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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life by Rod Dreher PW Review "For author and Dallas Morning News columnist Dreher and his baby sister, Ruthie, their tiny Louisiana parish defined them as they grew up, bringing a sense of belonging to her and a need to escape for him. Family and community meant everything to the... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Zeitoun (Vintage) by Dave Eggers Publisher Comments National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kansas City... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose Publisher Comments 1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Staff Pick Dave Eggers wowed even his most ardent skeptics with What Is the What, the "autobiography" of a Sudanese immigrant that Eggers wrote based on interviews with Valentino Achak Deng. Now Eggers is back with Zeitoun, which examines the disappearance of a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina by Ken Wells Publisher Comments With a long and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, make a fateful decision to ride out Hurricane Katrina on their hand-built fishing boats in a sheltered Civil Warera harbor... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $11.87 Sale - Hardcover
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City by John Miller Synopsis Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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New Orleans, Mon Amour (06 Edition) by Codrescu Publisher Comments For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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House on First Street (09 Edition) by Julia Reed Publisher Comments After fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck. The House on First Street is the chronicle of... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Orleans a Cultural & Literary History by Louise Mckinney Publisher Comments Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards by Tyler Bridges Publisher Comments Louisiana is our most exotic state. It is religious and roguish, a place populated by Cajuns, Creoles, Rednecks, and Bible-thumpers. It is a state that loves good food, good music, and good times. Laissez les bons temps rouler -- let the good times roll -... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Fight for Home: How (Parts Of) New Orleans Came Back by Daniel Wolff Publisher Comments After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became ground zero for the reinvention of the American city, with urban planners, movie stars, anarchists, and politicians all advancing their competing visions of recovery. In this wash of reform... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette Publisher Comments Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N Powell Publisher Comments This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security by Christopher Cooper Publisher Comments "[A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get."--Stephen Flynn, The Washington Post When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were not prepared... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza Publisher Comments Award-winning novelist and cultural critic Tom Piazza is a longtime resident of New Orleans and a celebrator of the music and culture of that city. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, from a temporary outpost in Missouri, he began work immediately after... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Jackson Squared: The Heart of the Quarter by Tom Varisco Publisher Comments "Does anyone else smell beignets?" Tom Varisco documents the French Quarter's Jackson Square with funny, surprising, and sometimes shocking images and essays. Even the statue of Old Hickory weighs in with some colorful art criticism and an ode to the... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Felicianas (Majesty Architecture) by Paul Malone Publisher Comments East Feliciana and West Feliciana Parishes in Louisiana contain some of the finest examples of antebellum architecture in the country. Before the Civil War, wealthy planters of the region competed with each other to build the most spectacular houses and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America (P.S.) by Tom Piazza Publisher Comments Tom Piazzas sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of Refuge and his stunning and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Louisiana's Plantation Homes: The Grace and Grandeur (South/South Coast) by Joseph Arrigo Publisher Comments Before the Civil War, southern planters were among the wealthiest people in America. Many plantation owners lived extravagantly and fashioned their surroundings lavishly. Those grand and graceful homes now remain as tributes to the planters and the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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