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Laura (booksnob)
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The Mississippi river is the longest river in North America. During the Civil War the river was fought over by the North and South to gain control of ports and shipping routes. The River Between Us is about people from Grand Tower, Illinois. A town divided between the North and South with boys leaving to fight on either side.

In 1961, one of the last steamboats arrives in Grand Tower before the blockade and carries two mysterious southern women, Delphine and Calinda. These two ladies disembark to
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