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Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
$29.95 Add to cartIn the early 1970s, two idealistic young people–Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin–decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart
- Author: Roland, Gwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0807130893
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Bewilderment: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartWinner of the Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award
Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood, or back talk from “indelicate broads,” a complicated world spea- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Pelegrin, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176796
- Language: English
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The Rising Water Trilogy: Plays
$29.95 Add to cartWidely praised by critics and hailed by audiences, the award-winning plays in John Biguenet’s The Rising Water Trilogy examine the emotional toll of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Approaching th
- Author: Biguenet, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10, 2015
- ISBN10: 0807161403
- Language: English
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The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception: The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
$44.95 Read morePerhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interf
- Author: Drez, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 080715931X
- Language: English
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That Beauty in the Trees: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartMoving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Smith, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807177989
- Language: English
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Newly Not Eternal
$20.95 Add to cartEqual parts elegy and ode, Newly Not Eternal explores the startling suffering and sentiment implicit in human mortality. At the heart of this collection, a son has died on the cusp of his first breath
- Author: Clark, George David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181277
- Language: English
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Breaking Barriers: A View from the Bench
$29.95 Add to cartIn Breaking Barriers, Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr. describes how he made history in Baton Rouge by becoming the first African American to be elected to judgeships at three different levels of the court s
- Author: Pitcher, Freddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 080717811X
- Language: English
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Rethinking American Disasters
$34.95 Add to cartRethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proc… [more below]
- Author: Kierner, Cynthia a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179930
- Language: English
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Bite Every Sorrow
$20.95 Add to cart“This is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning.” — C. K. Williams, from his judge’s citation for the 1997 Walt Whitman Award Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely h
- Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
- Author: Ras, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0807122645
- Language: English
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Building the National WWII Museum
$34.95 Add to cartAs the second-most visited museum in the United States, The National WWII Museum attracts hundreds of thousands of patrons every year to its campus in New Orleans. Guests can tour its extensive perman
- Author: Mueller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179515
- 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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Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
$24.95 Add to cartIn a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fas
- Author: Mueller, Lisel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0807121282
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Po’boy
$22.95 Add to cartPo’Boy tells the story of how a humble sandwich became a symbol of New Orleans culture, history, and cuisine. Invented to help feed a crowd of out-of-work individuals in New Orleans’s streetcar indust
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Bischoff, Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180475
- Language: English
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Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z
$24.95 Add to cartIn the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans. While popular writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald invented partygoers who danced from one cocktail to the
- Author: Leonhardt, Olive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0807159921
- Language: English
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Mothers of Ireland: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartCelebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish history and Irish–American culture. Mothers of Irela
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Kane, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: February 19, 2020
- ISBN10: 0807170755
- Language: English
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Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France
$34.95 Add to cartDoctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Th
- Author: Hampton, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 080717873X
- Language: English
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The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen
$34.95 Add to cartThe Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity–and the limits–of marriage. The Lawrences come aliv
- Author: Squires, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180467
- Language: English
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The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy
$44.95 Add to cartPeter Adams’s The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known f
- Author: Adams, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179922
- Language: English
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How to Drown a Boy: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartHow to Drown a Boy, a debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The woods,
- Author: Fuller, J. Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181285
- Language: English
