New with slight shelf wear and page discoloration. #Christie #Abingdon #romance #newspaper #friendship #small-town #Louisiana #contemporary #Christian 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Gone To Green series

Goodness Gracious Green #2

New with shelf wear including spine as pictured. #paperback #family #fiction #louisiana #mystery #suspense #contemporary #Christian #Starns

From the author of the popular Million Dollar Mysteries and Smart Chick Mysteries comes a new stand-alone novel full of hidden staircases, buried secrets, and the promise of hope found in knowing God.

Miranda Miller wasn't looking for the news the day the letter came. But, trying to survive in troubled circumstances, she welcomes the chance to change her location for a period of time. The letter informs her that her grandparents' estate is finally about to become hers. She immediately heads down to Louisiana and the old house by the bayou. There Miranda finds secrets that lead to life-changing revelations.

This suspenseful story reminiscent of old Gothic tales has a complex mystery and a vivid sense of the Deep South. It shows how God can take the darkest circumstances and use them to light a bright path leading to the future.

Whispers of the Bayou

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New with slight shelf wear and page discoloration. #Christie #abingdon #contemporary #Christian #marriage# romance #friendship #Louisiana #newspaper

Gone to Green series

The Glory of Green #3

#paperback #tradebook #brothers #louisiana #gangster #theclearing #timgautreaux 

Louisiana

A Novel

In his critically acclaimed new novel, Tim Gautreaux fashions a classic and unforgettable tale of two brothers struggling in a hostile world.
In a lumber camp in the Louisiana cypress forest, a world of mud and stifling heat where men labor under back-breaking conditions, the Aldridge brothers try to repair a broken bond. Randolph Aldridge is the mill's manager, sent by his father--the mill owner--to reform both the damaged mill and his damaged older brother. Byron Aldridge is the mill's lawman, a shell-shocked World War I veteran given to stunned silences and sudden explosions of violence that make him a mystery to Randolph and a danger to himself. Deep in the swamp, in this place of water moccasins, whiskey, and wild card games, these brothers become embroiled in a lethal feud with a powerful gangster. In a tale full of raw emotion as supple as a saw blade, The Clearing is a mesmerizing journey into the trials that define men's souls.

The Clearing

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Book has light shelf-wear, dull/bumped corners, with very light spine creasing on back 1/3 of spine.  Has some light writing inside back cover. Otherwise in good condition with tight, square binding with intact adhesive. No markings on any other pages than those described. #paperback #signed #autograph #autographed #signedcopy #firstedition #love #romance #faith #louisiana

Texas

(2013; 1st/1st; Near Fine)

Camille Gardner, traveling to Samford, Louisiana, in order to negotiate with the locals for their mineral rights, finds herself drawn to the community that she previously hated and begins to question her own motivations.

SIGNED - Sweet Olive

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#nonfiction #religion #adventurestories #africanamerican #truestory #classic #christian #slave #louisiana #texas #art #love


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

The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Same Kind of Different as Me

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Slight wear on cover, page discoloration, staining on bottom page edges. #Herman #DavidCCook #contemporary #Christian #suspense #Louisiana #Afterwords

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Secrets of Roux River Bayou

This intense psychological thriller is the second book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou series from best-selling author Kathy Herman.
 
When elderly Adele Woodmore moves to Les Barbes to be near the Broussards, she wants nothing more than a comfortable, quiet life. Employing men from Father Vince's halfway house for the homeless to do odd jobs, she takes an interest in their lives and is delighted to be helping them get back on their feet.
 
Now a series of murders has cast a pall over the town and one of Adele's handymen becomes a person of interest to the police. But Adele continues to show the young men kindness and care, in spite of her friends' concern. This time that kindness could kill her.

Dangerous Mercy #2

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#caneriver #louisiana #africanamericanwomen #historicalfiction #blackfamily #americanhistory #saga #inspiring #firstedition

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Cane River

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Mississippi

A counting book featuring the fleur-de-lis.

Fleurdelicious

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It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over:

 * St Louis Cathedral, New Orleans
   
 * Bourbon Street, New Orleans
   
 * Capitol Building, Baton Rouge
   
 * Red River Bridge, Shreveport
   
 * Super Dome (New Orleans)
   
 * St John's Cathedral, Lafayete
   
 * City Hall, Lake Charles
   
 * Boardwalk Christmas tree, Bossier City
   
 * A riverboat
   
 * Mississippi River Bridge

"Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Louisiana!"

