The alleys of Eden by ButterlhRobert Olen

Calvary Alley by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan, 1870-1942

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Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

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Accounting with spreadsheets by Alley

Air quality control handbook

Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell, 1868-1946

“…Shorty and the plute -- Rounding up Maggie -- Up against Bentley -- The Tortonis' star act -- Putting Pinckney on the job -- The soaring of the Sagawas -- Rinkey and the phony lamp -- Pinckney and the twins -- A line on Peacock Alley -- Shorty a…”
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Children of the Tenements by Riis, Jacob A., 1849-1914 (Jacob August)

“…The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum.…”
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Lift every voice the history of African-American music / by Peretti, Burton W. (Burton William), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From West Africa to slavery -- Jubilee and Tin Pan Alley : contrasting sounds of freedom -- The rise of ragtime and the blues -- The emergence of jazz -- Jazz at the Philharmonic : the jazz avant-garde and black classical expression -- Gospel, freedom songs, and the struggle for equality -- Black popular music as big business.…”
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Life on the press the popular art and illustrations of George Benjamin Luks / by Gambone, Robert L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- A Luks biography : the context of his graphic art -- An illustrator comes of age -- Life on the press : Philadelphia evening bulletin and New York world -- The gilded age from the other side of the tracks : Hogan's alley -- Politics and sarcasm : Sandburrs and the Verdict -- Into the roaring twenties : Vanity fair and New Yorker -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The speckled monster a historical tale of battling smallpox by Carrell, Jennifer Lee

Table of Contents: “…London -- Two Marys -- Three rebellions -- A destroying angel -- Bidding the world adieu -- A dear little son -- Rosebuds in lily skin -- Boston -- Zabdiel & Jerusha -- Curiosities of the smallpox -- The beauty of the sea -- Caging the demon -- Demonic wings -- Fathers and sons -- Hell upon earth -- Salutation alley -- Prying multitudes -- An infusion of malignant filth -- The castle of misery -- Signs and wonders -- Newgate -- An hour of mourning -- The King's pardon -- Raw head and bloody bones -- Just retribution -- In royal fashion -- Aftermath -- Meetings and partings -- The practice -- The people…”

Billionaire boy by Walliams, David 1971-

Boyd the fighter pilot who changed the art of war by Coram, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Fighter pilot -- Haunted beginnings -- The Big Jock and the Presbyterian -- Fledgling -- K-13 and MiG Alley -- High priest -- Pope John goes severely supersonic -- Rat-racing -- Forty-second Boyd and the tactics manual -- 2. …”

Masterplots II.

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown -- Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Maud Martha / Gwenolyn Brooks -- A measure of time / Rosa Gay -- Meridian / Alice Walker -- The messenger / Charles Wright -- Middle passage / Charles Johnson -- Minty Alley / C. L. R. James -- Miracle's boys / Jacqueline Woodson -- Monster / Walter Dean Myers -- Montgomery's children / Richard Perry -- Moses, man of the mountain / Zora Neal Hurston -- The motion of light in water / Samuel R. …”
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The cat and the city by Bradley, Nick