#paperback #fiction #annerice #vampire #historicalfiction #horror #neworleans #vampires 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Recounting his first two hundred years of life, a vampire tells of his erotic alliance with Claudia, whose passions are forever locked up in the body of a child

Interview with the Vampire

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#paperback #neworleans #spirtsofneworleans #travel

New Jersey

Voodoo Curses, Vampire Legends, and Cities of the Dead

Hop In and Hang On for New Orleans' Grandest Ghost Hunt!

The city of New Orleans is formed into the shape of a crescent, which is believed by many people to form a sacred chalice that holds and stores energy, making it a unique area in which to perform magic and see it magnify due to the energy in the land and from the flowing waters of the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. Since childhood, author Kala Ambrose has seen and felt ghosts and restless spirits. As your travel guide, Kala explores the history of the city and those who decided to make it their eternal home. Embark on a unique and enticing journey into the haunted history and magical ceremonies of New Orleans. Prepare to be introduced to supernatural rituals and practices in order to fully understand and embrace the cultural significance of the variety of beliefs, superstitions, legends, and lore in this singular city.

Spirits of New Orleans

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An Introduction

Antebellum New Orleans was home to thousands of urbane, educated and well to do free blacks. The French called them "les gens de couleur libre", the free people of color; after the Civil War they were known as the Creoles of color, shortened today to simply Creoles. Theirs was and ambiguous status, sharing the French language, Catholic religion and European education of the elite whites, who were often blood relatives, but also keeping African and indigenous American influences from their early heritage. - back cover.

The Free People of Color of New Orleans

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Doll-baby

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Nebraska

La Cuisine De La Maison Destrehan

Bienvenue

#paperback #fiction #neworleans #vampire #southern #youngadult #fantasy #ya 

An ALA Morris Award Finalist !

In this "equal parts heartbreaking and joyful" (School Library Journal) debut YA novel that's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans with her estranged best friend to find a vampire to save her dying father.

Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it's clear that's not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself--so that she can become one and then save her father.

Armed with research, speculations, and desperation--and helped by her estranged best friend, Henry--Victoria travels to New Orleans in search of a miracle. There she meets Nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires. But first, he needs Victoria to prove she loves life enough to live forever.

She agrees to complete a series of challenges, from scarfing sugar-drenched beignets to singing with a jazz band, all to show she has what it takes to be immortal. But truly living while her father is dying feels like a betrayal. Victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that Nicholas will hold up his end of the bargain...because the alternative is too impossible to imagine.

Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things

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(Publisher’s Description) Dixieland jazz floating on a sultry breeze, inviting courtyards veiled behind Spanish moss, and above all, a cuisine as marvelously rich and varied as the inhabitants themselves: New Orleans is truly a city like no other.  From the mouth of the Mississippi River comes a melting pot cuisine inspired by the bounty of the surrounding bayous.  Cajun and Creole cooks spice up an array of regional specialties, from beignets to etouffees, and every festival-including Mardi Gras-comes with its own set of must-try dishes.  From neighborhood institutions dishing up platters of seafood to historic hangouts like Galatoire’s, an abundance of restaurants, cafes, markets, and bars satisfies local appetite for good food and good times.  On top of having some awesome recipes, this would be a great coffee table book or kitchen island book to have on display.  #hardcover #nonfiction #neworleans #southern #cooking #cookbooks 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

West Virginia

Authentic Recipes Celebrating the Foods of the World

Williams-Sonoma New Orleans

#hardcover #fiction #neworleans #alexjennings #fantasy #magic #nola 

Illinois

In a fantastical version of New Orleans where music is magic, a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song in this vibrant and imaginative debut. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women keep the order, and where songs walk, talk and keep the spirit of the city alive. To those from Far Away, Nola might seem strange. To failed magician, Perilous Graves, it's simply home. Then the rhythm stutters. Nine songs of power have escaped from the magical piano that maintains the city's beat and without them, Nola will fail. Unexpectedly, Perry and his sister, Brendy, are tasked with saving the city. But a storm is brewing and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Even if they capture the songs, Nola's time might be coming to an end.

