Locality/New Orleans
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Kevin Belton’s Big Flavors of New Orleans
$26.99 Read moreChef Kevin Belton, a true Creole New Orleanian, dishes up the culinary history of his city with recipes that provide both down-home comfort and the big flavors he is famous for. He teaches how to make
- Author: Belton, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1423641574
- Language: English
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Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things
$18.99 Read moreAn ALA Morris Award Finalist!
In this “equal parts heartbreaking and joyful” (School Library Journal) debut YA novel that’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen g- Author: Fuston, Margie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1534474579
- Language: English
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A Guide to the Historic French Quarter
$14.99 Add to cartLocal author Andy Peter Antippas presents a walking history of the Vieux Carre, one alley, corner and street at a time.
Walking through the French Quarter can overwhelm the senses–and the imagination.
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Antippas, Andy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1626192804
- Language: English
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Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans
$35.00 Add to cartA tour of some of the most historic saloons in America.
There is no doubt that New Orleans has more drinking establishments per capita than any other city in the United States. Lavishly illustrated wi
- Author: McCaffety, Kerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1455615846
- Language: English
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Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans
$32.50 Read moreAfter Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans in 2005, Cooking Up a Storm was published to tell the story–recipe by recipe–of one of the great food cities of the world and the determination of it… [more below]
- Author: Bienvenu, Marcelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1452144001
- Language: English
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We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
$32.00 Add to cartThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequ… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Roberta Brandes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1568587449
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz
$42.99 Add to cartNew Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played b
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Morgan, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1684420970
- Language: English
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
$26.95 Add to cartIn the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the c
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
- Author: Reed, John Shelton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 08, 2014
- ISBN10: 0807156108
- Language: English
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Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
$37.43 Add to cartLike the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Or… [more below]
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0520274040
- Language: English
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new foreword by the author–Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans…packed with heart, honesty, and wit” (New … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1501125370
- Language: English
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of th… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0770437087
- Language: English
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
$16.95 Add to cartBuried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event th… [more below]
- Author: Fieseler, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 163149595X
- Language: English
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Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
$27.99 Add to cartLouis Armstrong’s New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years of Armstrong’s life. Drawing on a stunning body of f
- Author: Brothers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039333001X
- Language: English
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Haunted New Orleans: History & Hauntings of the Crescent City
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the dark and mysterious past of New Orleans with this riveting collection of tales that devle into the most haunted city in America.
New Orleans–the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of C
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2010
- ISBN10: 1596299444
- Language: English
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The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and Achieve
$19.99 Add to cartIgnore radical social changes by clinging to hopes of restoring a past that can never be revisited or embrace change and find ways to use our new realities to create increased opportunities for all.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Morial, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1400216311
- Language: English
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Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America
$17.99 Add to cart“WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic.” –Douglas Brinkley
Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Piazza, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0062008226
- Language: English
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Through the Storm
$9.99 Read moreSable, a slave on the run to escape the cruel man she’s been sold to is forced to betray the charming Union officer Raimond LeVeq, who had romanced her and championed her. Brought together again by fa… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0380798646
- Language: English
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The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
$18.99 Add to cartDave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In the waning days of summer 2005,- Series: Dave Robicheaux
- Author: Burke, James Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1501198599
- Language: English
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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, 1
$18.99 Add to cart“Delicious and addictive.”–Salon.com
“Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.”–CNN
“What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis’- Series: Claire DeWitt Novels #1
- Author: Gran, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0547747616
- Language: English
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Shiver
$15.95 Add to cartNow available for the first time in trade paperback, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Southern Gothic thriller from #1 bestselling author Lisa Jackson! A serial killer is on the loose in T… [more below]
- Series: Bentz/Montoya Novel
- Author: Jackson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 149673601X
- Language: English
