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Author
Series
Water wheel novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
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, departed relative. Jeanne's father had captained a similar vessel and taught her how to pilot a steamer along the banks of Memphis. She's looking forward to a renewed livelihood on the mighty Mississippi.
Author
Series
Water wheel novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Dennis Wainwright and Gage Kennon rescue a gypsy woman and travel the Mississippi on a showboat.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Bigger than life and mightier than most men, Mike Fink is revered by all, and his wandering life along the Mississippi is the stuff of dreams. One of his greatest fans, Nathan Bonable is an orphan who is willing to give his life for the hero who avenged the vicious death of his parents. Together, they outfox Indians, give a violent soldier what he deserves, and face down devious Brits. But the life of a frontiersman can be lonely, and the river waits...
50) Train man
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A terrorist sabotages bridges over the Mississippi as a military train heads west with a shipment of chemical weapons. FBI agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang set out to catch him before disaster strikes. By the author of Zero Option.
Author
Series
Trixie Belden volume 15
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
While on a trip to St. Louis, fourteen-year-old Trixie Belden discovers some mysterious papers in her hotel room and soon realizes that she and her friends are being followed as they cruise in a towboat down the Mississippi River.
56) Mississippi Jack
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.
57) Tom Sawyer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
For famous one-armed war correspondent Paddy Quinn, this is to be his final Civil War assignment: the funeral of the assassinated President Lincoln. Quinn and his new bride Felice are aboard the steamboat Sultana going up the spring-flooded Mississippi River toward Illinois to meet the Funeral Train, when their honeymoon vessel stops at Vicksburg and takes on a pathetic human cargo of 2,000 sick and ragged survivors of the hellish Andersonville prisoner-of-war...
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