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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, 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. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhoodâwhere even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as plannedâCora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.    In Whiteheadâs ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphorâengineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesarâs first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the cityâs placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.    Like the protagonist of Gulliverâs Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journeyâhers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the preâCivil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one womanâs ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Hardcover:
9780385537032 | Doubleday, September 13, 2016, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9781524734633 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, September 13, 2016), cover price $27.00
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9780735285576 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 13, 2016), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, 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.
Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author The author of the bestselling book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of a slave and the master of Tall Oaks plantation, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad...read more
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9781410488992 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 6, 2016), cover price $35.99 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestselling Author The author of the bestselling book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of a slave and the master of Tall Oaks plantation, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.
9781476748443 | Simon & Schuster, April 5, 2016, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: From the author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House, a novel of family and long-buried secrets along the treacherous Underground Railroad.
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9781442397712 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 5, 2016), cover price $39.99
Paperback:
9781613280812 | Kingstone Media Group, November 1, 2012, cover price $14.99
Library:
9781628998283 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, January 1, 2016), cover price $34.95
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9781609584146, titled "Finding Freedom: An Addy Classic" | Reprint edition (Amer Girl Pub, August 28, 2014), cover price $9.99
Product Description: Find adventure with Addy Walker in this three-book boxed set. Discover how a clever disguise helps in an escape to freedom, how Addy learns about true friendship, and what makes a Christmas shadow play unforgettable. Join a journey that leads to a double celebration on April 9th, and discover how Addy learns that hopes and dreams can live on in others...read more
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9781609585006 | Box edition (Amer Girl Pub, August 28, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Find adventure with Addy Walker in this three-book boxed set.
Hardcover:
9781410464859 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 8, 2014), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
9781594486340 | 1 edition (Riverhead Books, August 20, 2013), cover price $27.95
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9781594632785 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, August 5, 2014), cover price $16.00
9781594137839 | Large print edition (Large Print Pr, August 5, 2014), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fleeing her violent master at the side of legendary abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-19th-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
9781594633379 | Random House, May 22, 2014, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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9780606356572 | Turtleback Books, August 5, 2014, cover price $28.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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9781611762938 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, February 13, 2014), cover price $45.00
Product Description: From the widow and collaborator of Alex Haley, award-winning author of Roots, comes a new American epic from the Civil War. The Treason of Mary Louvestre is based on the true story of a seamstress slave from the Confederate town of Norfolk, Virginia...read more
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9781938467189 | Koehler Books, February 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From the widow and collaborator of Alex Haley, award-winning author of Roots, comes a new American epic from the Civil War.
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9781426752636, titled "Path of Freedom: Quilts of Love Series #3" | Abingdon Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $12.99
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9781936164332 | Kingstone Media Group, February 10, 2011, cover price $14.95
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