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Maryland

Dead in the Family (First Edition)

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Ex-library book in like new condition with the exception of stickers on cover and spine, as well as the library stamp on the first page

A Dave Robicheaux Novel

After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle. As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life—alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed. A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke’s fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers—mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.

A Private Cathedral

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Louisiana

Iowa

Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.

Cane River

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Rebecca Wells

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

A Novel

For readers everywhere who are ga-ga for the Ya-Yas and clamoring for more and for those who are lucky enough to be discovering the Ya-Yas for the first time, comes a new book about the incomparable Sisterhood, bursting with life and funnier than ever....

An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.

When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Told in alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, YA-YAS IN BLOOM show us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through. Necies wise credo, "Just think pretty pink and blue thoughts," helps too...

But in the Ya-Yas' inimitable way, these four remarkable women also teach their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen. And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime...and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.

After two bestsellers and a blockbuster movie, the Ya-Yas have become part of American culture -- icons for the power of women's friendship. YA-YAS IN BLOOM continues the saga, giving us more Ya-Ya lore, spun out in the rich patois of the Louisiana bayou country and brim full of the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy.

Ya-Yas in Bloom

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Dead in the Family

Troy Andrews

Bill Taylor

New York

In this companion to the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning Trombone Shorty, join a scrappy young musician named Shorty on a tour of his beloved New Orleans. After letting his band down by missing rehearsal, Shorty has some serious questions about what it means to be a leader. He hits the streets of New Orleans to find some answers and soak up inspiration. Along the way he'll meet street musicians, a favorite restaurant owner, and the famous Mardi Gras Indians. Each has some NOLA-bred wisdom to share with Shorty about being an artist, a leader, and a friend. In The 5 O'Clock Band, Troy Andrews has crafted another unforgettable love letter to New Orleans illustrated by the incomparable Bryan Collier.

The 5 o'Clock Band

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The ninth installment in the series that inspired the HBO original True Blood offers another exciting undead adventure, which opens with a vampire fashion show, showing just one of the fruits of the author's unique writing style. Original.

Dead and Gone

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Spice up Your Life with Incredible Gulf Coast Cooking

Author Peggy Touchtone Sholly's taste-tested recipes have received rave reviews around the US. By special request she shares her private collection of original and favorite recipes created during her life as a wife, cook, mother, and business woman experiencing the fabulous foods on the flavor trail from New Orleans to West Texas. The recipes and entertainment ideas in Down Home Delicious can rev up the romance in your life and get you excited about cooking, ready to stir, roast and fry like never before! Beginner to expert can: Get your Sizzle going and take your cooking to a higher level. Wake up fast-food-dulled taste buds and have everyone, even picky eaters, begging for more. Be a culinary stand out admired by all. Get new twists to old recipes with more variety and spice for your menu choices. Enjoy the creative rush of personally cooking delicious new dishes bursting with flavor. Book jacket.

Down Home Delicious

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Laura Lane McNeal

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Ohio

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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From This Day Her Mother's Keeper

From This Day

B.J. Clark despised him. As the manager of the Lakeside Inn, she could only feel contempt for Taylor Reynolds, the man who had bought the hotel. His reputation for transforming lovely hotels into modern resorts preceded him. But when Taylor arrives, B.J.'s loyalties become divided between the hotel and staff and the hot, torrid kisses that she and Taylor share.

Her Mother's Keeper

Gwen may have left Louisiana a starry-eyed innocent, but now she's returned successful and accomplished.

And with enough sense to deal with her mother's maddening boarder, Luke Powers. But once Gwen meets Luke--a man reputed to be an expert in both words and women--her composure disappears. Now she has stars in her eyes but isn't so innocent...



Where the Heart Is -see description 

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John Dufresne

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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Josh Russell

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Set in New Orleans during the 1840s, a novel of erotic adventure and human corruption follows an apprentice of Louis Daguerre from the studio of his mentor, where he has just participated in inventing photography, to America, where he uses the new art to photograph the victims of Yellow Fever.

Yellow Jack

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James Lee Burke

The Glass Rainbow

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Louisiana Postcards

Jennifer Blake

Georgia

Wade by Jennifer Blake released on Aug 23, 2002 is available now for purchase.

Wade

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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.

