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Morgan, Robert

Summary: Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, eighteen-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOR

Burke, James Lee

Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BUR

Twain, Mark

Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Everett, Percival

Summary: When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Twain, Mark

Summary: Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave and of the many people they encounter.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Twain 1991

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