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Alabama

A Wallace Hartman Mystery

When a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman struggles to find the killer amid conspiracies and corruption inRiver of Secrets, a gripping new mystery from Roger Johns.

Herbert Marioneaux, a Louisiana politician infamous for changing his mind on hot-button issues, has been murdered and his body posed to send a message. Baton Rouge homicide detective Wallace Hartman has to figure out who's sending that message. DNA points to Eddie Pitkin, a social justice activist who also happens to be the half-brother of Wallace's childhood best friend. But even with the combative history between Pitkin and Marioneaux, murder seems out of character for Pitkin, whose usual MO is to confront the wealthy and powerful with their inconvenient past. As Wallace digs deeper, she unearths a possible alibi witness, along with evidence of a deeply troubled relationship that points the finger of suspicion at Marioneaux's son.

While Eddie's supporters are convinced of his innocence, his enemies are equally certain of his guilt. Under pressure from all directions, Wallace pursues her investigation into the dark heart of the political establishment as Baton Rouge falls under the shadow of escalating violence. When it appears a police department insider may be sabotaging her efforts by leaking information about the case, and after menacing messages are left for her and her loved ones, Wallace is forced to untanglea trail of old and disturbing secrets unaided by those she most needs to trust.

River of Secrets

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Texas

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Dead in the Family

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The ninth installment in the series that inspired the HBO original True Blood offers another exciting undead adventure, which opens with a vampire fashion show, showing just one of the fruits of the author's unique writing style. Original.

Dead and Gone

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From This Day Her Mother's Keeper

From This Day

B.J. Clark despised him. As the manager of the Lakeside Inn, she could only feel contempt for Taylor Reynolds, the man who had bought the hotel. His reputation for transforming lovely hotels into modern resorts preceded him. But when Taylor arrives, B.J.'s loyalties become divided between the hotel and staff and the hot, torrid kisses that she and Taylor share.

Her Mother's Keeper

Gwen may have left Louisiana a starry-eyed innocent, but now she's returned successful and accomplished.

And with enough sense to deal with her mother's maddening boarder, Luke Powers. But once Gwen meets Luke--a man reputed to be an expert in both words and women--her composure disappears. Now she has stars in her eyes but isn't so innocent...



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Minnesota

The Short Films of Sarah Devlin

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West Virginia

A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

Same Kind of Different as Me

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Delaware

A Memoir

"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." --John Grisham

"Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The emotional, incredible true story of Neil White, a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life, and the importance of fatherhood in the most unlikely of places--the last leper colony in the continental United States. In the words of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain), White is "a splendid writer," and In the Sanctuary of Outcasts "a book that will endure."

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

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Louisiana

Niki Dupre mysteries book 1

Murder on Spirit Island

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Washington

Southern Gothic gets a whole new twist in Beware the Wild, now in paperback. Sure to appeal to fans of the bestselling Beautiful Creatures series, New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White called Beware the Wild "American myth at its very best." The swamp in Sterling's small Louisiana town proves to have a power over its inhabitants when her brother disappears and no one but Sterling even remembers that he existed. Now Sterling, with the help of brooding loner Heath, who's had his own creepy experience with the swamp, must fight back and reclaim what—and who—the swamp has taken. Beware the Wild is a riveting and atmospheric page-turner readers will want to devour. And don't miss Behold the Bones, a companion to Beware the Wild!

Beware the Wild

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A Novel

With the recent publication of Plain and Normal, James Wilcox's first book in five years ... with Back Bay's fall 1998 release of a new trade paperback edition of Wilcox's comic masterpiece, Modern Baptists (which Anne Tyler hailed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, which Toni Morrison counts as one of her favorite books by unsung writers, which Harold Bloom has elected to the canon of enduring twentieth-century American literature) ... and now with this new trade paperback edition of Wilcox's highly acclaimed Polite Sex, the story of two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, who seek fame and fortune in New York City ...readers everywhere are discovering the special pleasures of Wilcox's tender and hilarious comic fiction. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Polite Sex

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New York

White Hot

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Massachusetts

Based on the PBS documentary of the same name that aired across the country, The Haunting of Louisiana highlights many of the stories that would not fit into the one-hour television program.