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

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Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Southern Gothic thriller from #1 bestselling author Lisa Jackson! A serial killer is on the loose in The Big Easy, murdering victims in pairs, and it's up to New Orleans detective Reuben Montoya to stop him...

Now available for the first time in trade paperback, Lisa Jackson's blockbuster New York Times and USA Today bestselling Southern Gothic thriller featuring New Orleans detective Reuben Montoya in a race to catch a serial killer on the loose in The Big Easy...

Thanks to years of working with the dark side of society, Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya's youthful swagger is gone, replaced by straightforward determination. He'll need it, because a serial killer is turning The Big Easy into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs-no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues.

His only lead is Abby Chastain, ex-wife of one of the victims. Twenty years ago, Abby watched in horror as her mother, a patient at the Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, plunged through a window to her death-and Abby has always dreaded that she too would one day go insane. Abby's honest fear gets to Montoya. His gut tells him she's innocent, and that there's something significant about the once-grand hospital. Abby can help unlock the mystery-if only Montoya can get her to trust him enough to face the ghosts of her past.

As more bodies are found in gruesome, staged scenarios and the FBI moves in, Montoya's in a desperate race to find a killer who's getting closer all the time. Plunging deep into a nightmare investigation will uncover a shocking revelation-a deadly connection between Abby and Montoya and an asylum where unspeakable crimes were committed, evil once roamed free, and a human predator still waits...

Shiver

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Signed by author on inside front page as shown in photo. 
2007, 160 pages, hardcover 
New. 
#cooking #cookbook #cook #chef #foodie #maritius #nola #neworleans 

Ohio

One of America's most innovative chefs delves into a lesser-known aspect of global cuisine: the effect of crossing cultures, and therefore cuisines, in the world's tropical belt. Nearly all major European and Asian cultures have had adventures (and misadventures) in the tropics for more than a thousand years, leaving behind an exotic, tangled, and delicious web of influences. Once thought to be the simple home of the pineapple or coconut, the tropics from the Caribbean to Latin America to India to Vietnam are now understood to be one of the most fascinating culinary regions imaginable.

Dominique's Tropical Latitudes

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Missouri

A Novel

A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting ... in its intimacy" (The New York Times Book Review).

When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.

But with time, Huong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Huong gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuan tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity--as individuals and as a family--threatens to tear them apart, un­til disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.

Things We Lost to the Water

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#paperback #fantasy #neworleans #vampire #youngadult 

Arizona

An intricately woven tale of romantic suspense follows Dr. Samantha Leeds, a popular late-night radio host who is being stalked by an enigmatic serial killer and haunted by a woman from her past, as she joins forces with Detective Rick Bentz to find the psychopath who is determined to make Samantha pay for her sins with her life.

Hot Blooded

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Colorado

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book Review

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the house would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child.

A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the 'Big Easy' of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority and power.

The Yellow House

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Louisiana

The first book -- an instant bestseller -- in the sumptuous, sultry, and romantic YA vampire series from New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh.

The Beautiful

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A STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT
AN IMMIGRANT VIETNAMESE FAMILY THAT SETTLES IN NEW ORLEANS AND STRUGGLES TO REMAIN CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER AS THEIR LIVES ARE INEXTRICABLY RESHAPED

When Huong arrives in New Orleans in 1979 with her two young sons, she is job. less, homeless, and worried about her hus-band, Công, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Công, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up knowing their father.
But with time, Hong realizes she will never see her husband again. While she attempts to come to terms with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh, grow up in their absent father's shadow, haunted by a man and a country trapped in their memories and imaginations. As they push forward, the three adapt to life in America in different ways: Hung gets involved with a Vietnamese car salesman who is also new in town; Tuán tries to connect with his heritage by joining a local Vietnamese gang; and Binh, now going by Ben, embraces his adopted homeland and his burgeoning sexuality. Their search for identity--as individuals and as a fami-ly-threatens to tear them apart, until disaster strikes the city they now call home and they are suddenly forced to find a new way to come together and honor the ties that bind them.

