The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

The grand steamer Fevre Dream voyages down the Mississippi, and Captain Marsh finds that his partner is a vampire.

"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

"Skye Fargo is working his way up and down the Mississippi River looking to stop a band of deadly river rats from destroying a valuable riverboat line. But it won't be easy--because the truth behind the attacks leads to a conspiracy with more twists and turns than the mighty Mississippi itself" --

"A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. Together they conspired to blow the dam that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway. Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: "And not a soul escaped alive."...

One fictional Midwestern family is forced to leave their home during the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1993.