Best Selling Books by Jean Lee Latham

Describes the discovery and exploration of the river which supplies water and electric power to the Panama Canal, and tells of the problems of construction, development, and operation of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal.

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.

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

When Joan tries to double for her cousin, the spoiled Lucile, she has to run the gauntlet of a ... maid''s all-seeing eyes. And then there''s Lucile''s "man" to be fooled. And then Lucile''s grandmother comes! And Joan meets the domineering old lady without any warning. --

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.

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

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.

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.

Marie helps the Nutcracker defeat the Mouse king in this retelling of the Christmas fairy tale by Hoffmann.

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.

The story of a young boy in 17th century England who lives in Latham House and survives it''s besiegement by Roundhead forces during the English Civil War.

A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.

Conveys the idea that it is only through reading books that one can come to really know and appreciate the characters.

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.

A biography of David Farragut who received his commission in the United States Navy before he was ten and who in 1864 broke the back of the Confederate fleet in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

When his family is moving, Skipper the dog misses a ride in both the truck and the car, and must find his family. A story to be read aloud with children supplying the noise of the dog''s barking.