Laura Lane McNeal

This is a withdrawn library book, but it is still in very good condition. Please see pictures.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A Novel

After her father's unexpected death in 1964, Ibby Bell finds herself living at a New Orleans Garden District estate with her eccentric grandmother and her house staff including a sassy black cook named Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter Dollbaby.

Dollbaby

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John Dufresne

New York

The colorful inhabitants of Shiver-de-Freeze, Louisiana (population 375) gather together to celebrate the wedding of Grisham Loudermilk and Ariane Thevenot.

Deep in the Shade of Paradise

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Steve Smallman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

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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Emeril Lagasse

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Louisiana Recipes for Celebrating with Family and Friends

Emeril takes you through a year's worth of party and festival menus (divided by month) from Super Bowl tailgate to Mardi Gras, from the New Year's Eve to end the millennium to the New Orleans Jazz Fest. In the fun and colorful style that Emeril brings to his Food Network television show Emeril Live and to all his cookbooks, Every Day's a Party is filled with over 125 recipes and Emeril's signature "kick-it-up-a-notch" way of making every occasion an over-the-top celebration.

You've never had this much fun on President's Day.

Every Day's a Party

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana Postcards

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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White Hot

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Michigan

"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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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Three Decades of the Cajun and Creole Music Festival

As Dewey Balfa so eloquently put it, A culture is preserved one generation at a time. He also insisted that tradition is not a product but a living process. Its like a tree. If you water the roots, the branches will grow. Instead of preserving cultural artifacts, he challenged us to preserve the very life of the culture so that it would continue to produce new artifacts. The annual festival that grew out of the first Tribute to Cajun Music in 1974 represents a practical application of that philosophy. Over its three decades, this festival, since 1977 the music component of Lafayettes Festivals Acadiens, has been a proving ground for this evolution. Older masters, such as Dennis McGee, Nathan Abshire, Clifton Chenier, Bois-Sec Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, and Dewey Balfa himself, have passed on, but not without handing off the baton to younger musicians, from Michael Doucet and Zachary Richard to Wayne Toups and Steve Riley to Chris Stafford and Wilson Savoy. These subsequent generations continue to revitalize old songs and create new ones within the traditional context.This book tells the inside story of this experiment in cultural self-preservation, taking the reader onstage, backstage, and into the crowd with schedules, commentary, and photographs from each year, exposing the cultural mission of festival organizers.

"One Generation at a Time" #26

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#paperback #fiction #Louisiana #friends #selfdiscovery #friendship #marriage 

New Jersey

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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Sandra Brown

John Saul

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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Ron Hall

Denver Moore

Lynn Vincent

Washington

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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A collection of images which provide a unique view of life and commerce in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Bossier Parish

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#paperback #eloquent #tennessee #RockyMountains #Louisiana #fathersanddaughters #familysecrets #secrets #suicide this book would be rated excellent except for the following: name on endpaper and a white spot on the cover where a sticker was removed.  See photos.

Minnesota

A debut novel from an exciting new voice in women's fiction... Frannie Aldren Broussard has finally earned a welcome freedom. The children are grown and out of the house, and Frannie eagerly looks forward to pursuing her love of painting without family duties to distract her. Until she receives news that her deeply private father has committed suicide. She heads to Denver to arrange his burial-and to begin an unexpected journey of revelation and healing. Tracking the path of her father's life takes her from his birthplace deep in the foothills of Tennessee to her beloved Louisiana swamplands and finally to the high desert country of the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she uncovers some startling truths about the man she never really knew, and discovers the rich potential that has always existed in her own life...

Back Before Dark

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Robert Penn Warren

Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success. Generally considered the finest novel ever written on American politics,All the King's Men is a literary classic.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING

SEAN PENN

JUDE LAW

KATE WINSLET

JAMES GANDOLFINI

MARK RUFFALO

PATRICIA CLARKSON

and

ANTHONY HOPKINS


All the King's Men

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James Lee Burke

Pennsylvania

While in a New Orleans recovery unit, detective Dave Robicheaux meets a Creole girl whose subsequent disappearance prompts his search for the girl's sister against a backdrop of a bayou-threatening oil well rupture in the Gulf of Mexico.

