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Ohio

The dearly held belief that no meal can be too big or last too long has been cherished for many generations in New Orleans, and nowhere more faithfully than in the city's oldest restaurants. From neighbourhood joints serving up the finest, freshest crawfish, oyster po' boys and shrimp remoulade to elegant establishments in the French Quarter, the phrase "Come for lunch, stay for dinner, go home in a wheelbarrow" is beloved by all. New Orleans' leisurely, unaffected style also endures in its venerable shops, including a turn-of-the-century parfumerie and luxurious antique stores.

A Guide to the Historic Shops and Restaurants of New Orleans

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#neworleansscrapbookingmystery #mystery #neworleans #jazz #murder #bigeasy #scrapbooking #bestselling-author   Cleverly written book in a new series that intertwines lively characters with an equally lively setting of The Big Easy with scrapbooking tips and recipes thrown in.

Maryland

It's Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and the giant puppets from the Beastmaster Puppet Theatre are parading through the French Quarter. Some are very spooky and veiled, others are tall and gangly, like strange aliens.

As the parade proceeds, Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava, follow behind, down Royal Street and past the food booths. Suddenly, they hear a terrible crash from Devon Dowling's antiques shop. They rush inside to find Devon collapsed with blood streaming down the side of his face. Has he been shot? Stabbed? 911 is hastily called, and the police and EMTs show up. After the police examine Devon's body, they tell Carmela and Ava that their friend was murdered with an icepick. They're shocked beyond belief-and now Mimi, Devon's little pug, is left homeless.

Carmela and Ava are determined to catch the murderer, but the list of suspects is long. How long do they have before they find themselves on the killer's list?

Mumbo Gumbo Murder

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Texas

Master the Mississippi

Splash into River Royals: Master the Mississippi with Eliza Jane and Henry as they take a wild ride down the Mississippi River in hopes of being crowned King and Queen of the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Filled with local culture, geography and history of the Mississippi River Basin, this imaginative journey takes children through ten states where they meet colorful new friends who also want crowns. The travelers soon discover that in these great states, you don't need a crown to shine. The strength of the United States lies in the hearts and dreams of its people. Citizens from Lake Itasca to shining sea work together to make America shine. With the charm of Eloise and the audacity of Huckleberry Finn, River Royals: Master the Mississippi enchants and educates children ages five to eight as it introduces the vibrant communities along America's largest river system. Join this happy caravan as they explore the Mighty Mississippi and discover the wonders of America at every bend in the river.

River Royals - Read the description please

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Brian Kilmeade

Don Yaeger

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison’s generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson. A native of Tennessee who had witnessed the horrors of the Revolutionary War and Indian attacks, he was glad America had finally decided to confront repeated British aggression. But he feared that President Madison’s men were overlooking the most important target of all: New Orleans. If the British conquered New Orleans, they would control the mouth of the Mississippi River, cutting Americans off from that essential trade route and threatening the previous decade’s Louisiana Purchase. The new nation’s dreams of western expansion would be crushed before they really got off the ground. So Jackson had to convince President Madison and his War Department to take him seriously, even though he wasn’t one of the Virginians and New Englanders who dominated the government. He had to assemble a coalition of frontier militiamen, French-speaking Louisianans,Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, freed slaves, and even some pirates. And he had to defeat the most powerful military force in the world—in the confusing terrain of the Louisiana bayous. In short, Jackson needed a miracle. The local Ursuline nuns set to work praying for his outnumbered troops. And so the Americans, driven by patriotism and protected by prayer, began the battle that would shape our young nation’s destiny. As they did in their two previous bestsellers, Kilmeade and Yaeger make history come alive with a riveting true story that will keep you turning the pages. You’ll finish with a new understanding of one of our greatest generals and a renewed appreciation for the brave men who fought so that America could one day stretch “from sea to shining sea.”

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

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Michigan

A Novel

New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose.

King Zeno

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Barbara Hall

Because Nora's life has become so wretched, she jumps at the chance to visit her old friend Simone in New Orleans, but once there she learns that Simone needs her and their other friend Poppy for support during a rape trial.

A Summons to New Orleans

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New York

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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Louisiana

Using 3 narrators-a young girl, her stepmother, and an elderly African American man-Brown reveals the secrets of a family's multiracial past.

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery MB1

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Eric Nguyen

Laura Childs

Terrie Farley Moran

Book is in excellent condition. There is sticker residue on the bottom right corner of the cover and “6-23” written in ink on the first page (blank). Please see pictures. 

A New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery

An exploding Mardi Gras float has got to be the strangest murder weapon scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand has ever encountered in this latest Scrapbooking Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is excited to be attending the Pluvius Parade along with her best friend Ava. Carmela's ex-husband Shamus rides by the duo on his float at the head of the parade, when suddenly the revelry turns to disaster. Shamus' float crashes and explodes, and although Shamus escapes unhurt, a member of his krewe is killed.

