LSU Press
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
$39.95 Add to cartCherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Author: Laney, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178020
- Language: English
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Acadiana: Louisiana’s Historic Cajun Country
$44.95 Add to cart“Acadiana” summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine. The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137235
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- 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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The Danse Macabre: Celebration and Survival in New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartNew Orleans is a city of contradictions: comic and tragic, sacred and secular, profound and profane; steeped heavily in tradition and religion yet drenched in decadence and debauchery. The Danse Macab
- Author: Gerber, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0807180998
- Language: English
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Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
$34.95 Add to cartKudzu abounds across the American South. Introduced in the United States in the 1800s as a solution for soil erosion, this invasive vine with Eastern Asian origins came to be known as a pernicious inv
- Author: Horn-Muller, Ayurella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182001
- Language: English
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The ABCs of Lsu
$24.95 Add to cartTiger Nation’s youngest generation will delight in The ABCs of LSU. Rhymed verse and colorful drawings introduce children to the landmarks, history, activities, and traditions of Louisiana’s flagship
- Author: Taylor, Linda Colquitt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0807173878
- Language: English
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Molly the Pony: A True Story
$19.95 Add to cartMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So begins the true story of a patient pony who is rescued from a south Louisiana barn after
- Author: Kaster, Pam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133205
- Language: English
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Bayou d’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place
$34.95 Add to cartWinner of the John Burroughs Medal
Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp addresses the vibrant natural, cultural, and social history of a north Louisiana swamp. Kelby Ouchley grew up near Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp, and he- Author: Ouchley, Kelby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177318
- Language: English
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Black Aperture
$19.95 Add to cart2013 National Book Award Finalist
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother’s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief an- Author: Rasmussen, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 080715086X
- 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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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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Judas Ear: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartAnna Journey’s The Judas Ear resurrects a host of vanished people and places, often through marvelous Ovidian metamorphoses that seem as natural in the gritty tableaux of Richmond, Virginia, as in the
- Author: Journey, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176613
- Language: English
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Waterlines: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state’s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of
- Author: Pelegrin, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0807164496
- Language: English
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
$39.95 Add to cartIn this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers’ letters and diaries, Wiley expla
- Series: Political Traditions in Foreign Policy
- Author: Wiley, Bell Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133752
- Language: English
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She Let Herself Go: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartFrom George Ella Lyon comes a dynamic and humorous collection examining the transformations of one woman’s life as she tries on, takes on, and peels off identities learned from family stories, gender,
- Author: Lyon, George Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 080714276X
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Beads
$22.95 Add to cartBeads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman’s trumpet. They are Louisiana’s version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tou
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Maccash, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177091
- Language: English
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural i
- Author: Dedek, Peter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180386
- 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
