My favorite read of 2022!! This is such a fun ride. And the prose reads like jazz. #hardcover #fiction #neworleans #fantasy #magic #nola #alexjennings #lgbtqia #ghosts #spooky 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

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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#haunting #ghost #neworleans #supernatural #fantasy

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

The demonic ghost of a Russian aristocrat uses his magic violin to enchant the exquisite Triana and transport her to a terrifying realm where they join a battle of wills, in an evocative tale of seduction. Reprint.

Violin

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

Illinois

#paperback #w  by nonfiction #louisiana #neworleans #sarahmbroom #unopened #memoir #africanamerican 

Pennsylvania

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

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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Small scratched on back cover - see last photo  #fiction #historical #historicalfiction #histfic #hardcover #1920s #NewOrleans 

Florida

a novel

The Mercy of Thin Air

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#horror #fiction #hardcover #annerice #vampires #neworleans

North Carolina

The Vampire Chronicles

A tale spanning periods from the ancient to the modern world reunites fans with beloved characters, from Louis de Pointe Lac and the eternally young Armand to David Talbot and Marius, who hear a mysterious voice urging ancients to destroy increasing populations of maverick vampires. 300,000 first printing.

Prince Lestat

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#paperback #Graham #HeatherGraham #NewOrleans #LA #Louisiana #mystery #romance

Arizona

I didn't do it. Those are the words Ann Marcel's ex-husband, Jon, mutters the day he staggers through her front door, covered in blood. Five years after their divorce, Ann and Jon remain good friends, still living in Jon's beloved New Orleans hometown. But her relationship to both is about to take a life-changing turn. Because Jon is charged with murdering a stripper. And to save him, Ann will have to immerse herself in the darkest corners of the Big Easy, searching its erotic clubs and seamy jazz spots for clues.

To complicate matters, there's the magnetic lieutenant determined to bring Jon to justice. Ann can't seem to throw him off her trail-or out of her dreams. But despite that troubling distraction, Ann has bigger concerns. Soon, she's not only embroiled in a fight for Jon's freedom, but for her own life...



Down in New Orleans

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#paperback #fantasy #neworleans #vampire #youngadult 

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

Louisiana

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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#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #theyellowhouse #neworleans 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

#paperback #america #disaster #hurricanekatrina #government #neworleans #michaelericdyson 

Maryland

Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black; nearly all were poor. The Federal government's slow response to local appeals for help is by now notorious. Yet despite the cries of outrage that have mounted since the levees broke, we have failed to confront the disaster's true lesson: to be poor, or black, in today's ownership society, is to be left behind. Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim and fans all across the color line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Combining interviews with survivors of the disaster with his deep knowledge of black migrations and government policy over decades, Dyson provides the historical context that has been sorely missing from public conversation. He explores the legacy of black suffering in America since slavery and ties its psychic scars to today's crisis. And, finally, his critique of the way black people are framed in the national consciousness will shock and surprise even the most politically savvy reader. With this clarion call Dyson warns us that we can only find redemption as a society if we acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering or emergency response failure. From the TV newsroom to the Capitol Building to the backyard, we must change the way we relate to the black and the poor among us. What's at stake is no less than the future of democracy.

Come Hell or High Water

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#paperback #nonfiction #louisiana #neworleans #sarahmbroom #memoir #africanamerican #blackauthor #diversity #history 

New Jersey

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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#HistoricalFiction set in #NewOrleans in 1898


A Novel of New Orleans

When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born—the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a meager living as an “alley whore.” That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story forces the creation of a red-light district that’s mockingly dubbed “Storyville.” Mary believes there’s no place for a lowly girl like her in the high-class bordellos of Storyville’s Basin Street, where Champagne flows and beautiful girls turn tricks in luxurious bedrooms. But with gumption, twists of fate, even a touch of Voodoo, Mary rises above her hopeless lot to become the notorious Madame Josie Arlington. Filled with fascinating historical details and cameos by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and E. J. Bellocq, Madam is a fantastic romp through The Big Easy and the irresistible story of a woman who rose to power long before the era of equal rights.

Madam

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#paperback #annerice #fiction #lasher #horror #mayfairwitches #witchinghour #neworleans 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Rowan Mayfair, queen of a coven of witches, flees the compelling, irresistible Lasher, the demon father of her child. Reprint.

Lasher

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#paperback #vcandrews #pearlinthemist #landry #series #neworleans #boardingschool 

Fate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness...
Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as d swamp mist. Ruby must carefully avoid a venomous enemy: her stepmother, Daphne, who cringes and sneers at her backwater upbringing. And Ruby's every effort to befriend her twin sister, Gisselle -- especially since Gisselle's crippling accident -- is answered with bitterness and vicious backstabbing.
So idyllic Greenwood -- the exclusive girls' boarding school that her father has chosen for his daughters' senior year -- seems to promise some peace from the conniving Daphne, and maybe even a fresh start with Gisselle. But Ruby's kind isn't welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress, Mrs. Ironwood, plots with her stepmother to make her life miserable. Meanwhile, Gisselle is on a mission to break every school rule, leaving Ruby to suffer the humiliating punishments. But Ruby doesn't lose hope -- until a terrible tragedy leaves her alone in a world that never really wanted her. Ruby will have to summon every last ounce of her Cajun strength to reclaim her home, her future, and the happiness she once knew....