Creole Belle

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Kathleen Y'Barbo

Previously owned.  Edge, cover and corner wear.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Dreams Come True in the Bayous

Dreams come true in Louisiana bayou. Three women seek a place to come home to in the bayous of Lousiana.

Cajun Hearts

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John Francois

Carrier-of-Bones

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The Glass Rainbow

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Mandy Mikulencak

Set in 1950s Louisiana, Mandy Mikulencak's beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help and Dead Man Walking with the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past. Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana's Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them--sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff--left as soon as they could. Yet Ginny Polk chose to come back to work as a prison cook. She knows the harsh reality of life within those walls--the cries of men being beaten, the lines of shuffling inmates chained together. Yet she has never seen them as monsters, not even those sentenced to execution. That's why Ginny has taken on a special responsibility: preparing their last meals. Pot roast or red beans and rice, coconut cake or pork neck stew . . . whatever the men ask for Ginny prepares, even meeting with their heartbroken relatives to get each recipe just right. The prison board frowns upon the ritual, as does Roscoe Simms, Greenmount's Warden. Her daddy's best friend before he was murdered, Roscoe has always watched out for Ginny, and their friendship has evolved into something deep and unexpected. But when Ginny stumbles upon information about the man executed for killing her father, it leads to a series of dark and painful revelations. Truth, justice, mercy--none of these are as simple as Ginny once believed. And the most shocking crimes may not be the ones committed out of anger or greed, but the sacrifices we make for love. "A haunting study of race relations, compassion, and mystery. A must read." --Library Journal (Starred Review)

The Last Suppers

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#hardcover #fiction #darkfantasy #louisiana #neworleans

California

River Road by Suzanne Johnson is the fun, fast-paced second book in the Sentinels of New Orleans, a series of urban fantasy novels filled with wizards, mermen and pirates. These novels are perfect for readers of paranormal fiction and "fans of Charlaine Harris and Cat Adams" (Booklist)andRT Bookreviews agrees that "for readers missing Sookie Stackhouse, this series may be right up your alley."

Hurricane Katrina is long gone, but the preternatural storm rages on in New Orleans. New species from the Beyond moved into Louisiana after the hurricane destroyed the borders between worlds, and it falls to wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco and her partner, Alex Warin, to keep the preternaturals peaceful and the humans unaware. But a war is brewing between two clans of Cajun merpeople in Plaquemines Parish, and down in the swamp, DJ learns, there's more stirring than angry mermen and the threatof a were-gator.

Wizards are dying, and something--or someone--from the Beyond is poisoning the waters of the mighty Mississippi, threatening the humans who live and work along the river. DJ and Alex must figure out what unearthly source is contaminating the water and who--or what--is killing the wizards. Is it a malcontented merman, the naughty nymph, or some other critter altogether? After all, DJ's undead suitor, the pirate Jean Lafitte, knows his way around a body or two.

It's anything but smooth sailing on the bayou as the Sentinels of New Orleans series continues.

River Road

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Slightly creased cover #paperback #nonfiction #louisiana #sarahmbroom #memoir #neworleans #unopened #africanamerican 

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.

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Laura Lane McNeal

Dollbaby

John Dufresne

Deep in the Shade of Paradise

Steve Smallman

Santa Is Coming to Louisiana

Emeril Lagasse

Every Day's a Party

Gannett Louisiana Newspaper

Louisiana Postcards

Rebecca Wells

Ya-Yas in Bloom

Sandra Brown

White Hot

Rita Leganski

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

Barry Jean Ancelet; Philip Gould

"One Generation at a Time" #26

Julie Pennell

The Young Wives Club

Sandra Brown

White Hot

John Saul

The Right Hand of Evil

Ron Hall; Denver Moore; Lynn Vincent

Same Kind of Different as Me

Clifton D. Cardin

Bossier Parish

Sharon Arms Doucet

Back Before Dark

Robert Penn Warren

All the King's Men

James Lee Burke

Creole Belle

Rebecca Wells

Ya-Yas in Bloom

Kathleen Y'Barbo

Cajun Hearts

John Francois

Carrier-of-Bones

James Lee Burke

The Glass Rainbow

Mandy Mikulencak

The Last Suppers

Suzanne Johnson

River Road

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House