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603) Streets of blood
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans after 'Katrina', the partner of Detective Andy Devereaux is found dead, and he is teamed up with Stan Green. During the investigations, an undercover DEA agent is murdered by two dirty police officers. A psychologist, Nina Ferraro, has successive interviews with Andy, Stan and the two detectives. Meanwhile, the FBI also investigate the corruption in the police force leaded by Agent Brown.
604) The Colfax massacre: the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
605) Wages of sin
Author
Series
Daman Rourke novels volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, season five goes deep into the battle between the Vampire Authority and 'vampire fundamentalists': a political power play whose outcome could decide not only the fate of Sookie and her Bon Temps friends, but of all human existence.
607) Ruby Bridges
Author
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book for elementary readers outlines key dates throughout this change maker's life. Full-color photographs and a timeline depict each step in the road to change, from Ruby Bridges's early life through her first steps in an all-white school and her struggles against racism. A glossary, further resources, and an index are included"--
608) The beautiful
Series
Beautiful volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent in the middle of the carnival season, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its fancy soirées and even its danger. She becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des...
611) Death by design
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand turns sleuth when her estranged husband is accused of murdering a New Orleans businessman in Keepsake Crimes, probes the killing of a neighboring shop owner in Photo Finished, and investigates the murder of a groom with a deadly secret in Bound for Murder, in an omnibus edition containing the three Scrapbooking Mysteries. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.
613) A beautiful evil
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the post-apocalyptic city of New 2, Ari Selkirk, who has discovered that she is a descendant of Medusa, is trying to keep at bay the evil growing inside her, but the goddess Athena will stop at nothing to possess Ari's power, provoking a monumental battle between good and evil.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Slow heat in heaven: The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in Heaven, Louisiana, returns home for a family crisis, and finds herself attracted to a dangerous man.
Mirror image: After plastic surgery following a jet crash, television reporter Avery Daniels is mistaken for rich Texas senator Tate Rutledge's wife and finds herself keeping the false identity in order to save her "husband" from an assassination plot.
615) Tennyson
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2009], �2008
Language
English
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
616) Rampart Street
Author
Series
Valentin St. Cyr mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Sarah Morgan herself emerges as one of the most memorable nineteenth-century women in fiction or nonfiction, a young woman of intelligence and fortitude, as well as of high spirits and passion, who questioned the society into which she was born and the meaning of the war for ordinary families like her own and for the divided nation as a whole.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014], 2015
Language
English
Description
"After having foiled the arch-nemesis who tried to kill them, identical twins Edgar and Allan Poe travel to New Orleans, where they will play their famous namesake in a feature film--and try not to get killed again"--
620) The runner
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the after math of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
