All the Gears' previous titles in the First North American series have been national bestsellers. Now, People of the River is finally available in mass-market. This gripping saga tells of the Mound Builders of the Mississippi Valley. In a time of many troubles, a warchief and his people have lost all hope. But hope is revived with a young girl learning to Dream of Power.
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transition from slavery to freedom.
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With insightful texts, lavish reproductions, and an extensive bibliography, People of the River promises to be a key resource on this compelling body of work for years to come."--BOOK JACKET.
This is how they talked, this is how they lived, and sometimes, eloquently and tenderly, this is how they died. Unerringly and with great authenticity, Bissell tells the story of the river and why it grips the men who love it.
... by Authorene Wilson Phillips Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer, by Jack A. Batterson Called to Courage: Four Women in Missouri History, by Margot Ford McMillen and Heather Roberson Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More: Missouri's ...
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful.
A man must confront a terrifying evil in this captivating horror novel that’s “as much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz.”* Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy ...
The fourth novel in the highly acclaimed historical mystery series finds freed slave Benjamin January upriver from New Orleans to help his former master, Simon Fourchet, investigate a mystery on one of his plantations. Reprint.
From a major voice in Southern literature comes award-winning author Ron Rash's Saints at the River, a novel about a town divided by the aftermath of a tragic accident--and the woman caught in the middle.
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