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02014aam a2200361 a 4500 001 B61D1A94173D11E6929784D6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 160510s2016 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0727886061 020 $a 9780727886064 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Hambly, Barbara. 245 10 $a Drinking gourd : $b a Benjamin January novel / $c Barbara Hambly. 260 $a Surrey, England : $b Severn House, $c 2016. 300 $a 248 pages. 520 $a "Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi is accused of the crime. Since Cain cant expose the nature of his involvement in the railroad, January has to step in and find the true killer, before their covers are blown. As January probes into the murky labyrinth of slaves, slave-holders, the fugitives who follow the 'drinking gourd' north to freedom and those who help them on their way, he discovers that there is more to the situation than meets the eye, and that sometimes there are no easy." 650 0 $a January, Benjamin (Fictitious character) $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Underground Railroad $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Free African Americans $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Private investigators $x Fiction. 941 $a 10 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20230209014159.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230203012337.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220520010154.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20210713013005.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006100859.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20180523020145.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20170817011124.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418114421.0 952 $l NGPB343 $d 20161004011418.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160909010724.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B61D1A94173D11E6929784D6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search