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  • Author:
    Harris, C. S.
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    I killed a man the summer I turned thirteen ... Thus begins C. S. Harris's haunting, lyrically beautiful tale of coming of age in Civil War-torn Louisiana. Eleven-year-old Amrie St. Pierre is catching tadpoles with her friend Finn...

  • Author:
    Harris, Charlaine
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    The reader finds Sookie reeling from an explosive attack on the previous month's vampire summit. Many vampires were killed, including several of Sookie's friends. But most pressing for Sookie is the unknown status of her weretiger...

  • Author:
    Fink, Sheri
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    Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina--and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power...

  • Author:
    Connolly, John
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    Have faith. I will find you. Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for...

  • Author:
    Eldredge, Jan
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    A standout middle grade adventure with a sassy, memorable heroine and a charming Southern feel, perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Natalie Lloyd. Twelve-year-old haunt huntress apprentice Evangeline Clement spends her days and...

  • Author:
    Honeycutt, Leo.
    Summary:

    "Branded a crook, profiled three times by 60 Minutes, slammed in East Coast newspapers, Edwards embraced a maverick, gambling, womanizing reputation with comedic relish. But one day the laughter ran out. Was he a crook? Or did the...

  • Author:
    Roy, Réjean, Léger, Diane Carmel
    Summary:

    Deux adolescents, une Américaine et un Acadien, vivent une quête hors de l'ordinaire d'un bout à l'autre du continent. Après s'être connus lors du Congrès mondial acadien de 1994, Sara et Justin entreprennent une...

  • Author:
    Burke, James Lee
    Summary:

    Somewhere off the coast of Louisiana, an old Nazi submarine lies buried in the sands, hidden by thick seaweed and salty waters. Dave Robicheaux is the only person who has ever discovered it, and now Hippo Bimstine, New Orleans' largest...

  • Author:
    Campanella, Richard
    Summary:

    This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina realities, in the context of the deltaic plain on which it lies. The book describes the underlying physical terrain...

  • Author:
    Harris, Charlaine
    Summary:

    Wedding fever has come to Bon Temps, Louisiana! Unfortunately, buxom, blonde, beautiful, and telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie is not the bride-to-be, so she takes the opportunity to travel to New Orleans on family business. As heir...

  • Author:
    Harris, Charlaine
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    Being telepathic, Miss Sookie has no luck dating the living. It's just too awkward for her to become intimate with a man--let alone sleep with him--when she can hear everything he's thinking about her. But then the alluring vampire Bill...

  • Author:
    Harris, Charlaine
    Summary:

    Driving home from work, barmaid and telepath Sookie Stackhouse discovers vampire and area sheriff Eric on the side of the road missing his shirt, his shoes and his memories.

  • Author:
    Harris, Charlaine
    Summary:

    Finally settled with Viking vampire Eric, Sookie finds normalcy just as chaos surrounds her. Sookie's former lover Bill, her boss Sam, and even Eric are struggling with family problems. Then things get really interesting when the...

  • Author:
    Hill, Ernest
    Summary:

    When Tyrone Stokes was sent to prison, he left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his son's innocence,...

  • Author:
    Jackson, Lisa
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    When Olivia Bechet steps into police headquarters, she takes detective Rick Bentz's breath away--until she tells him of her visions of murder. He dismisses her, but her beguiling presence remains burned in his memory.

  • Author:
    Grigorescu, Alexandra
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    An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama. Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a...

  • Author:
    Tademy, Lalita
    Summary:

    Cane River is an epic novel about the strength and determination of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.

  • Author:
    Burke, James Lee
    Summary:

    No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous black civil rights leader in Louisiana. After all, his family were shiftless timber people who brought their ways into the Cajun wetlands--...

  • Author:
    Burke, James Lee
    Summary:

    Dave Robicheaux, New Orleans detective, is puzzled when street hustler Sonny Boy Marsallus slips a Vietnam war diary into his hand. Soon old debts and ancient burial sites create a web of intrigue linking Iberia Parish to more dangerous...

  • Author:
    Johansen, Iris
    Summary:

    Eve Duncan became a forensic sculptor after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie, whose remains were discovered ... yet unrecognizable. Driven by a need to liberate innocence from the shroud of death, she obsesses over recreating...

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