Santa Is Coming to Louisiana

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#hardcover #fiction #jamesleeburke #daverobicheaux #louisiana 

Colorado

The Glass Rainbow

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#hardcover #louisiana #sex #drugs #psychiatry #psychological

Oklahoma

A novel

The Thanatos Syndrome 

#fiction #novel #paperback #adult #neworleans #louisiana 

Wisconsin

"Suffused with the mystical charm of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou, Leganski's lyrical debut novel conjures dreams of voodoo, the power of healing, and the distinction between hearing and listening. This extraordinary, evocative novel will cast a spell over fans of magical realism in the vein of Alice Hoffman, Kaye Gibbons, and Sarah Addison Allen. Simply enchanting." -- Library Journal (starred review)

A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore, and exposes a murder that threatens the souls of those who love him.

Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. But he was listening, placing sound inside quiet and gaining his bearings. By the time he turns five, he can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He also hears the voice of his dead father, William Arrow, mysteriously murdered by a man known only as the Wanderer.

Exploring family relics, he opens doors to the past and finds the key to a web of secrets that both hold his family together, and threaten to tear them apart.

Set against the backdrop of 1950s New Orleans, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is a magical story about the lost art of listening and a wondrous little boy who brings healing to the souls of all who love him.

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

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#romance #thriller #massmarket #louisiana #intrigue #paperback 

Florida

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heartbreaker comes a thrilling novel of passion and obsession featuring attorney Theo Buchanan. Like his FBI agent brother Nick, Theo Buchanan is devoted to his crime-fighting career. Unlike his brother, he works the other side of the desk as an esteemed Justice Department attorney and rarely sees on-the-field action—until he comes to the aid of Dr. Michelle Renard, a beautiful and brilliant surgeon in Bowen, Louisiana, who recently saved his own life. Michelle’s medical clinic has been vandalized, and the investigation uncovers a deadly ring of criminals bent on preserving their secrecy at any cost. They call themselves the Sowing Club: four white-collar professionals whose sophisticated crimes have amassed millions of dollars in a Cayman Islands bank account. The group is bound by a pact to leave the cash untouched until they accumulate a certain amount, but their leader, John, is distracted by and nearly bankrupt from his wife's grave illness. Knowing what must be done, John turns to his three friends to mercy-kill his wife, but the line between mercy and murder quickly vanishes.... As the relentless and cold-blooded Sowing Club sets out to silence Michelle, the one person who has information that could destroy them, Theo confronts the lies, greed, and evil that bind the lethal foursome—and risks more than he ever has before. Michelle saved his life...now can he save hers?

Mercy

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#Cajun cooking #Louisiana cooking #chef Emeril #Emeril Lagasse 

"Nowhere else have I found the passion for flavor that encompasses the lives of Louisianians, day in and day out," writes Emeril Lagasse. In Louisiana Real & Rustic, the prize winning New Orleans chef, cookbook author, and television cooking personality presents the great dishes of his adopted state in 150 down-home recipes--authentic versions of some of Americas favorite regional dishes, gathered from generations of Louisiana cooks. Fricassees, itouffies and grillades, meat pies and oyster fries, red beans and rice, and jambalayas and gumbos in endless, mouthwatering variety--each recipe is spiced with the unabashed joy of cooking and eating that makes every Louisiana meal a feast. On a delicious tour of back roads and bayous, from country cabins in Acadia to the refined town houses of Creole aristocracy, Emeril, accompanied by co-author Marcelle Bienvenu, finds that Louisiana is more than a geographical state--it's a culinary state of grace. Louisiana's colorful history has made it an extraordinary culinary crossroads, where the cooking customs of France, Spain, Africa, and the Caribbean meld into a unique New World Cuisine. In charming tales and tempting recipes, Emeril traces the roots of Creole and Acadian (or "Cajun") dishes, and honors the pioneer cooks who blended traditional tastes and techniques with the region's native ingredients. He shows how gumbos can use French roux, African okra, or fili from the indigenous Indians and he features Chicken and Oyster, Duck and Wild Mushroom, Shrimp and Okra, and Rabbit, or even collards, kale, mustard, and turnips. Emeril's explorations reveal that the spirit of culinary improvisation still thrives today. "Nowhere else have I found the passion for flavor that encompasses the lives of Louisianians, day in and day out," writes Emeril Lagasse. In Louisiana Real & Rustic, the prize winning New Orleans chef, cookbook author, and television cooking personality presents the great dishes of his adopted state in 150 down-home recipes--authentic versions of some of Americas favorite regional dishes, gathered from generations of Louisiana cooks. Fricassees, itouffies and grillades, meat pies and oyster fries, red beans and rice, and jambalayas and gumbos in endless, mouthwatering variety--each recipe is spiced with the unabashed joy of cooking and eating that makes every Louisiana meal a feast. On a delicious tour of back roads and bayous, from country cabins in Acadia to the refined town houses of Creole aristocracy, Emeril, accompanied by co-author Marcelle Bienvenu, finds that Louisiana is more than a geographical state--it's a culinary state of grace. Louisiana's colorful history has made it an extraordinary culinary crossroads, where the cooking customs of France, Spain, Africa, and the Caribbean meld into a unique New World Cuisine. In charming tales and tempting recipes, Emeril traces the roots of Creole and Acadian (or "Cajun") dishes, and honors the pioneer cooks who blended traditional tastes and techniques with the region's native ingredients. He shows how gumbos can use French roux, African okra, or fili from the indigenous Indians and he features Chicken and Oyster, Duck and Wild Mushroom, Shrimp and Okra, and Rabbit, or even collards, kale, mustard, and turnips. Emeril's explorations reveal that the spirit of culinary improvisation still thrives today.

