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Pages: 402
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From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously wr
Ain't Nothing But a Man
Language: en
Pages: 72
Authors: Scott Reynolds Nelson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

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Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song
The Intuitionist
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Colson Whitehead
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-23 - Publisher: Anchor

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This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked t
Steel Drivin' Man
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Pages: 224
Authors: Scott Reynolds Nelson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a st
John Henry
Language: en
Pages: 41
Authors: Julius Lester
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney's warm, humorous retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad. When John Henry was born the birds, bears, rabbits, and ev