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

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

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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Sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Sookie goes to Louisiana to claim the inheritance of her cousin Hadley. #fantasyfiction #fantasy #paperback #bestseller #charlaineharris #trueblood #vampires #Louisiana #supernatural  

California

Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6)

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#vintage #cookbooks #vintagecookbook #louisiana #cuisine
Vintage cookbook. Inscription as shown. Small stains on cover.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

All tested & easy to prepare, you'll find 400 recipes for foods as simple as Baked Crunchy Trout & as impressive as her sinfully delicious Banana Eclair & there's a special section on everyone's weakness, Chocolate Favorites.

From a Louisiana Kitchen

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Arkansas

A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs

Exiled to rural Louisiana in the 1920s after being diagnosed with leprosy, socialite Mirielle, unable to accept her new reality, stays away from other residents until she finds both community and purpose and must choose to stay or return to a life she isn't sure she has anymore.

The Second Life of Mirielle West

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#paperback #nonfiction #louisiana #memoir #neworleans #sarahmbroom #africanamerican 

Missouri

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

The Yellow House

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Three books from the Sookie Stackhouse series, basis for the TV series True Blood. All are first editions. No writing and no owner name. Combined retail price $76.85. Titles: “From Dead to Worse,” “Dead and Gone” and “Dead in the Family.” DJs all crisp, not price clipped and have minimal edge wear. “Dead and Gone” has a corner fold on inside DJ flap. “Dead in the Family” has glue residue on cover from price label. #firstedition #hardcover #bundle #fiction #vampires #sookiestackhouse #supernatural #Louisiana #tv #bestseller

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Sookie Stackhouse BUNDLE 

Book is in great shape with lots of life left! 

Iowa

#women #literature #womenauthors #history #louisiana
Some highlighting in book otherwise is very good condition.

New York

This is the true, unvarnished life story of the girl who grew up to write The Awakening, a masterpiece published 100 years ago. With its portrayal of a woman whose sexual desires take her outside marriage, it rocked American literature's cozy conception of womanhood.

In Unveiling Kate Chopin Emily Toth, the foremost authority on Chopin's life and works, creates a sharply revealing portrait of a modern woman in a Victorian world. Born in St. Louis in 1850, Kate O'Flaherty was raised by wealthy, feisty widows and educated by brilliant nuns. She endured a mysterious ""outrage"" committed against her by Union soldiers in her teens and suffered what moderns now call a ""loss of voice."" But she survived to become a lively, dangerously clever social observer.

She had the talent and then the life experiences to become a writer. Her Louisiana-born husband, Oscar Chopin, had grown up in France and did not restrict her. In New Orleans (where she gossiped with the painter Edgar Degas) and then in rural Louisiana (where the neighbors hated her), Kate produced six children in nine years. Yet she retained her individuality and her wicked sense of humor. After her husband's sudden death, Kate's affair with another woman's husband was a village scandal--but following the lessons of the French women who raised her, she knew when to leave.

After the death of her mother, Kate reinvented herself as the author of engaging short stories set in Louisiana. Many had unusual social messages. ""In Sabine"" opposed domestic violence. ""At the 'Cadian Ball"" supported sexual expression for women. ""Odalie Misses Mass"" suggested that interracial friendships between African American and white women were possible. She condemned the idle rich and celebrated single mothers. To promote her own career, she created the first salon in St. Louis and became the first woman in the city to become a professional fiction writer. Although she claimed to be un-serious about her craft, newly discovered manuscripts, which Toth mines for the insights they offer, reveal her as a dedicated artist who wanted to reach her readers' hearts.

Toth portrays Chopin as a bright, ambitious woman who ruffled staid souls, and when she published The Awakening, her foes pounced. Many reviews of the novel were uncomprehending; many were vicious and her next book was canceled. Her family suffered; her health declined; and Chopin died in 1904, silenced ahead of her time. Now, a century later, Toth sees Chopin as a woman of unique wit and astonishing talent and as the daring author who wrote the most radical, notorious American novel of the late nineteenth century.

Unveiling Kate Chopin

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Pennsylvania

Book One of the Vampire Earth

Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
 
On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine. Brought into the special forces of The Wolves--an elite guerilla force sworn to win back Earth--this is Valentine's first command in the Kurian Zone. Driven by the losses of his past and the hope of a future, Valentine is in it to win. No matter how long it takes. No matter what doom of fate awaits him beyond his wildest nightmares.
 
"If The Red Badge of Courage had been written by H.P. Lovecraft."--Paul Witcover, author of Waking Beauty

Way of the Wolf

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#paperback #family #fiction #louisiana #mystery #suspense #treasure 

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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#paperback #friendship #louisiana #historical #slavery 

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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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

In a small town deep in the bayou, seventeen-year-old Grey searches for answers about the disappearance of her best friend, uncovering long-held secrets that threaten everything she believed about herself, her family, her friends, and her home.

