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A Hound Dog Tale: Big Mama, Elvis, and the Song That Changed Everything
$34.95 Add to cartThe release of the song “Hound Dog” in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. B
- Author: Wynne, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181145
- Language: English
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The French 75
$24.95 Add to cartIn The French 75, John Maxwell Hamilton tracks down the many lives of this protean cocktail. The drink, named by French propagandists during World War I, was said to pack a punch as powerful as that n… [more below]
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Hamilton, John Maxwell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181765
- Language: English
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Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages
$34.95 Add to cartRichard Campanella’s Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185108
- Language: English
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Frank Zappa’s America
$39.95 Add to cartFrom his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the 1960s and 1970s, experimenting with a blen
- Author: Morgan, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 080718392X
- Language: English
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Celebrating with St. Joseph Altars: The History, Recipes, and Symbols of a New Orleans Tradition
$34.95 Add to cartEvery year on March 19, Roman Catholic churches and households in and around New Orleans celebrate St. Joseph’s Day. As centerpieces of these celebrations, the elaborate tiered displays of foods, pray
- Series: Southern Table
- Author: Juneau, Sandra Scalise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 10 2021
- ISBN10: 807174769
- Language: English
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim
$34.95 Add to cartIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a
- Author: Palmer, Hannah S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181897
- Language: English
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The Beechers: America’s Most Influential Family
$39.95 Add to cartThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called “the father of more brains than any other man in America.” Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-kno
- Author: Todd, Obbie Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182753
- Language: English
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An Arm Fixed to a Wing: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartOlivia Clare Friedman’s An Arm Fixed to a Wing seeks out the spiritual elements that haunt the everyday, the divine wing fastened to an earthly arm. Elegies and poems of nostalgia appear alongside pie
- Author: Friedman, Olivia Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183733
- Language: English
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Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing
$29.95 Add to cartInvisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their
- Author: Shannon, Katy Morlas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183822
- Language: English
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Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
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Novice: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartHow close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun’s Novice traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a … [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Sophasarun, Nida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183903
- Language: English
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Candy: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartDan Albergotti’s Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that creates the ambient so… [more below]
- Series: Sewanee Poetry
- Author: Albergotti, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182540
- Language: English
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American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana
$49.95 Add to cartThomas E. Patterson’s monumental biography of Huey Long is a profound reevaluation of his life and legacy, recognizing him as an inspirational progressive thinker, populist hero, and radical influence
- Author: Patterson, Thomas E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0807182990
- Language: English
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Civilians: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe final volume in Jehanne Dubrow’s groundbreaking trilogy about the experience of being a modern military spouse, Civilians examines a significant moment of transformation in a military marriage: th
- Author: Dubrow, Jehanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: February 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0807183725
- Language: English
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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that
- Author: Sapp, Erin Grayson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 080717792X
- Language: English
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush
$39.95 Add to cartThe Presidents and the Planet recounts the story of the world’s greatest environmental dilemma through the eyes of early climate change pioneers. It begins in the 1950s, when American scientists first
- Author: Hakes, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 05 2024
- ISBN10: 807181900
- Language: English
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Nocturnal New Orleans
$59.95 Add to cartBehold the mystique of the New Orleans night–that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during “the witching hour.”
Darkness may unleash the Dionysian in the Cr- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182613
- Language: English
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Ever After: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal coll
- Author: Chappell, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182605
- Language: English
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Draw Me Without Boundaries
$22.95 Add to cartPowerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margar… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: July 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182451
- Language: English
