Geographic Orientation/Louisiana
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Ninth Ward (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
$8.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina.
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0316043087
- Language: English
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The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs
$18.95 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking and sensitive novel, inspired by the true story of a Louisiana leprosy hospital where patients were forcibly quarantined, acclaimed author Amanda Skenandore tells an extraord
- Author: Skenandore, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1496726510
- Language: English
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The Dooky Chase Cookbook
$27.95 Add to cartDooky Chase’s Restaurant, a New Orleans landmark and celebrated bastion of fine Creole food, has welcomed notable individuals as well as thousands of locals through its doors since opening in 1941. Th
- Series: Pelican
- Author: Chase, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1455627666
- Language: English
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Tiana’s Cookbook
$17.99 Add to cartGet ready to cook just like Tiana with this beautiful cookbook, featuring fifty easy and delicious recipes inspired by the Disney Princess and her New Orleans restaurant.
You’re never too young to sta- Author: Disney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1368074960
- Language: English
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The Witching Hour
$10.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles–the inspiration for the hit television series!
“Extraordin… [more below]- Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches #1
- Author: Rice, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: March 22 1993
- ISBN10: 0345384466
- Language: English
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A Lesson Before Dying
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Togeth
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 28, 1997
- ISBN10: 0375702709
- Language: English
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The Legend of Papa Noel: A Cajun Christmas Story
$18.99 Read moreAround the world Santa Claus has many names. But in a deep, swampy bayou of Louisiana, he’s known as Papa No?. In such a hot and humid place, there can be no sleds or reindeer, so Papa No? rides the r… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Dunham, Terri Hoover
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1585362565
- Language: English
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I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (I Survived #3): Volume 3
$5.99 Add to cartThe horror of Hurricane Katrina is brought vividly to life in this fictional account of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century.
Barry’s family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their
- Series: I Survived #03
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 0545206960
- Language: English
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A Streetcar Named Desire
$12.95 Add to cartIt is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared–57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetca
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17, 2004
- ISBN10: 0811216020
- Language: English
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Malice
$16.95 Add to cartThe gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson . . .
The scent is unmistakable–gardeni- Series: Bentz/Montoya Novel
- Author: Jackson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739116
- Language: English
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The Awakening
$5.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an ea… [more below]
- Author: Chopin, Kate
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 055321330X
- Language: English
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Taltos
$9.99 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the third installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles–the inspiration for the hit television series!
“[Taltos… [more below]- Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches #3
- Author: Rice, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 31 1996
- ISBN10: 0345404319
- Language: English
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A Gathering of Old Men
$16.95 Add to cartA powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man–set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.
The Village Voice called A Gatherin- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738908
- Language: English
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Out of the Easy
$13.99 Add to cart“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”–Entertainment Weekly
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine i- Author: Sepetys, Ruta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0147508436
- Language: English
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Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin’ in New Orleans [A Cookbook]
$30.00 Add to cartJAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE – IACP AWARD FINALIST – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fun, flavorful cookbook with more than 95 recipes and Power-Ups featuring chef Mason Hereford’s irreverent take on South… [more below]
- Author: Hereford, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1984858998
- Language: English
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Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Keeps Punching-A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 3
$9.99 Add to cartBest-selling author Rick Riordan presents the finale of Kwame Mbalia’s trilogy, in which Tristan Strong faces off with his archenemy, King Cotton, once and for all, now in paperback.
“Imagine if you co… [more below]- Series: Tristan Strong
- Author: Mbalia, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1368055052
- Language: English
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
$17.99 Add to cartThe incredible life of French Quarter legend Norma Wallace — and a portrait of an era in New Orleans history rife with charm and decadence (“Wonderful. . . admirably recreates a slice of a life other… [more below]
- Author: Wiltz, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810123
- Language: English
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If Angels Burn: A Novel of the Darkyn
$7.99 Read moreAlexandra Keller is Chicago’s most brilliant reconstructive surgeon. Michael Cyprien is New Orleans’ most reclusive millionaire–and in desperate need of Dr. Keller’s skills.
- Series: Novel of the Darkyn #1
- Author: Viehl, Lynn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0451214773
- Language: English
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The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook
$22.99 Add to cartA guide to the practices, tools, and rituals of New Orleans Voodoo as well as the many cultural influences at its origins
– Includes recipes for magical oils, instructions for candle workings, and dir- Author: Filan, Kenaz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1594774358
- Language: English
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I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #6)
$10.99 Add to cartThe story of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century is brought vividly to life in this graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis’s bestselling I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005, with text adapte
- Series: I Survived Graphix #6
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338766945
- Language: English
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