Locality/New Orleans
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Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
$20.00 Read moreThe hidden history of the haunted and beloved city of New Orleans, told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters.
“Nine Lives is stunning work. Dan Baum has immersed himself in New- Author: Baum, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0385523203
- Language: English
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans
$29.95 Add to cartThe literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For book
- Author: Larson, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0807153079
- Language: English
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Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards & Ghosts of the Crescent City
$18.95 Read moreFear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America’s most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of bizarre burials, ghastly murders, and the greatest concen… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1581572751
- Language: English
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Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans
$29.95 Add to cartThe Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans’s longstanding drinking culture. But more than vehicles for alcohol, the c
- Series: Southern Table
- Author: Williams, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0807163260
- Language: English
