Geographic Orientation/Louisiana
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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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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 Southern Gardener’s Book Of Lists: The Best Plants for All Your Needs, Wants, and Whims
$17.95 Add to cartThe ideal plants for all of your specific needs, wants, and whims are identified in over 250 lists that end costly plant-choice mistakes.
- Author: Chaplin, Lois Trigg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0878338446
- Language: English
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RECIPES from the KITCHEN of Linda Gail Potter
$41.95 Add to cartThe Lord Is….
More Than Enough
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation! Psalm 68:19
…He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the discipl
- Author: Potter, Linda Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1685175082
- Language: English
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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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The Brothers
$24.99 Add to cartBorn to a music-loving family, the Neville brothers grew up immersed in the sounds and culture of New Orleans, and the blended rhythms of the city are reflected in their wide range of musical styles. … [more below]
- Series: Autobiography
- Author: Ritz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810530
- Language: English
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Cajun Pig
$40.99 Add to cartSouthwest Louisiana is famous for time-honored gatherings that celebrate its French Acadian heritage. And the culinary star of these gatherings? That’s generally the pig. Whether it’s a boucherie, the… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Poché, Dixie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: November 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1540245306
- Language: English
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Walking New Orleans: 33 Historic Neighborhoods, Waterfront Districts, and Recreational Wonderlands
$16.95 Add to cartGet to Know the Famous Louisiana City’s Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods
From Lakeview and Mid-City to the Saenger Theatre and the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, the Big Easy is one of the world’s most fa
- Series: Walking
- Author: Bronston, Barri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1643590359
- Language: English
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The French Quarter of New Orleans
$45.00 Read moreThere is no place in America like New Orleans’s famed French Quarter.
With photographs and history, The French Quarter of New Orleans explores the unique evolution of this district. The author and ph- Author: Fraiser, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1578065240
- Language: English
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From WHITE to BLACK: One Life Between Two Worlds
$25.00 Add to cartIris Duplantier Rideau’s story is one of rags to riches-of accomplishing the nearly impossible by a Black woman born into a poor Creole family in New Orleans. Stung by the ugly hatred of racism around
- Author: Rideau, Iris Duplantier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1734990228
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$26.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
$14.95 Add to cartDuring the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The intervie
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Tanner, Lynette Ater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0895876264
- Language: English
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Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
$25.00 Add to cartAcadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 by Carl A. Brasseaux An enlightening assessment that provides understanding of how the Acadians of Nova Scotia were culturally transformed into … [more below]
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0878055835
- Language: English
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Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics
$24.95 Add to cartWith both an entertainer’s eye and a social scientist’s rigor, Wayne Parent subjects Louisiana’s politics to rational and empirical analysis, seeking and finding coherent reasons for the state’s well-
- Author: Parent, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807131989
- Language: English
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Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans
$24.95 Read moreCelebrate 300 years of New Orleans history
Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive text for tourists, locals, teachers, and students.
- Author: Garvey, Joan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1455623415
- Language: English
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Bourbon Street: A History
$49.95 Add to cartNew Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a y
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807155055
- Language: English