Dark and Shallow Lies

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Oklahoma

Welcome to Louisiana & Welcome to Homegrown Let Justin Wilson introduce you to the bounty of Louisiana and the food of friendship and family. In Justin Wilson's Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' Justin serves up all the recipes from his Homegrown television series in addition to hundreds more for: * Appetizers* Salads and Dressings Gumbos and Soups* Sauces and Gravies Rice, Pasta, and Stuffings* Seafood Poultry and Eggs* Meats* Game Vegetables* Breads* Desserts Beverages* Preserves So, come to Louisiana and enjoy some good cookin' and eatin' -I garontee

Justin Wilson's Homegrown Louisiana Cookin'

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#cityguide #neworleans #louisiana #crescentcity #travel #travelguide

Florida

A native’s guide to the crescent city 

New Orleans on the Half Shell

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Mississippi

The Boy

#paperback #smalltown #gossip #louisiana #humor #sliceoflife #americanlife

Texas

A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

The two main occupations in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles. And in this early spring of 1952, there is ample opportunity for both—with sixteen-year-old and pregnant (by the Baptist minister) Olive Nepper, currently languishing in a coma after drinking pop laced with rose poison. But the plight of Olive and her family is hardly the only story spicing up the rumor mill in this small Southern community of unpredictable eccentrics, wandering husbands, and unsatisfied wives—and few local sins will be put right by home cooking.

From Michael Lee West comes a beautifully rendered portrait of small-town Southern life, filled with humanity that brilliantly weaves comedy with dark calamity.

She Flew the Coop

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Louisiana Author

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Louisiana

Charlotte Avery: Hopelessly in love with her married boss abandons a successful career and endearing friendships to seek happiness elsewhere.Publisher playboy Marc Holloman: Avoids commitment until lovely Charlotte bursts into his life and forces him to confront self-erected barriers.Jonathan Wanamaker: Straight-laced father of six never cheats on his soul mate until an irresistible temptation reveals his family is not enough.

Choice Makers

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A history of New Orleans 

Beautiful crescent 

Four first editions, first printings from the popular Sookie Stackhouse series. Combined retail price $91.80. All books have clean pages, no writing, no owner name. All DJs are crisp with minimal edge wear (no tears). Titles: “Definitely Dead,” “All Together Dead,” “Dead as a Doornail” and “Dead to the World” - spine slightly askew on the last title. #fiction #hardcover #firstedition #vampires #Louisiana #telepathy #bestseller #tv #sookiestackhouse #trueblood

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

#cajun #louisiana #batonrouge #cooking #gumbo #seafoodboil #catfish #oysters #crab #creole #onemillioncopies  

Baton Rouge

River Road Recipes

Illinois

White Hot

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Copyright 1945, presumed first edition. “GUMBO YA-YA (EVERYBODY TALKS AT ONCE) is a phrase often heard in the Bayou country of Louisiana. This is a book of the living folklore of LA. The result is a racy kaleidoscope of incident, superstition, character and history.” Book is intact with considerable wear: cracked front hinge, two pages with closed tears, faded boards and spine, bumped corners and spine with some fraying, owner name on title page. No DJ except what remains of the front flap (this has been attached to FFEP). Please see photos. STILL…this is the undercrust world of Louisiana that nobody had written of before, with B&W photos. (6B)

Gumbo Ya-Ya

A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou



2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist



The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).



In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful white supremacists in the South, a man called simply "The Judge."



In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. Using first-person interviews, in-depth research and a deep knowledge of the law, Van Meter shows how Gary Duncan's insistence on seeking justice empowered generations of defendants-disproportionately poor and black-to demand fair trials. Duncan v. Louisiana changed American law, but first it changed the lives of those who litigated it.

SIGNED - Deep Delta Justice

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From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice.nbsp;nbsp;And with the publication of The Witching Hour, she created for us yet another world and legend, and both the chorus of praise and the multitudes of her readers once more increased.

Now, Anne Rice brings us again--even more magically--into the midst of the dynasty of witches she introduced in The Witching Hour.

At the center:nbsp;nbsp;the brilliant an beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, and Lasher, the darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil spell and vision she must now flee.nbsp;nbsp;She takes with her their terrifying and exquisite child, one of "a brood of children born knowing, able to stand and talk on the first day."

Rowan's attempt to escape Lasher and his pursuit of her and their child are at the heart of this extraordinary saga.nbsp;nbsp;It is a novel that moves around the globe, backward and forward through time, and between the human and demonic worlds.nbsp;nbsp;Its many voices--of women, of men, of demons and angels, present and past--haunt and enchant us.nbsp;nbsp;With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of occult and spiritual aspirations and passion.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Bayou Magic

Charlaine Harris

Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6)

Holly Berkowitz Clegg; Beverly Jarrett; Elizabeth F. Randall (Illustrator)

From a Louisiana Kitchen

Amanda Skenandore

The Second Life of Mirielle West

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse BUNDLE

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Emily Toth

Unveiling Kate Chopin

E. E. Knight

Way of the Wolf

Mindy Starns Clark; Kim Moore (Editor)

Whispers of the Bayou

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

Same Kind of Different as Me

Ginny Myers Sain

Dark and Shallow Lies

Justin Wilson

Justin Wilson's Homegrown Louisiana Cookin'

Alan Graham

New Orleans on the Half Shell

Tami Hoag

The Boy

Michael Lee West

She Flew the Coop

Eleanor Cocreham

Choice Makers

Garvey and Widmer

Beautiful crescent

Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse BUNDLE

The Junior League

River Road Recipes

Sandra Brown

White Hot

Lyle Saxon, etc

Gumbo Ya-Ya

Matthew Van Meter

SIGNED - Deep Delta Justice

Anne Rice

Lasher