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On a beautiful day in 1965, a dozen college girls launched their homemade raft on a trip down the Mississippi. Thirty-five years later, four of the girls reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on a luxury steamboat, and they're carrying the ashes of a fellow rafter to give to the river at the end of the cruise.
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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1926.
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Edna Ferber’s classic paean of love to the Mississippi River and the showboats that ran up and down it is available in hardcover. First published in 1926, this timeless tale of the Cotton Blossom, Cap’n Andy, his shrewd wife Parthy, and their beautiful daughter Magnolia her remarkable daughter Kim.
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[2002]
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In 1965, a dozen college girls launched their homemade raft on a trip down the Mississippi. Thirty-five years later, four of the "girls" make the same trip aboard a luxury steamboat to carry the ashes of a fifth to her final resting place. As the trip proceeds, each woman remembers the past and faces the choices she has made in her life.
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