The Haunting of Louisiana

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This bank manager's clients were ready to recall his time. After manager Troy Arceneaux disappears, Niki Dupre finds out that not only did his staff hate him, but his clients despised him. Only his wife, Sandy, seemed to be on Troy's side. But when Niki's investigation leads her to the most ruthless mobster in Baton Rouge, the odds turn against her. Could Blackie Bellamy deal Niki the worst hand she ever held? Murder On Loan is the sixth short story in Jim Riley's exciting Niki Dupre Short Stories mystery series.

Murder on Loan (Niki Dupre Short Stories Book 6)

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Tennessee

North Carolina

Rule Number Forty-eight of The Southern Belle's Handbook might state that '°a proper southern belle never lets on how bored she is," but it's the summer of 1956 and Sissy LeBlanc simply can't help herself. She's been living in stifling old Gentry, Louisiana, since she was born, a trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc -- who, to be perfectly honest, makes 1 skin crawl -- since she was only seventeen. In short, she's fed up, restless, and ready for an adventure. Of course she'd never consider cheating on PeeWee, since she vowed back in '4l remain faithful -- but some days she just can't help but pray that some man will come along and lead her into temptation.

Sissy just never expected her prayers to be answered on that breathless summer day as she sat smoking on her porch swing, contemplating suicide by aspirin and Coca-Cola. For although she might have been fixated on the taut muscles of the lineman shimmying down the telephone pole across the street, she hadn't allowed herself to imagine that he'd be none other than her high school sweetheart Parker Davidson! The former football star and toast of Gentry, Parker had left town in a flash fourteen years before without as much as a wave good-bye (not that she could blame him), but now he was back, standing in her very own kitchen, sipping Cokes over cracked ice and leaning in for a kiss. A kiss Sissy wants to resist but returns with passion -- at least until she opens her eyes to see the faces of her three children pressed against the screen door!

A sassy, sexy, and humorous tale featuring a captivating cast of zany characters that leap off the page, The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc is a charming romp that shifts back and forth in time to reveal just how Sissy got stuck in Gentry -- and how she ultimately breaks out in triumph. Irrepressibly lively and audacious, this highly entertaining novel will resonate in the hearts and minds of readers everywhere.

The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc

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Wisconsin

A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.--

My Sunshine Away

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Missouri

Lila When thirteen-year-old Lila and her family visit Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, her parents and brother scoff at the claim that the house is haunted. Lila isn't so ready to dismiss the idea. Ever since her friend Roberto died, she's been hearing his voice in the middle of the night. But there are no such things as ghosts, are there? Maybe here, at Laurel Oaks, Lila will find out for sure.... Daphne Daphne was alive once, long ago. She was a house slave to Judge Nethercott at Laurel Oaks Plantation. She met her end in the wintry waters of the Mississippi when she was accused of poisoning her master's wife and two little girls. For two centuries, Daphne has been waiting--waiting for the one who can discover the truth and set her spirit free. Could Lila be the one?

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"In this collection of thirteen chilling tales you will explore ghosts along the River Road at some of Louisiana's best known plantations, and also along the back bayous of the state. You will encounter the ghosts of the most haunted house in America, meet ladies in white and black who refuse to leave, learn of spectral children who continue to play, Civil War soldiers trapped where they died, pirates guarding buried treasure, and even the ghost of homes that met a fiery end. These true tales will delight and frighten you during your unique journey through the bayou state"--Back cover.

Louisiana's Haunted Plantations

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Looks back to the years of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's origins in Thornton, Louisiana, during which Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie endure crises of faith, lapses in parenting, brushes with alcoholism, and glimpses into racial bigotry.

Ya-Yas in Bloom

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After the Flood

One of New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2015
One of NPR's Best Books of 2015

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana--on August 29, 2005--journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the city's geography and infrastructure--but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation's great cities.

Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina. Then a staff reporter for The New York Times, he was heading into the city to survey the damage. The Interstate was eerily empty. Soldiers in uniform and armed with assault rifles stopped him. Water reached the eaves of houses for as far as the eye could see.

Four out of every five houses--eighty percent of the city's housing stock--had been flooded. Around that same proportion of schools and businesses were wrecked. The weight of all that water on the streets cracked gas and water and sewer pipes all around town and the deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city's water and sewer system.

People living in flooded areas of the city could not be expected to pay their property taxes for the foreseeable future. Nor would all those boarded-up businesses--21,000 of the city's 22,000 businesses were still shuttered six months after the storm--be contributing their share of sales taxes and other fees to the city's coffers. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce--precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back?

This book traces the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes--politicians and business owners, teachers and bus drivers, poor and wealthy, black and white--as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age and reconstruct, change, and in some cases abandon a city that's the soul of this nation.

Katrina

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The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Now in paperback with a new afterword.... Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson, who feared that President Madison’s men were overlooking the most important target of all: New Orleans. If the British conquered New Orleans, they would control the mouth of the Mississippi River, cutting Americans off from that essential trade route. The new nation’s dreams of western expansion would be crushed before they really got off the ground. Jackson had to convince President Madison and his War Department to take him seriously, even though he wasn’t one of the Virginians and New Englanders who dominated the government. He had to assemble a coalition of frontier militiamen, French-speaking Louisianans, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, freed slaves, and even some pirates. And then he had to face the most powerful military force in the world, in the confusing terrain of the Louisiana bayous. As they did in their previous bestsellers, Kilmeade and Yaeger make history come alive with a riveting true story that will keep you turning the pages. You’ll finish with a new understanding of one of our greatest generals and a renewed appreciation for the brave men who fought so that America could one day stretch “from sea to shining sea.”

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

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Kentucky

Toulouse, Louisiana. Laura Landry's quarterback husband was her ticket out, but after a devastating football injury Brian starts drinking instead of rehabbing his knee. Madison Blanchette waited for bad-boy musician Cash Romero to commit; when wealthy George Dubois asks her out, she figures she may as well wait in style. Claire Thibodeaux doesn't want to end up like her single parent mom, but as her pastor husband Gavin starts spending late nights at work she fears history is about to repeat itself. Gabrielle Vaughn never thought she'd end up with someone like Tony Ford, son of a prominent congressman, but how do you tell the love of your life that everything she told him was a lie? Four women... and no easy answers in matters of the heart.

The Young Wives Club

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Illinois

Don't miss Little Altars Everywhere, the New York Times bestselling companion novel that introduces the Ya-Yas and is also a basis for the film.

Little Altars Everywhere

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Oregon

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Roger Johns

River of Secrets

Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family

Charlaine Harris

Dead and Gone

Nora Roberts

Where the Heart Is -see description

Sarah Devlin

The Short Films of Sarah Devlin

Ron Hall; Denver Moore; Lynn Vincent (As told to)

Same Kind of Different as Me

Neil White

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

Jim Riley

Murder on Spirit Island

Natalie C. Parker

Beware the Wild

James Wilcox

Polite Sex

Sandra Brown

White Hot

Barbara Sillery, Oak Lea, Danielle Genter

The Haunting of Louisiana

Jim Riley

Murder on Loan (Niki Dupre Short Stories Book 6)

Ron Hall; Denver Moore; Lynn Vincent (As told to)

Same Kind of Different as Me

Loraine Despres

The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc

M. O. Walsh

My Sunshine Away

Lois Ruby

**SIGNED** The Secret of Laurel Oaks

Jill Pascoe

Louisiana's Haunted Plantations

Rebecca Wells

Ya-Yas in Bloom

Gary Rivlin

Katrina

Brian Kilmeade; Don Yaeger

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

Julie Pennell

The Young Wives Club

Rebecca Wells

Little Altars Everywhere

Charlaine Harris

Dead until Dark

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