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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana: A Personal Biography
$44.95 Add to cartThroughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana’s courts. A Mo
- Author: Emanuel, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137936
- Language: English
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son
$29.95 Add to cartBorn and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Percy, William Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807100722
- Language: English
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Divine Ratios: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartThe reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post-World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West. The s… [more below]
- Author: Osherow, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0807177717
- Language: English
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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
$29.95 Add to cartIn recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identifi
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176966
- Language: English
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The Café Brûlot
$24.95 Add to cartThe Caf? Br?lot examines the cocktail that was born of a legend and has endured through the centuries, showcasing New Orleans’s love of flavored drama. A combination of coffee, liquor, and fire, Caf? … [more below]
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Strachan, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176044
- Language: English
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Sibilance: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe word “sibilance” refers to pronunciations of the letter “s,” including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts
- Author: Van Doren, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180181
- Language: English
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Louisiana Herb Journal: Healing on Home Ground
$34.95 Add to cartIn a world of constant change and crisis, the relationship between humans and their environment has never been more vital. Louisiana Herb Journal invites readers into the world of medicinal herbs, int
- Author: Martin, Corinne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177407
- Language: English
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Rescuing Biodiversity: The Protection and Restoration of a North Louisiana Ecosystem
$29.95 Add to cartRestoration ecology is a vital tool to mitigate the crisis caused by the global destruction of biodiversity, one of the most powerful existential threats to future generations. Johnny Armstrong’s Resc
- Author: Armstrong, Johnny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179507
- Language: English
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String
$20.95 Add to cartA book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn’s String tells the story of a teenage boy’s experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he
- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Thorburn, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179043
- Language: English
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Speed, Safety, and Comfort: The Origins of Delta Air Lines
$39.95 Add to cartIn Speed, Safety, and Comfort: The Origins of Delta Air Lines, former Delta Boeing 767 captain and aviation historian James John Hoogerwerf traces the evolution and growth of one of America’s most su
- Author: Hoogerwerf, James John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180076
- Language: English
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Mémère’s Country Creole Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from Louisiana’s German Coast
$34.95 Add to cartM m re’s Country Creole Cookbook showcases regional dishes and cooking styles associated with the “German Coast,” a part of southeastern Louisiana located along the Mississippi River north of New Orle
- Series: Southern Table
- Author: Wilson, Nancy Tregre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 14, 2018
- ISBN10: 0807168971
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Urban Gardener: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Vegetables and Herbs
$34.95 Add to cartWhether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot’s The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidelines and useful tools to jump-start and maintain smal
- Author: Fontenot, Kathryn K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19, 2017
- ISBN10: 0807166790
- Language: English
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Notes from the Divided Country: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn her first collection, Suji Kwock Kim confronts a number of difficult subjects–colonialism, the Korean War, emigration, racism, and love. She considers what a homeland would be for a divided nation
- Author: Kwock Kim, Suji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0807128732
- Language: English
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The Vieux Carré
$24.95 Add to cartIn this fascinating little book, John DeMers tells the story of the Vieux Carré cocktail against the evolving backdrop of the ever-rich cocktail culture of New Orleans. Mixologist Walter Bergeron crea
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: DeMers, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807178551
- Language: English
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In Ghostlight: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Wilson, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181293
- Language: English
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I, Divided: Poems
$22.95 Add to cartAn underlying cynicism lies at the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman’s I, Divided: What is a life worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that dete
- Author: Dingman, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180173
- Language: English
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Eyes, Stones
$19.95 Add to cartIn this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The poems inv- Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
- Author: Bell, Elana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 16, 2012
- ISBN10: 0807144649
- Language: English
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The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartCollege football is a massive enterprise in the United States, and southern teams dominate poll rankings and sports headlines while generating billions in revenue for public schools and private compan
- Author: Bell, Andrew McIlwaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0807171204
- Language: English
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Refusal: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny–invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide–to
- Author: Molberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: February 12, 2020
- ISBN10: 0807170747
- Language: English
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Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011
$24.95 Add to cartConjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selec
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12, 2012
- ISBN10: 0807147346
- Language: English
