinks of another place for the box, and then the children discover the box and must find a place to hide it.

As they approach each dwelling, the animals try to guess from a rhyme who lives there.

A fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Jefferson, the American actor.

Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat, an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by ‘log, lead, and lookout.’ Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the ‘Sailors Bible’), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero. नॅट अर्थात बो-डिचची ही जीवनकहाणी. लहानपणापासूनच गणित विषयाच्या आवडीमुळे त्याच्यात हार्वर्ड विद्यापीठात शिकून पदवी मिळवण्याची इच्छा रूजलेली. पण घरच्या परिस्थितीमुळे त्याला शाळा सोडावी लागते. जहाजावर हिशेबनीस म्हणून काम करताना सागरी प्रवासाच्या अनुभवविश्वाशी नॅटची ओळख होते. या प्रवासात त्यानं मिळवलेलं ज्ञान आणि त्याची अपार इच्छाशक्ती त्याला त्याच्या इच्छित साध्यापर्यंत पोहोचवते. नौकानयन शास्त्रात नॅटनं केलेल्या विलक्षण कामाचा हा एक अर्थी साहित्यिक दस्ताऐवजच होय.

To keep from watching his children starve, a father leads them into a dark forest and leaves them. Little Hop helps them find the way home.