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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson
The large audience that drove "The Perfect Storm" high on national bestseller lists is sure to welcome this superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 dead in its wake. An unforgettable story of the conflict between human hubris and the last great uncontrollable force, "Isaac's Storm" ...
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Dark Magic
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Christine Feehan
Though a world-famous magician, young Savannah is held in a terrifying thrall by the most powerful of Carpathian males. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori, whispers in Savannah's mind that she has been born to save his immortal soul. And now, in New Orleans, the time has come to claim her.
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All Over But the Shoutin
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Rick Bragg
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's account of making his way in the world, from a humble beginning in poverty-stricken rural Alabama to international fame as a "New York Times" reporter.
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Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires
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A Rice
Pandora tells the story of her life as a politician's daughter in ancient Rome, and her subsequent conversion to vampirism.
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Streetcar Named Desire
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Tennessee Williams
Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle, arrives to see her sister Stella in New Orleans. An alcoholic, clinging to the Southern tradition, she criticizes Stella for losing the family home to marry the rugged and crude Stanley Kowalski. Blanche lives in her own grieving, half-mad fantasy world; this ires Stanley, who ruins her relationship with ...
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Fat Tuesday
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Sandra Brown
Brown turns to New Orleans for her latest passionate work. Here a narcotics cop avenges his partner's unpunished murder by kidnapping the wife of the lawyer who helped the culprit go free. The time the kidnapper and his prey spend in close proximity is tension-filled--in more ways then they ever could have imagined.
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The Awakening & Selected Stories
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: the aristocratic society of southern Louisiana. Condemned at the time it was written, THE AWAKENING has been ...
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
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Mike Tidwell
Tidwell--a celebrated travel and environmental writer--introduces readers to the surprisingly varied population of the Louisiana area. He describes the food, the music, the culture, and the lives of those who live along the bayou--a complex, compelling character itself.
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Merrick
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Anne Rice
The Vampire Armand finished with a tantalising moment - the Vampire Lestat rising from the dead in present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead. Now Lestat lives again but in a twilight world of music and memory. In this volume it is his mesmerizing friend and coeval Louis de Pointe du Lac (originating in 18th ...
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Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival
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Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery, Jean Cassels (Illustrator)
Bobbi and Bob Cat are the best of friends. When their hometown of New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, many lost everything. But not Bobbi and Bob Cat--they still had each other. Only by staying together could they survive. This is the story of their remarkable friendship.
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Midnight Bayou
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N Roberts
Boston lawyer Declan Fitzgerald impulsively gives up his settled life--including a fiancee--to buy Manet Hall, a crumbling plantation manor near New Orleans that he has always coveted. In this southern Gothic setting, he discovers an appropriately sordid story of events long-past but still reverberating, and falls in love with beautiful Cajun ...
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Beneath a Blood Red Moon
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Shannon Drake
Romance is one of the highest circulating genres in libraries today, but many popular titles are published in paperback. Five Star publishes a line of quality Romances by bestselling authors in our durable library-bound hardcover -- guaranteed to stand up to the demands placed on a high-circulation library book -- at prices that make sense for ...
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Island of Saints: A Story of the One Principle That Frees the Human Spirit
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Andy Andrews
Andrews illuminates timeless spiritual truth in in this story of a World War II seaman and the bitter war widow who saves his life. By weaving history, faith, and motivational insights, he offers an easy-to-understand and an easy-to-apply message of unconditional forgiveness and healing.
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Dixie City Jam
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James Lee Burke
Robicheaux confronts a neo-Nazi psychopath who is searching for a sunken Nazi submarine off the Gulf Coast.
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Douglas Brinkley
A New Orleans resident and history professor at Tulane University, Brinkley rips the story of Hurricane Katrina apart and exposes the failures, ulterior motives, and inexperience that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast. 16-page color insert.
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Tears of the Renegade
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Linda Howard
Prodigal son Cord Blackstone returns home to take over the family company and retrieve his birthright, which was stolen from him by his cousin Preston. He falls for Susan Blackstone, widow of another cousin, and embarks an a tumultuous quest for revenge against Preston.
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Heaven's Prisoners
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James Lee Burke
Ex-cop and Vietnam veteran Dave Robicheaux hopes to keep off the bottle and out of trouble by moving from New Orleans to the quiet bayous of rural Louisiana. But when a plane crash introduces him to a young girl in need of help, Robicheaux quickly realizes that his new setting is no less lethal than the big city.
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Plain Jane
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Fern Michaels
Jane Lewis is a psychiatrist with a thriving practice in Rayne, Louisiana. But one day a new patient walks into her office who, Jane suspects, may be one of the perpetrators of a terrible gang rape that she and a friend endured 12 years earlier--and that drove her friend to commit suicide. Now, in addition to possible present danger, Jane must ...
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Purple Cane Road
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James Lee Burke
Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux has just discovered that his late mother may have been a prostitute. As Robicheaux sets out to discover the truth, he becomes embroiled in a second mystery, this one involving the murder of an alleged child molester. These two disparate strands of plot converge against the vivid backdrop of life on the modern ...
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Sunset Limited
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James Lee Burke
Photojournalist Megan Flynn returns home to Louisiana and becomes embroiled in her family's attempts to reconcile their bloody history. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Through the Storm
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Beverly E Jenkins
Sable, a slave on the run to escape the cruel man she's been sold to is forced to betray the charming Union officer Raimond LeVeq, who had romanced her and championed her. Brought together again by fate and an arranged marriage, she must try and win the trust of LeVeq--the man she truly loves.
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Hill Country
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Janice Woods Windle
Based on the author's grandmother's papers and journals, this novel continues the story begun in TRUE WOMEN of Laura Hoge Woods and her friend Rebekah Baines Johnson (who will become the mother of President Lyndon Johnson). Laura's first, doomed love; her marriage to a rancher; her desire to become president, which leads her to a lifelong ...
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River Road Recipes
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Junior League of Baton Rouge, Inc Staff Junior League Of Baton Ro (Editor)
"If there were community cookbook awards, the Oscar for the best performance would go hands down to River Road Recipes". - New York Times. Contains a special section for men. More than 1 million copies sold. Inducted into the Walter S. McIlhenny Cookbook Hall of Fame.
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Black cherry blues
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James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux's friend, Dixie Lee Pugh, needs his help. Robicheaux's former roommate went from country western star to drunk driver, and is currently a struggling ex-con being framed for a crime he swears he didn't commit. Reluctantly, Robicheaux agrees to help Pugh because, if he doesn't, it looks like no one else will.
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
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Michael E Dyson
This work examines what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America - and what lessons we must take from the flood. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and even death. The majority were black, and nearly all were ...
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