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2) Red River
Author
Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Formats
Description
"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
374 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--andher own past.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Ginny Polk works as a prison cook and also prepares the last meals of those sentenced to execution. When she stumbles upon information about the man executed for killing her father, it leads to a series of dark and painful revelations.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
While staying with her family in Louisiana's Laurel Oaks Plantation, purported to be one of the most haunted places in America, thirteen-year-old Lila is contacted by the ghost of a slave girl unjustly convicted of murder. Story inspired by the author's visit to the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.
10) Dead ever after
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
After learning the devastating reason why vampire hunk Eric Northman has been cooling on their relationship, clairvoyant waitress Sookie Stackhouse becomes embroiled in a shocking murder that sends all of Bon Temps reeling.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., map ; 28 cm.
Description
When a case of chicken measles steals the voice of the blue-headed rooster who used to crow all day long, his friend, a plain brown hen, brings musicians to remind him to sing and save him from becoming "quiet rooster stew."
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
14) The awakening
Author
Description
Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children, gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage.
Author
Series
Description
The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they've managed to survive the scandal. Now there's a trés bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat's nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer.
When everyone else refuses the job of being Vanessa's Maid of Honor, Maggie reluctantly takes up the title and finds herself...
17) Creole belle
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Description
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.
Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 8
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
471 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
19) Bayou magic
Author
Series
Description
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
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