Del Norte Public Library

A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave.

A retelling of the bible story. Pharaoh Ramses decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket in the Nile by his mother, is taken by a royal princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt, Memefta. Moses is called by God to lead his people from Egypt to the promised land.

To avoid being sold farther South and being separated from their loved ones, Eliza and George run a gauntlet of slave hunters in a desperate flight for freedom, while the noble Tom falls into the hands of the vicious Simon Legree.

Final days of planet earth: Lloyd Walker is an anti-heroic archaeologist who, after stumbling upon an alien conspiracy, becomes enmeshed in an against-all-odds battle to save the human race. From the enigmatic Room 86 to the doomed Pericles space mission, Walker puzzles together clues to reveal the dark purpose behind the strange events occurring around San Francisco. Now, mankind must be rescued from a life of slavery at the hands of some very big,...