Cultural Region/Gulf Coast
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Native Americans in Florida
$18.95 Add to cartLong before the first European explorers set foot on Florida soil, numerous Native American tribes hunted, honored their gods, built burial mounds, and coexisted with one another in pockets of settlem… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1561641820
- Language: English
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The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist Edition
$38.95 Add to cartFor years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper’s naturalist’s edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram’s pioneering survey. Complete
- Author: Bartram, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820320277
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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Galveston: A History of the Island Volume 18
$21.95 Add to cartGalveston–a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coast–has seen some of the state’s most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalis… [more below]
- Series: Chisholm Trail #18
- Author: Cartwright, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651909
- Language: English
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The Spanish Missions of San Antonio
$19.95 Add to cartAn illustrated history of the missions of San Antonio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Author: Fisher, Lewis F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1595347135
- Language: English
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Teche: A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou
$25.00 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Shane K. Bernard’s Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1496809416
- Language: English
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
$17.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty – “Stunning moral clari… [more below]
- Author: Prejean, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751319
- Language: English
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Key West: History of an Island of Dreams
$24.95 Add to cartParrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city’s real story–told by M… [more below]
- Author: Ogle, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0813029937
- Language: English
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Through the Storm
$9.99 Read moreSable, a slave on the run to escape the cruel man she’s been sold to is forced to betray the charming Union officer Raimond LeVeq, who had romanced her and championed her. Brought together again by fa… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0380798646
- Language: English
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Mercy
$10.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heartbreaker comes a thrilling novel of passion and obsession featuring attorney Theo Buchanan.
Like his FBI agent brother Nick, Theo Buchanan is devot- Author: Garwood, Julie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0671034022
- Language: English
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Crossroad Blues
$16.95 Add to cartNick Travers is back where it all began.
25 years after The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed Crossroad Blues “an impressive debut by a promising new talent,” the acclaimed crime novel is back in print.
- Author: Atkins, Ace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1733043306
- Language: English
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New Orleans Mourning: A Gripping Police Procedural Thriller
$14.99 Add to cartWinner of the 1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel and the first mystery in the highly acclaimed Skip Langdon series, New Orleans Mourning falls deliciously between the psychological suspense of
- Series: Skip Langdon Murder Mystery #1
- Author: Smith, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: August 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0999813145
- Language: English
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A Walk on the Wild Side
$19.00 Add to cartWith its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, Nelson Algren’s A Walk in the Wild Side has found a plac
- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525323
- Language: English
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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised)
$19.95 Add to cartThis is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers — George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin — as well as three prolific twentieth-cen
- Series: Southern Literary Studies
- Author: Kennedy, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0807122734
- Language: English
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Attacked at Sea (Young Readers Edition): A True World War II Story of a Family’s Fight for Survival
$14.99 Add to cartA riveting WWII account of survival at sea from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours.
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year! On May 19, 1942, during WWII, a U- Series: True Rescue
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250853214
- Language: English
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
$18.95 Read moreSheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discrimi
- Author: Webb, Sheyann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0817308989
- Language: English
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All Over But the Shoutin’: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author, “a grand memoir…. Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love … he will make you cry” (Atlanta Jour… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0679774025
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town
$49.95 Add to cartA. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders, and homeowners to embrace the finest elements of Lo
- Author: Vetter, Cyril E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0807123714
- Language: English
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The Little New Orleans Cookbook: Fifty-Seven Classic Creole Recipes That Will Enable Everyone to Enjoy the Special Cuisine of New Orleans
$9.95 Read moreRecreate that special Crescent City magic right in your own kitchen with The Little New Orleans Cookbook. Here, author Gwen McKee presents fifty-seven classic New Orleans dishes, with entertaining not
- Author: McKee, Gwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0937552429
- Language: English
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Talk about Good!
$24.95 Add to cartThis cookbook takes you on a journey through south Louisiana’s traditions, cultural heritage, and the culinary artistries of Cajun food. With 790,000 copies sold, Talk About Good is in its 23rd printi
- Author: Lafayette, Junior League of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 07 1969
- ISBN10: 0935032029
- Language: English