Louisiana Real and Rustic

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#paperback #Louisiana #ya #youngreaders #mystery #summer #explore #adventure #booktok 

Georgia

A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist.

It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family's magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? Jewell Parker Rhodes weaves a rich tale celebrating the magic within.

Bayou Magic

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#hardcover #recipes #cooking #louisiana. Recipes for every month

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

A Cookbook of Festive Favorites from the Junior League of Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana

Reflecting over 300 years of the rich colorful heritage of Northwest Louisiana, the twelve monthly chapters are arranged by seasonal favorites with helpful tips, making entertaining never so easy!

Mardi Gras to Mistletoe

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#paperback #travel #restaurants #Louisiana #south

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Statewide Guide to LA.s Finest Dining out Experiences

Imagine preparing signature dishes from over 100 of Louisiana's leading restaurants right in your own kitchen. These 350 recipes will enable you to do just that! From the Chicken and Andouille Smoked Sausage Gumbo at K-Paul's to the White Chocolate Bread Pudding at Commander's Palace, world-renowned Louisiana restaurant recipes are now at your fingertips.

Louisiana's Best Restaurant Recipes

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The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick--the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's ancestral past.

#paperback #sandrabrown #louisiana #fiction

White Hot

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#hardcover #suspense #horror #horrorfiction #thriller #evil #louisiana #pageturner

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North Carolina

When Ted & Janet Conway inherit his ancestral home in St. Albans, Louisiana, they see it as a chance to start over, until a malignant aura infects the Conway children, twins Kimberly and Jared.

The Right Hand of Evil

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#hardcover #louisiana #racism #kukluxklan ##biography #history

A Family History in White Supremacy

"A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance." --Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review

A 2020 NPR staff pick | One of The New York Times' thirteen books to watch for in August | One of The Washington Post's ten books to read in August | A Literary Hub best book of the summer| One of Kirkus Reviews' sixteen best books to read in August

The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award-winner Edward Ball

Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family's anti-black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail.

Sifting through family lore about "our Klansman" as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages--all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. To offer a non-white view of the Ku-klux, Ball seeks out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by "our Klansman" and his comrades, and shares their stories.

For whites, to have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. That is, one-half of white Americans could write a Klan family memoir, if they wished.

In an era when racist ideology and violence are again loose in the public square, Life of a Klansman offers a personal origin story of white supremacy. Ball's family memoir traces the vines that have grown from militant roots in the Old South into the bitter fruit of the present, when whiteness is again a cause that can veer into hate and domestic terror.

Judy Christie

Goodness Gracious Green #2

Mindy Starns Clark

Whispers of the Bayou

Judy Christie

The Glory of Green #3

Tim Gautreaux

The Clearing

Judy Christie

SIGNED - Sweet Olive

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

Same Kind of Different as Me

Kathy Herman

Dangerous Mercy #2

Lalita Tademy

Cane River

Renee Radelat Hemel; Mary Morrison Touzet; Wendy Bridevaux (Illustrator)

Fleurdelicious

Steve Smallman; Robert Dunn (Illustrator)

Santa Is Coming to Louisiana

James Lee Burke

The Glass Rainbow

Walker Percy

The Thanatos Syndrome

Rita Leganski

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

Julie Garwood

Mercy

Emeril Lagasse; Marcelle Bienvenu; Brian Smale (Photographer); Steven Freeman (Photographer)

Louisiana Real and Rustic

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Bayou Magic

Junior League of Shreveport-Bossier Inc

Mardi Gras to Mistletoe

John M. Bailey

Louisiana's Best Restaurant Recipes

Lalita Tademy

Cane River

Sandra Brown

White Hot

John Saul

The Right Hand of Evil

Edward Ball

Life of a Klansman

Lalita Tademy

Cane River

Thandie Buthelezi Laurel Dingrando Nicholas Hainen Cheryl Wistrom Dinah Zike

Chemistry