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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
811.5 H8939c
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811.5 H8939c
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
811.5 H8939c
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811.5 H8939c
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.5 H8939c
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811.5 H8939c
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ellison
1 available
Fiction Ellison
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ellison
1 available
Fiction Ellison
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ellison
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Fiction Ellison
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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Thompson Lane - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an American Black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a Black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly...
4) Native son
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wright
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Fiction Wright
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wright
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Fiction Wright
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Hadley Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wright
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Fiction Wright
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Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Wright
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CD AUDIO Fiction Wright
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
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Fiction Johnson
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
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Fiction Johnson
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
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Fiction Johnson
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It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning...
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 L884z
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813.54 L884z
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 L884z
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813.54 L884z
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 L884z
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813.54 L884z
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"ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her... Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page."--Off Our Backs.
7) Acolytes
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 G512a
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811.54 G512a
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Looby - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 G512a
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811.54 G512a
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 G512a
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811.54 G512a
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A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more inspired by love, celebration, memories and even nostalgia. She aims her intimate and sparing words at family and friends, the deaths of heroes and friends, favorite meals and candy, nature, libraries, and theatre. But in between, the deep and edgy conscience that has defined her for decades shines through when she writes about Rosa
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B K452w
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B K452w
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Bordeaux - Adult Biography
B K452w
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B K452w
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Donelson - Adult Biography
B K452w
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B K452w
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A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes.
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Great cities trilogy volume 1
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jemisin
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Fiction Jemisin
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jemisin
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Fiction Jemisin
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jemisin
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Fiction Jemisin
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
10) Kindred
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Butler
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Fiction Butler
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Butler
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Fiction Butler
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Butler
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Fiction Butler
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Dana, a young modern black woman is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him, as he will father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. After the first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect...
11) Americanah
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Adichie
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Fiction Adichie
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Adichie
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Fiction Adichie
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Adichie
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Fiction Adichie
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Adichie
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CD AUDIO Fiction Adichie
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Adichie
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CD AUDIO Fiction Adichie
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Adichie
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CD AUDIO Fiction Adichie
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 J55w
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305.896 J55w
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Hadley Park - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 J55w
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305.896 J55w
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An acclaimed cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
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In her collection of linked essays, Jerkins takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be"-- to live as, to exist as-- a black woman today? Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Fiction Whitehe
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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Edgehill - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
2 available
Book Club in a Bag
2 available
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
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Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
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Fiction Whitehe Large Type
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...
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East - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 I653w
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814.6 I653w
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Edgehill - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 I653w
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814.6 I653w
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 I653w
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814.6 I653w
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"Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason...
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The author, the first Black executive secretary of the NAACP, offers a fictionalized account of his life and looks at the consequences of denying one's heritage.
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The author, the first Black executive secretary of the NAACP, offers a fictionalized account of his life and looks at the consequences of denying one's heritage.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mosley
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Fiction Mosley
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mosley
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Fiction Mosley
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mosley
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Fiction Mosley
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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories-heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
19) Real life
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Taylor
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Fiction Taylor
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Taylor
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Fiction Taylor
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Taylor
1 available
Fiction Taylor
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"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Coates
2 available
Fiction Coates
2 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Coates
2 available
Fiction Coates
2 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Coates
1 available
Fiction Coates
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
Donelson - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
East - Adult Large Print
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Large Print
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Playaway Fiction Coates
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Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...