Geographic Orientation/Louisiana
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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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Mardi Gras Almost Didn’t Come This Year
$17.99 Add to cartIn this gorgeous and lyrical picture book, a family finds hope and healing in a Mardi Gras celebration after Hurricane Katrina changed their world.
That zany beat in our feet is ’cause of Pop-Pop, our- Author: Price, Kathy Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1534444254
- Language: English
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Hooper Finds a Family: A Hurricane Katrina Dog’s Survival Tale
$9.99 Add to cartWinner of the Christopher Award and Florida’s Sunshine State Young Readers Award
He’s endearing. He’s funny. He’s a survivor.
In this moving tale of adventure and triumph based on a true story, meet Hoo
- Author: Paley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0062011057
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Lsu Football
$42.99 Add to cartPapier-m?h?acute; tigers, riots on the field, Chinese bandits, tailgating before a trip to the stadium nicknamed “Death Valley”-all these things and more describe the events, places, and people associ
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Martin, Mark E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420881
- Language: English
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Heaven’s Prisoners
$18.99 Add to cartJames Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winni… [more below]
- Series: Dave Robicheaux
- Author: Burke, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743449193
- Language: English
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Chef Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Prudhomme, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 17 1984
- ISBN10: 0688028470
- Language: English
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Queen of Swords
$9.99 Add to cartIt is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet’s… [more below]
- Series: Wilderness #5
- Author: Donati, Sara
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 25 2007
- ISBN10: 055358278X
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of Louisiana
$12.95 Add to cartIn Louisiana, disbelief in ghosts is not an option. Some of the best-known hauntings in the country are the unsettled spirits that have roamed the bustling French Quarter of New Orleans since its earl… [more below]
- Series: Ghost Stories
- Author: Asfar, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1894877195
- Language: English
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Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember
$16.99 Add to cartHurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the school year, the city’s children were among those … [more below]
- Series: Harvest Original
- Author: Tisserand, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0156031892
- Language: English
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Cane River
$25.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantati… [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Tademy, Lalita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0446678457
- Language: English
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Miss Kay’s Duck Commander Kitchen: Faith, Family, and Food–Bringing Our Home to Your Table
$26.99 Add to cartThe sassy, country-cookin’ matriarch of the Robertson clan and star of A&E(R)’s Duck Dynasty(R) dishes up her fabulous recipes and stories in this irresistible family cookbook.
Writing a cookbook for- Author: Robertson, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1476745129
- Language: English
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartHome to the notorious “Blue Book,” which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans’s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2003
- ISBN10: 1560254947
- Language: English
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Creole Gumbo and All That Jazz: A New Orleans Seafood Cookbook
$22.95 Add to cartA delightful book with excellent recipes . . .
-Mimi Sheraton, New York TimesHugely influential for me and my budding culinary peers of the time . . . both [Mitcham] and his books were fascinating dep
- Author: Mitcham, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 31 1992
- ISBN10: 0882898701
- Language: English
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Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (the Sports Beat, 1)
$8.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real “March Madness”–behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament.
When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring spo- Series: Final Four Mysteries (Paperback) #1
- Author: Feinstein, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0553494600
- Language: English
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The Casquette Girls
$9.99 Add to cartAfter the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne and her father are among the first to return. Adele wants nothing more than to resume her normal life, but with t
- Series: Casquette Girls #1
- Author: Arden, Alys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1503946541
- Language: English
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Shiver
$9.99 Add to cartDetectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya race to catch a serial killer on the loose in The Big Easy in Lisa Jackson’s blockbuster New York Times and USA Today bestselling Southern Gothic thriller…
T- Series: Bentz/Montoya Novel
- Author: Jackson, Lisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1420155660
- Language: English
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Mosquitoes
$13.00 Add to cartFaulkner’s second novel is a high-spirited satiric romp set on an ill-fated pleasure cruise out of New Orleans.
Wealthy Mrs. Maurier, the widowed heiress of an old New Orleans family, likes to collect- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593470982
- Language: English
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Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House
$22.95 Add to cartInside the “Most Haunted” House in New Orleans
The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her ma
- Author: Long, Carolyn Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061830
- Language: English
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
$14.95 Read moreFor two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvani
- Author: Codrescu, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31, 2006
- ISBN10: 1565125053
- Language: English
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Blood Dazzler
$18.00 Add to cartIn minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, thro
- Author: Smith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 156689218X
- Language: English
