Mark Twain
11) James: a novel
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. 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...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens – who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain - was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. He spent his childhood in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri, leaving home in 1853. His brief career as a riverboat pilot was ended by the Civil War, in which he served as a Confederate irregular. He then traveled to Nevada to strike it rich, and when that plan failed went on to achieve renown as a deft humorist, masterful...
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The Racc Pack volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2025]
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English
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"The Bins family are back and hungrier than ever. When they learn about the massive pet expo in the heart of the city, they expect to find heaps of free samples, not Dusty's celebrity doppelgänger! The Binses' heads fill with questions: How did he get so famous? Why do humans love him? But most important, how does the Race Pack get in on it?! Prince the Raccoon is influential, pampered, and RICH! But Prince wants to know just how wild life can be...
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Ten Speed Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Big Jim and the White Boy is a radical retelling of this American classic, centering the experiences of Jim, an enslaved Black man in search of his kidnapped wife and children, along with his cheeky sidekick, Huckleberry Finn. Jim and Huck's high-stakes adventures take them on an epic voyage across the antebellum South and Midwest, through Confederate war camps and runaway safe houses, into Old West standoffs, and on the road as covert Underground...



