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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
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Above New Orleans: Roofscapes of the Crescent City
$59.95 Add to cartThe first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a camera. Overhead scenes cover the entire metropolis, fro
- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176060
- Language: English
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
$34.95 Add to cartWinner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award
In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact u- Author: Rogoff, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180904
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$39.95 Add to cartThe Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books–Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds–as well as the additional poems that app
- Author: Ransom, John Crowe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0807171743
- Language: English
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Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations
$39.95 Add to cartWinner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies
Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author’s centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut nove- Author: Begiebing, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178136
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy
$39.95 Add to cartWith In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonanc
- Author: Bland, Sterling Lecater
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178500
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman’s New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles
$34.95 Add to cartWalt Whitman’s short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Wa
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Schöberlein, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176826
- Language: English
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The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
$39.95 Add to cartMary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the
- Author: Smith, Thomas Ruys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180165
- Language: English
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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Revised)
$19.95 Add to cartThis is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers — George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin — as well as three prolific twentieth-cen
- Series: Southern Literary Studies
- Author: Kennedy, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0807122734
- Language: English
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Which Way Was North: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartIn Which Way Was North, Anne Pierson Wiese juxtaposes poems from her years living in New York City with work written after her relocation to South Dakota. By exploring local, historical, and personal
- Author: Wiese, Anne Pierson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179310
- Language: English
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The Sentence: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartIn The Sentence, Morri Creech interrogates our daily lives and experiences to examine the anxieties and despair that often attend our awareness of mortality. Through a variety of subjects, and through
- Author: Creech, Morri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180157
- Language: English
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Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History
$29.95 Add to cartThough long neglected, the history and experiences of Indigenous women offer a deeper, more complex understanding of southern history and culture. In Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
- Author: Usner, Daniel H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179914
- Language: English
