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Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain | Terry Bisson
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It?s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet and a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown in Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army. Long unavailable in English, this bold novel tells the tale of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry had succeeded - and the Civil War had been started by the abolitionists, not the slave owners.
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lauren.lerner
Fire on the Mountain | Terry Bisson
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Teething babies are like pet rabbits: they want to eat your books. 👶🏻🐰📚😱
#booksareforreadingnoteating #raisingreaders

JSW 😲😲 6y
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lauren.lerner
Fire on the Mountain | Terry Bisson
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*Someone* was excited about my recent #bookmail. 👀
Can‘t wait to read both of these books, so it makes sense that my baby couldn‘t wait to try to eat both of these books.

#booksareforreadingnoteating #iusedtosaythattomylatebunny #dejavu #raisingreaders #interruptedphotoshoot #hesstandinguponorwitheverything#speculativefiction #diversereads #shortfiction

Leftcoastzen Growing up so fast! 6y
lauren.lerner He really is, @Leftcoastzen, it‘s wild!! 6y
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gadosiahe
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Like so many sci-fi novels, this one took several pages for me to "get up to speed" on the differences in the world. But after that initial learning curve, this story was non-stop wonderful. It probably helps that I'm a historian, so the topic was particularly interesting for me. Still, I highly recommend it!

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gadosiahe
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Already well over halfway through! This book is very well written. I'll save the details for my review :)

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gadosiahe
Fire on the Mountain | Terry Bisson
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Since I finished What It's Like To Be A Dog, I of course have to jump right into the next one! This is the last of my Christmas haul, if you can believe it. I've a feeling this is going to go quickly!

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