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Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes-followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel...
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English
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"On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the devastating impact Hurricane Katrina had on the city of New Orleans, describing the experiences of the city's residents who were forced to endure dangerous conditions as the city's leaders struggled to maintain order and begin the enormous rebuilding process.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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"From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century...
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Dead: one ordinary man. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the worst time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans homicide detective Guy Gautreaux back from his leave of absence in Toussaint, Louisiana.
There's someone in Toussaint Guy will do anything to protect. Jilly Gable is desperate to find the love of the family who abandoned her as a child. And when the wife of a powerful New Orleans antiques dealer
...8) The chef
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Series
Language
English
Description
Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
11) Mardi Gras
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the holiday of Mardi Gras, including how and where it's celebrated and its history"--
12) The yellow house
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
This memoir is about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a neglected New Orleans neighborhood. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother, Ivory Mae, a fiercely determined and recently widowed nineteen-year-old, invested her life savings in a shotgun house in then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East. It was the height of the Space Race and the area was home to a major NASA plant. The optimism of postwar America seemed endless. In the Yellow...
13) Cadillac jukebox
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 9
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author James Lee Burke returns to delight audiobook listeners who crave fast-paced crime fiction with Cadillac Jukebox. This thunderous and introspective audiobook-the ninth book of the award-winning series-pits the earthy and robust Dave Robicheaux against forces of law and power far beyond his control. When a racially-motivated murder nearly three decades old churns back to the surface, Robicheaux is confronted by mob bosses, corrupt...
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux felt the bone-grinding pain rip through his body as the .45 did its damage. Through the agonizing haze that enveloped him, he heard an almost inhuman laugh-the hideous, victorious cackling of Jimmie Lee Boggs-a sound he would never forget. It had started out as an ordinary prisoner transfer, then turned into a blood bath when the convicted murderer got hold of a gun. Robicheaux could still hear that contemptible laughter, replacing...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
"In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers when he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"For fans of sweeping historical literature in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son or Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, an extraordinary US literary debut set in Paris and colonial New Orleans and based on a true story, about three of the 88 young women-among them an orphan, a madwoman, and an abortionist-who were deported to the Louisiana Territory as brides"--
Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across...
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Series
Heaven Lee mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
While visiting New Orleans to help the Sisters of the Holy trinity hold their annual benefit dinner, Chef Heaven Lee of Kansas City becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her old friend's husband.
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Language
English
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“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind;
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”
There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis’...
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”
There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis’...
19) Pirate's alley
Author
Series
Sentinels of New Orleans volume 4
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Wizard sentinel DJ Jaco thought she had gotten used to the chaos of her life in post-Katrina New Orleans, but a new threat is looming, one that will test every relationship she holds dear. Caught in the middle of a rising struggle between the major powers in the supernatural world--the Wizards, Elves, Vampires and the Fae--DJ finds her loyalties torn and her mettle tested in matters both professional and personal."--Amazon.com.
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