California

#paperback #tpb #trade #valiant #graphicnovel #indie #shadowman #supernatural #NewOrleans 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Birth Rites, Darque Reckoning, Deadside Blues

 * There's a million dreams in the Big Easy. But now its worst nightmare isabout to come true. As the forces of darkness prepare to claim New Orleans astheir own, Jack Boniface must embrace the legacy he was born to uphold. AsShadowman, Jack is about to become the only thing that stands between his cityand an army of unspeakable monstrosities from beyond the night. But is themantle of Shadowman a blessing, or a curse? And what is the true cost of hisotherworldly power?
 * From rising star Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) andcomics superstar Patrick Zircher (Captain America, Hulk), this volume collectsSHADOWMAN #1-4.




Shadowman vol. 1-3

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Fusing the rich culinary rraditions of Creole cooking with the best of American regional cuisines, Emeril Lagasse collects dozens of recipes for any occassion. This forst edition, containing recipes ranging from Okra Gumbo to Oysta Pasta, showcases the full breadth of the award-winning chef's culinary abilities can become the tools of avid cook book reader. 

Emeril Lagasse fuses the rich traditions of Creole cookery with the best of America's regional cuisines and adds a vibrant new palette of tastes, ingredients, and styles. The heavy sauces, the long-cooked roux, and the smothered foods that were the heart of old-style New Orleans cooking have been replaced by simple fresh ingredients and easy cooking techniques with a light touch. Emeril serves up a masterpiece in his first cookbook, Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking. Emeril offers not only hundred of easy-to-prepare recipes, but plenty of professional tips, shortcuts, and useful information about stocking your own New Orleans pantry and making your own seasonings.

Emeril's New New Orleans

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Signed! Never read. #memoir #history #politics #race #nola #confederacy #racism #whitesupremacy #neworleans #signed 

Pennsylvania

A White Southerner Confronts History

When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history.

SIGNED - In the Shadow of Statues

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First published in hardcover: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.

Midnight Bayou

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When Mary McAlistair's father dies leaving the whole estate to her scheming stepmother, Mary decides to journey to New Orleans to learn her Creole background and a secret from her past.

New Orleans Legacy

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Fairyloot edition, signed by the author with reverse dust jacket art by Merwild. Map of New Orleans and author letter/print included

North Carolina

#paperback #nonfiction #neworleans #jazz #music #louisarmstrong

My Life in New Orleans

”In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.” So says Louis Armstrong, a tough kid who just happened to be a musical genius, about one of the places where he performed and grew up. This raucous, rich tale of his early days in New Orleans concludes with his departure to Chicago at twenty-one to play with his boyhood idol King Oliver, and tells the story of a life that began, mythically, on July 4, 1900, in the city that sowed the seeds of jazz.

Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire

Kala Ambrose

Spirits of New Orleans

Mary Gehman

The Free People of Color of New Orleans

Laura Lane McNeal

Doll-baby

River Road Historical Society

Bienvenue

Margie Fuston

Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things

Constance Snow

Williams-Sonoma New Orleans

Alex Jennings

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Lisa Jackson

Shiver

Dominique Macquet; John DeMers; Sarah Essex (Photographer)

Dominique's Tropical Latitudes

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Margie Fuston

Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things

Lisa Jackson

Hot Blooded

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Renée Ahdieh

The Beautiful

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Patrick Zircher (Artist, Cover Design by); Justin Jordan

Shadowman vol. 1-3

Emeril Lagasse; Brian Smale (Photographer)

Emeril's New New Orleans

Mitch Landrieu

SIGNED - In the Shadow of Statues

Nora Roberts

Midnight Bayou

Alexandra Ripley

New Orleans Legacy

Renee Adieh

The Beautiful

Louis Armstrong

Satchmo