Ron Hall

Denver Moore

Lynn Vincent

Tennessee

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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Alaska

Dante, the warrior son of a healer, was cursed by a high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death. Someone shares one of his past lives - back then, she was his victim...today she is his saviour. Her name is Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa Craving

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White Hot

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Anne RICE

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Lestat Is Back, Saviour And Demon, Presiding Over A Gothic Story Of Family Greed And Hatred Through Generations, A Terrifying Drama Of Blood Lust And Betrayal, Possession And Matricide. Blackwood Farm With Its Grand Southern Mansion, Set Among Dark Cypress Swamps In Louisiana, Harbours Terrible Blood-Stained Secrets And Family Ghosts. Heir To Them All Is Quinn Blackwood, Young, Rash And Beautiful, Himself A 'Bloodhunter' Whom Lestat Takes Under His Wing. But Quinn Is In Thrall Not Only To The Past And His Own Appetites But, Even More Dangerously, To A Companion Spirit, A 'Goblin' Succubus Who Could Destroy Him And Others. Only The Unearthly Power Of Lestat Combined With The Earthly Powers Of The Mayfair Clan Could Hope To Save Quinn From Himself And His Ghosts, Or To Rescue The Doomed Girl Quinn Loves From Her Own Mortality- Shocking, Savage And Richly Erotic, This Novel With The Deceptively Gentle Title Bring Us Anne Rice At Her Most Powerfully Disturbing. Here Are Vampires And Witches, Men And Women, Demons And A Doppelg-Nger, Caught Up In A Maelstrom Of Death And Destruction, Blood And Fire, Cruelty And Fate.

Blackwood Farm (exp)

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Lois Ruby

Lila When thirteen-year-old Lila and her family visit Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, her parents and brother scoff at the claim that the house is haunted. Lila isn't so ready to dismiss the idea. Ever since her friend Roberto died, she's been hearing his voice in the middle of the night. But there are no such things as ghosts, are there? Maybe here, at Laurel Oaks, Lila will find out for sure.... Daphne Daphne was alive once, long ago. She was a house slave to Judge Nethercott at Laurel Oaks Plantation. She met her end in the wintry waters of the Mississippi when she was accused of poisoning her master's wife and two little girls. For two centuries, Daphne has been waiting--waiting for the one who can discover the truth and set her spirit free. Could Lila be the one?

The Secret of Laurel Oaks

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"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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Mindy Starns Clark

What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?

New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs―only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she knew to be true about herself and her family.

Framed for murder, Chloe and a handsome Cajun stranger must search for a priceless treasure, one whose roots weave through the very history of Louisiana itself. But can Chloe depend on the mysterious man leading her on this cat-and-mouse chase into the heart of Cajun country? Or by trusting him, has she gone from the frying pan into the fire?

Following up on her bestselling Gothic thriller, Whispers of the Bayou, and Amish romantic suspense, Shadows of Lancaster County, Mindy Starns Clark offers another exciting standalone novel, one full of Cajun mystery, hidden dangers, and the glow of God's unending grace.



What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?

New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs--only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she knew to be true about herself and her family.

Framed for murder, Chloe and a handsome Cajun stranger must search for a priceless treasure, one whose roots weave through the very history of Louisiana itself. But can Chloe depend on the mysterious man leading her on this cat-and-mouse chase into the heart of Cajun country? Or by trusting him, has she gone from the frying pan into the fire?

Following up on her bestselling Gothic thriller, Whispers of the Bayou, and Amish romantic suspense, Shadows of Lancaster County, Mindy Starns Clark offers another exciting standalone novel, one full of Cajun mystery, hidden dangers, and the glow of God's unending grace.

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Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family (First Edition)

James Lee Burke

A Private Cathedral

James Lee Burke

A Private Cathedral

Lalita Tademy

Cane River

Rebecca Wells

Ya-Yas in Bloom

Charlaine Harris

Dead in the Family

Troy Andrews; Bill Taylor

The 5 o'Clock Band

Charlaine Harris

Dead and Gone

Peggy Touchtone Sholly; Randy Evans (Foreword by); Kimberly Fay (Contribution by); Robert Sholly (Contribution by)

Down Home Delicious

Laura Lane McNeal

Dollbaby

Nora Roberts

Where the Heart Is -see description

John Dufresne

Deep in the Shade of Paradise

Josh Russell

Yellow Jack

James Lee Burke

The Glass Rainbow

Gannett Louisiana Newspaper

Louisiana Postcards

Jennifer Blake

Wade

Rebecca Wells

Ya-Yas in Bloom

Ron Hall; Denver Moore; Lynn Vincent

Same Kind of Different as Me

Sunny

Mona Lisa Craving

Sandra Brown

White Hot

Anne Rice

Blackwood Farm (exp)

Lois Ruby

The Secret of Laurel Oaks

Rita Leganski

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

Mindy Starns Clark

Under the Cajun Moon