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The underground railroad : a novel

Summary: 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 seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385542364
  • ISBN: 0385542364
  • Physical Description: print
    306 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
890L Lexile.
Awards Note:
National Book Award, 2016
Pulitzer Prize, 2017
Subject: Underground Railroad Fiction
Fugitive slaves United States Fiction
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / African American & Black / General
United States History 19th century Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 133 of 139 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tyson Library Association, Inc.. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tyson Library - Versailles. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 139 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Tyson Library - Versailles F WHI (Text) 31070500432261 Adult Fiction Available -
Adams PL Sys. - Decatur Branch FIC WHITEHE UND (Text) 34207002021435 Adult Fiction Available -
Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch FIC WHI (Text) 34207002053495 Adult Fiction Available -
Akron Carnegie PL - Akron FIC WHI (Text) 75253000052990 Adult Fiction Available -
Barton Rees Pogue Mem. PL - Upland F WHITEHEAD colson Underground (Text)
Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grant: from Indiana Humanities with funds from Lilly Endowment Inc., 2020. [ AW @ BRPML-UPL ]
76277000040657 Fiction* Available -
Batesville Mem. PL - Batesville F WHITEHEAD C. (Text) 34706001527847 Adult Fiction Available -
Benton Co PL - Fowler F WHI (Text) 34044000901320 Adult Fiction Canceled Transit -
Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Bloomfield Main FIC WHI (Text) 36803001000822 FICTION Available -
Boswell Grant Twp PL - Boswell FIC WHI (Text) 38144000364960 Fiction Available -
Brazil PL - Brazil WHITEHEAD (Text) 38160000672954 Second Floor, Fiction Available -

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