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"Skye Fargo is working his way up and down the Mississippi River looking to stop a band of deadly river rats from destroying a valuable riverboat line. But it won't be easy--because the truth behind the attacks leads to a conspiracy with more twists and turns than the mighty Mississippi itself" --
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Riverboat adventures volume 4
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In 1857, while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, thirteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father and tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.
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Dennis Wainwright and Gage Kennon rescue a gypsy woman and travel the Mississippi on a showboat.
They'd fought on different sides in the Civil War, so their friendship was an unlikely alliance. Gage Kennon was a humble and devout Christan man; Dennis Wainwright was the idea man. In their travels Gage saves a Gypsy woman from a terrible accident, and later saves an innocent young woman from being arrested. When their road leads to the grand showboat,...
66) Huckleberry Finn
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Presents Mark Twain's classic novel about the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.
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Life hasn't been easy for Jeanne Bettencourt, a widow approaching thirty and struggling to provide for her eight-year-old daughter. But hope arrives in the form of the Helena Rose, a steamboat she unexpectedly inherits from a distant relative. Jeanne looks forward to a renewed livelihood on the mighty Mississippi, until news comes of another heir, a tough man named Clint Hardin--and a clause in the will that says claimants of the estate must live...
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On the Cristina's trip up the Mississippi, Libby Norstad and her friends meet a talented violinist who seems to have secret. Libby is set on discovering what it is, but when they arrive in St. Paul, his violin is stolen. Libby, Caleb, and Jordan lead the search, but find nothing. Then the fugitive slave Jordan meets his biggest enemy, and takes on a new role in the Underground Railroad.
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John Santana novels volume 4
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"The bodies of young men have been turning up in the Mississippi River for years, their deaths attributed to excessive drinking. But when an Iraq war vet suffering from PTSD is found in the river, St. Paul Homicide Detective John Santana must decide if the young man's death was accidental or the result of something far more sinister. Caught between a reporter trying to rescue his flagging career, an FBI agent with a troubled past, and a beautiful...
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Mark Twain's 1885 novel condemning the institutionalized racism of the pre-Civil War South is among the most celebrated works of American fiction. Twain's story of a runaway boy and an escaped slave's travels on the Mississippi plumbs the essential meaning of freedom.
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In 1846, Isaac Grosh and his wife, Catherine, and their eight children left their native home in Western Pennsylvania to journey to a new life in Northern Illinois where they would farm the virgin prairie. They traveled on canal and two great rivers in a small wooden craft called a flatboat. On the way they were to meet pirates, a runaway slave, a friendly wolf pup, and hear tales of ghosts and Indians and sunken paddleboats. Philip, the eldest...
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