Geographic Orientation/Louisiana
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A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook: Recipes from Ignatius J.
$39.95 Add to cartIn John Kennedy Toole’s iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibes such as “canned food is a perversion,” or taking a
- Author: Nobles, Cynthia Lejeune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0807161918
- Language: English
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Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey
$18.99 Add to cart“Utterly endearing!” –Annie Barrows, New York Times-bestselling author of the Ivy + Bean books
“Hilarious and heart-melting.” –Sara Pennypacker, New York Times-bestselling author of Pax
Introducing ei
- Series: Maybe Marisol #1
- Author: Kelly, Erin Entrada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0062970429
- Language: English
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Ruby, Head High: Ruby Bridge’s First Day of School
$19.99 Read moreInspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.
- Author: Cohen-Janca, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1568463413
- Language: English
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Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy: Down Home Classics for Vegetarians (and the Meat Eaters Who Love Them)
$29.99 Add to cartIn Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy, chef and Southern at Heart host Damaris Phillips shares 100 recipes that embody the modern Southern kitchen: food that retains all its historic comfort and flavo… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Damaris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1419726692
- Language: English
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The Optimist’s Daughter
$16.00 Add to cartThis Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 067972883X
- Language: English
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Zeitoun
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of The Circle – The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane K… [more below]
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0307387941
- Language: English
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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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The River Between Us
$8.99 Add to cartThe year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt’s brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 21 2005
- ISBN10: 0142403105
- 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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A Penguin Named Patience: A Hurricane Katrina Rescue Story
$18.62 Read morePatience is a South African penguin. She is small at roughly 6 pounds and approximately 20 inches tall; but at 24 years old, she is the “penguin in charge” of the penguin exhibit at New Orleans’s Audu… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1585368407
- 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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Molly the Pony: A True Story
$19.95 Add to cartMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So begins the true story of a patient pony who is rescued from a south Louisiana barn after
- Author: Kaster, Pam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133205
- 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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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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Forever This Summer
$7.99 Add to cartThe second book from critically acclaimed author Leslie C. Youngblood, about family, identity, and learning to stand up for what’s right — now in paperback! Georgie has no idea what to expect when sh… [more below]
- Series: Love Like Sky
- Author: Youngblood, Leslie C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0316103217
- Language: English
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A Horn for Louis: Louis Armstrong–As a Kid!
$6.99 Add to cartHow did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn?
Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mothe- Series: Stepping Stone Chapter Books
- Author: Kimmel, Eric A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0375840052
- Language: English
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The 5 O’Clock Band
$19.99 Read moreTake a tour of New Orleans with Grammy-nominated musician Troy Andrews and renowned illustrator Bryan Collier in this companion picture book to the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Illustrator A
- Author: Andrews, Troy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 19, 2018
- ISBN10: 1419728369
- Language: English
