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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society...
5) Tom Sawyer
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
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Huckleberry Finn: The tale begins in a limestone cave near the Mississippi River, where Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are digging for a stolen chest of gold. Once it is found, Huck's drunken father demands to be given the gold, but Huck out-maneuvers his dad ; Connecticut Yankee: After being knocked unconscious in 19th century America, Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's England. He decides to make the most of his stay with the Knights of the Round...
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