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Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
$39.95 Add to cartIn Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to de
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0807178543
- Language: English
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Kingfish U: Huey Long and Lsu
$34.95 Add to cartNo political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguishe
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179523
- Language: English
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Court of No Record: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry
Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fail- Author: Molberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179027
- Language: English
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
$44.95 Add to cartMarlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was
- Author: Trestman, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807172901
- Language: English
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For Today: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartA revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree’s For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father’s death and struggles to raise he
- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Hembree, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181420
- Language: English
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Unusually Grand Ideas: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartTitled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis
- Author: May, James Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: February 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807176591
- Language: English
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Alabama: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartAlabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved stran
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Jones, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180106
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town
$49.95 Add to cartA. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders, and homeowners to embrace the finest elements of Lo
- Author: Vetter, Cyril E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0807123714
- Language: English
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The Earl of Louisiana
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long’s commitment to a mental institut
- Author: Liebling, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133434
- Language: English
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A Confederacy of Dunces
$34.95 Add to cartAfter four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Tool
- Author: Toole, John Kennedy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 11, 2014
- ISBN10: 0807159603
- Language: English
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The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
$39.95 Add to cartKilled in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat. His unexpected demise had cascadin
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180483
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (Revised)
$24.95 Add to cart“He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot’s elbow–a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her sho
- Author: Delavigne, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 07, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807152919
- Language: English
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The Sazerac
$24.95 Add to cartThe Sazerac ranks among the most famous drinks of a city famous for its drinking, but where did the classic New Orleans cocktail originate? Drinks journalist Tim McNally dives into the history of the
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: McNally, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0807171662
- Language: English
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I Am One of You Forever
$29.95 Add to cartWonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy’s coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II
- Author: Chappell, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01, 1987
- ISBN10: 0807114103
- Language: English
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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$44.95 Add to cartOver 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed noveli
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180459
- Language: English