Glitter Bomb

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John Bailey

California

The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans

It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes the face of a German girl who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the olive-skinned woman is a slave, with no memory of a white past. And yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. Had a defenseless European orphan been illegally enslaved, or was she an imposter? So begins one of the most celebrated and sensational trials of nineteenth-century America. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey uses Miller's dramatic trial to describe the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, a slave for life? The trial pits a humble community of German immigrants against a hardened capitalist and one of the most flamboyant lawyers of his time. Bailey follows the case's incredible twists and turns all the way to the Supreme Court and comes to a shocking conclusion in this investigative history that reads like a suspense novel.

The Lost German Slave Girl

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Oklahoma

In Arise, the mesmerizing, romantic sequel to YA paranormal novel Hereafter, Tara Hudson takes the story of Amanda, a ghost girl adrift between the worlds of the living and the dead to New Orleans. Amanda has found love with Joshua, a human boy. But as powerful as their love is, it may not be strong enough to break the barrier between life and death.

 

Evil spirits have been threatening Amanda. She is terrified they will hurt those she cares about, especially Joshua. When Gabrielle, a beautiful girl Amanda meets at the Conjure Café in New Orleans, offers Amanda the possibility of a different life, Amanda agrees to meet her in at the St. Louis Number One Cemetery at midnight. There, Amanda finds a Voodoo circle. Once she steps inside, everything will change.

Arise

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Florida

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Alabama

Luke Millward goes to New Orleans to look for his estranged father, who is missing after Hurricane Katrina, and comes to terms with his painful past, a time in which his father descended into alcoholism after the death of his mother.

Recovering Charles

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Troy Andrews

Bill Taylor

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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A gorgeous story of perseverance, family, and the intricacies of the self 🖤. This copy is largely unread but the first few pages have a few underlines and comments before I decided it wasn’t for me! It has light scratches due to general handling. Comes with a cute bookmark!

Minnesota

Things We Lost to the Water - see description 

South Carolina

#eleningage #theladiesofmanagua #nicaragua #family #1950s #history #government #neworleans #relationships Ex library book.  Stamps and stickers inside and on cover/spine.  Stain on last page (see picture).  For similar 🔖Bookmark Journey 📚 titles, click #bookmarkjourneyhistoricalfiction

Illinois

When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past-and a secret of her own. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother Ninexin, once a storied revolutionary, now a tireless government employee. Between Maria and Ninexin lies a chasm created by the death of Maria's father, who was killed during the revolution when Maria was an infant, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother Isabela as Ninexin worked to build the new Nicaragua. As Ninexin tries to reach her daughter, and Maria wrestles with her expectations for her romance with an older man, Isabela, the mourning widow, is lost in memories of attending boarding school in 1950's New Orleans, where she loved and lost almost sixty years ago. When the three women come together to bid farewell to the man who anchored their family, they are forced to confront their complicated, passionate relationships with each other and with their country-and to reveal the secrets that each of them have worked to conceal.
Lushly evocative of Nicaragua, its tumultuous history, and vibrant present, Eleni N. Gage'sThe Ladies of Managua brings you into the lives of three strong and magnetic women, as they uncover the ramifications of the choices they made in their pasts and begin to understand the ways in which love can shape their futures.

The Ladies of Managua

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Fifteen years after breaking Sonny's heart and a decade after seeking fame and fortune as an actress in California, Juliet Beauvais returns to New Orleans and once again wreaks havoc in the life of struggling artist Sonny LaMott.

My Juliet

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Michelle Zink

No dust jacket, library discard stamps and sharpie

Massachusetts

Seventeen-year-old Claire Kincaid, a descendant of Marie Leveau, is forced to embrace her voodoo heritage when mysterious strangers threaten to use an age-old curse to destroy her family and the boy she loves.

This Wicked Game

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Laura Lane McNeal

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

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Cameron Crane; Little Bookroom Editors (Editor); New York Review Books Staff

A Guide to the Historic Shops and Restaurants of New Orleans

Laura Childs; Terrie Farley Moran

Mumbo Gumbo Murder

Sarah Wynne; Katie Clark

River Royals - Read the description please

Brian Kilmeade; Don Yaeger

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

Nathaniel Rich

King Zeno

Barbara Hall

A Summons to New Orleans

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

John G. Brown

Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery MB1

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Laura Childs; Terrie Farley Moran

Glitter Bomb

John Bailey

The Lost German Slave Girl

Tara Hudson

Arise

Victoria Schwab; V. E. Schwab, Owlcrate

Bridge of Souls Character Cards - OWLCRATE

Jason F. Wright

Recovering Charles

Troy Andrews; Bill Taylor

The 5 o'Clock Band

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water - see description

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Eleni N. Gage

The Ladies of Managua

John Ed Bradley

My Juliet

Michelle Zink

This Wicked Game

Eric Nguyen

Things We Lost to the Water

Laura Lane McNeal

Dollbaby

Laura Lane McNeal

Dollbaby