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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose Publisher Comments Originally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1 Dead in Attic captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum Publisher Comments Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz Publisher Comments In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 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: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina by Phyllis Montana Leblanc Publisher Comments Called "one of the rawest specimens of classic Nawlins spitfire you'll ever find" by Newsweek, and featured in Spike Lee's HBO documentary When the Levees Broke, Phyllis Montana-Leblanc gives an astounding and poignant account of how she and her husband... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - 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. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms by John Mcquaid Synopsis At 5:02 A.M. on August 29, 2005, Power Went Out in the Superdome. Not long after, wind ripped giant white rubber sheets off the roof and sent huge shards of debris flying toward Uptown. Rivulets of rainwater began finding their way down through the... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Missing New Orleans by J Richard Gruber Publisher Comments A visual and historical love letter for all those who know what it means to miss New... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints by T J Fisher Publisher Comments This collection of dark and enchanted satire, musings, and witticisms exposes a swatch in the psyche deeper than character studies or scenarios of right or wrong, good or bad, politics or peccadilloes. Crafty, uncensored, and contentious, this irreverent... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent by Mario Tama Publisher Comments Mario Tama's moving body of award-winning pictures documents Hurricane Katrina's shocking disaster and the resilience of recovery, hope, and change. It won the 2011 Nautilus Silver Award and was a finalist for Pictures of the Year Best PhotoBook Award... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - 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 $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Bailey Publisher Comments 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 a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The rise of sports in New Orleans;1850-1900 by Dale A Somers Publisher Comments During the nineteenth century, New Orleans won and stoutly defended a reputation for amusement and dissipation that made it distinct among American cities. Exquisite cuisine, theaters, casinos, and private clubs attracted the affluent, while gambling... (read more) Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Travels with Mae: Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood by Eileen M Julien Synopsis With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. Julien's narratives focus on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Voices From the Storm the People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina & Its Aftermath by Lola Vollen Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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