Cultural Region/Deep South
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The Big Book of King Cake
$39.95 Add to cart“I once ate more than eighty king cakes in a single Carnival,” author Matt Haines proudly remembers, demonstrating his dedication to this delicious Mardi Gras tradition. “So you can imagine how amazed
- Author: Haines, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1733634126
- Language: English
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William Eggleston: 2 1/4
$75.00 Add to cartA tribute to Eggleston’s brief experimentation with pocket-sized photographs
Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, photographer William Eggleston began taking pictures in the early 1960s after
- Author: Eggleston, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0944092705
- Language: English
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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History
$18.00 Read moreCajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and hi… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 1934110787
- Language: English
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
$25.00 Add to cartA masterful portrait of a city under siege that depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Here we meet Denise, a counselor and soci… [more below]- Series: Pantheon Graphic Novels
- Author: Neufeld, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2010
- ISBN10: 037571488X
- Language: English
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My Louisiana Sky
$8.99 Read moreTiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana–far away from her mentally disabled mother, her “slow” father who can’t read an electric bill, and her clas
- Author: Holt, Kimberly Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0312660952
- Language: English
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Louisiana Purchase
$6.99 Read moreUncharted Territory
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made President Jefferson’s dream of extending the U.S. west of the M… [more below]- Series: Ready-For-Chapters
- Author: Roop, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689864434
- Language: English
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspirational true story of Ruby Bridges.
The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge… [more below]
- Author: Coles, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0590572814
- Language: English
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Nowhere Better Than Here
$10.99 Add to cartIn a town slowly being destroyed by rising tides, one girl must fight to find a way to keep her community’s spirit from drowning.
For thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux, three things are sacred: bayo- Author: Guillory, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250895235
- Language: English
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Letters to Oma
$18.95 Add to cartWhen fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Von Scholl learns that her family will leave their German homeland to seek freedom in Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And s… [more below]
- Series: Chaparral Books
- Author: Gurasich, Marj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 21 2016
- ISBN10: 0875650376
- Language: English
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A Sky Full of Stars
$7.99 Add to cartThis powerful coming-of-age story from the author of Midnight Without a Moon will enlighten and enchant readers and is perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Sharon M. Draper.
In 1955 Mississippi,
- Author: Jackson, Linda Williams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0358667208
- Language: English
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Locked in Time
$15.99 Add to cartNore Roberts didn’t ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to settle in at Shadow Grove, the old Civil War mansion her stepfamily calls home. When she m… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0316099023
- Language: English
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The Road to Memphis
$9.99 Add to cartA stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!
As America hovers on the brink of war, s- Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12, 2016
- ISBN10: 1101997559
- Language: English
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
$19.99 Add to cartAfter fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter’s schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina st
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Reed, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0061136654
- Language: English
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See Your Route and Run It: From Top Soldier to Top Chef
$24.99 Add to cartFrom Top Soldier to Top Chef with “the $10,000 Dish”
Scottie A. Johnson rose through the enlisted ranks from Cannon Crewmember to Drill Sergeant to Top Sergeant, and along the way, he served tours of d
- Author: Johnson, Scottie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1087922496
- Language: English
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Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana’s First Great Storm
$20.00 Read moreLast Days of Last Island is the most comprehensive account of the great 1856 Isle Derniere hurricane, its aftermath, and its legacy. Dixon includes a complete listing of victims and survivors, numerou… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1887366881
- Language: English
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Hoppin’ John’s Lowcountry Cooking: Recipes and Ruminations from Charleston and the Carolina Coastal Plain
$31.95 Add to cartAt oyster roasts and fancy cotillions, in fish camps and cutting-edge restaurants, the people of South Carolina gather to enjoy one of America’s most distinctive cuisines–the delicious, inventive far… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, John Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0807837253
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Around Ebarb and the Toledo Bend
$31.99 Add to cartThe Ebarb and Toledo Bend area of Louisiana has a fascinating and colorful history. Founded in 1716, the French Fort St. Jean Baptiste was the first settlement in the area, followed soon after by the … [more below]
- Author: Rivers, Mary Lucille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1531626874
- Language: English
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Gumbo: a Savor the South cookbook
$19.00 Add to cartRecalling childhood visits to her grandmother’s house in New Orleans, where she would feast on shrimp and okra gumbo, Dale Curry offers fifty recipes–for gumbos, jambalayas, and those little somethin… [more below]
- Series: Savor the South Cookbooks
- Author: Curry, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469677563
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to w… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #06
- Author: Debo, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: January 15 1961
- ISBN10: 0806112476
- Language: English
