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Water Dancer
Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published: 2020
Publisher: Penguin
Number of pages: 416
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 198×129
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Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.
Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery...
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