Pearl in the Mist

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California

A Novel of Marie Laveau

The story of Marie Laveau, the character featured on American Horror Story: Coven. New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century: a potent mix of whites, Creoles, free blacks, and African slaves, a city pulsing with crowds, commerce, and an undercurrent of secret power. The source of this power is the voodoo religion, and its queen is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodooienne, worshipped and feared by blacks and whites alike.

Voodoo Dreams

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#hardcover #fiction #bookofthemonth #aapi #historical #neworleans #botm #historicalfiction 

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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#neworleans #ghosts #romance #relationships

New Orleans, 1920s. Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she dies in a tragic accident. In an instant, she leaves behind her one true love and her dream of becoming a doctor -- but somehow, she still remains. Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between -- a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it.

From this remarkable vantage point, Razi narrates the stories of her lost love, Andrew, and the relationship of Amy and Scott, a couple whose house she haunts almost seventy-five years later. The Mercy of Thin Air entwines these two fateful and redemptive love stories that echo across three generations. From ambitious, forward-thinking Razi, who illegally slips birth control guides into library books; to hip Web designer Amy, who begins to fall off the edge of grief; to Eugenia, caught between since the Civil War, the characters in this wondrous novel sing with life. Evoking the power of love, memory, and time, The Mercy of Thin Air culminates in a startling finish that will leave readers breathless.

#NewOrleans #SouthernHistory #GraphicDesign #ArtHistory

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Printmaking in New Orleans contains a wealth of information about the graphic arts in New Orleans. A visually stunning book, spanning cultural strata from highbrow to pop, it is the first publication to examine Louisiana printmaking in depth. Edited and with an introduction by Jessie J. Poesch, Printmaking in New Orleans takes its place among the definitive works of southern cultural history.

The book's fourteen chapters were prepared by participants in a symposium organized by the North American Print Conference. The original symposium-sponsored by the Historic New Orleans Collection, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Louisiana State Museum-assembled an impressive group of experts familiar with engravings, lithographs, photographs, maps, commercial illustrations, and sheet music of New Orleans. The prints discussed at the symposium-and reproduced in this volume-present an essential visual record of the city's development. Cultural studies of New Orleans traditionally focus on the city's jazz heritage and distinctive architecture. Printmaking in New Orleans opens a window on a unique and hitherto under-represented aspect of regional history.

The book traces the development of printmaking from colonial times through the present and features considerable biographical information about the printmakers themselves. The book's subjects include the European publishers who produced books about colonial Louisiana for curious eighteenth-century readers; the eastern-seaboard publishers who produced images of New Orleans in the early nineteenth century; the French and German immigrants who settled in antebellum New Orleans and introduced new lithographic techniques; and the local artists who worked in various print media after the Civil War and throughout the twentieth century.

Jessie J. Poesch, New Orleans, Louisiana, is professor emerita of art history at Newcomb College of Tulane University. She is the author of such books as Early Furniture of Louisiana, The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the Products of Craftsmen, 1560-1860, and Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1885-1904. Her work has appeared in such periodicals as the Art Bulletin and American Art Journal.

Printmaking in New Orleans

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South Carolina

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award

The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.

The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.

The Moviegoer

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Call Your Daughter Home meets Where the Crawdads Sing in a new historical novel from the acclaimed author of The Abolitionist's Daughter. Set in the jasmine-scented humidity of New Orleans during preparations for the first Mardi Gras of the 20th century, The Seamstress of New Orleans weaves the fascinating real-life story of the first all-female krewe, Les Mysterieuses, into a powerful novel of female friendship and empowerment. Against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, Diane McPhail's mesmerizing historical novel tells of two strangers separated by background but bound by an unexpected secret--and of the strength and courage women draw from and inspire in each other. The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared. Desperate to make a living for herself and the child she carries, Alice leaves the bitter cold of Chicago far behind, offering sewing lessons at a New Orleans orphanage. Constance Halstead, a young widow reeling with shock under the threat of her late husband's gambling debts, has thrown herself into charitable work. Meeting Alice at the orphanage, she offers lodging in exchange for Alice's help creating a gown for the Leap Year ball of Les Mysterieuses, the first all female krewe of Mardi Gras. During Leap Years, women have the rare opportunity to take control in their interactions with men, and upend social convention. Piece by piece, the breathtaking gown takes shape, becoming a symbol of strength for both women, reflecting their progress toward greater independence. But Constance carries a burden that makes it impossible to feel truly free. Her husband, Benton, whose death remains a dangerous mystery, was deep in debt to the Black Hand, the vicious gangsters who controled New Orleans' notorious Storyville district. Benton's death has not satisfied them. And as the Mardi Gras festivities reach their fruition, a secret emerges that will cement the bond between Alice and Constance even as it threatens the lives they're building...

Alex Jennings

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Anne Rice

Violin

Alex Jennings

The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Mitch Landrieu

SIGNED - In the Shadow of Statues

Ronlyn Domingue

The Mercy of Thin Air

Anne Rice

Prince Lestat

H. Graham

Down in New Orleans

Margie Fuston

Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things

Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Michael Eric Dyson

Come Hell or High Water

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Dominique Macquet; John DeMers; Sarah Essex (Photographer)

Dominique's Tropical Latitudes

Cari Lynn; Kellie Martin

Madam

Anne Rice

Lasher

V. C. Andrews

Pearl in the Mist

Jewell P. Rhodes

Voodoo Dreams

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Ronlyn Domingue

The Mercy of Thin Air

Jessie J. Poesch (Editor, Introduction by)

Printmaking in New Orleans

Walker Percy

The Moviegoer

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Diane C. McPhail

The Seamstress of New Orleans