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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darby Lane and Russell Gunn had been inseparable friends from their early years in the Horseshoe, their wonderful Baton Rouge neighborhood of Southern comforts and childhood fancies, all the way through to graduate-school dreams and beyond. Then the unthinkable happens: a tragic accident takes Russ's life, and Darby's world is shattered. Returning to the Horseshoe in utter despair, Darby clings to the only family she's ever known: the three wily and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There are twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek Middle School. They've been together all their lives. And in this small factory town where everyone knows everything about everyone, that's not necessarily a great thing. There are thirteen desks in the seventh-grade classroom. That's because Renni Dean's father got a promotion, and the family moved to Grand Saintlodge, the nearest big town. Renni's desk is empty, but Renni still knows their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish and vats of cold beer, glorious crepe myrtle blossoms and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson--free spirit, track star, and belle of the block--is attacked at night near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of suburban Baton Rouge has a...
7) Queen Sugar
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season...
8) Dollbaby
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ibby Bell's father dies in a tragic accident in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's Victorian house is like no place Ibby has ever been--and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum every once in a while--is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, her black cook, Queenie ... and Queenie's feisty daughter...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zora Broussard has arrived in New Orleans with not much more than a bag of clothes, a beautiful voice, and a pair of enchanted red shoes. Running from a tragic accident caused by her magic, Zora wants nothing more than to blend in, as well as to avoid her overbearing aunt and mean-spirited cousins. Music becomes Zora's only means of escape, yet she wonders if she should give it all up to remove the powers that make her a target, especially as a Black...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler Crandall left Heaven, Louisiana, a brokenhearted girl. Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make Heaven hotter than hell. Still there are her beautiful younger sister, Tricia, with her cruel lies-- Ken, Tricia's handsome husband, who married the wrong sister, Jigger, the pimp and ruffian with plans...
14) The lying woods
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What does the future hold for those born in the years of the Dragon, Tiger, and Goat? In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman...
17) Liberty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Fish has a knack for inventing. His annoying neighbor, Olympia, has a knack for messing things up. But when his latest invention leads Fish to Liberty, a beautiful stray dog who needs a home, he and Olympia work together to rescue her.
18) Bayou baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young single mom, she's trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her wary. She adores her son but has sworn off men. She's dedicated herself to restoring an historic house and building her own business. A quiet life is all she wants. Harrison Jefferys never expected to find himself in small-town Louisiana, but he has a job to do and a family to reconnect with....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (927 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season Three finds Klaus and Elijah estranged from each other, while adjusting to life with their long-lost sister, Freya. Hayley suffers mightily at the hands of Klaus's petty vengeance, while Marcel and Davina rule the city. Cami and Vincent are tangled in a surprising mystery involving the newest resident of New Orleans, the first vampire ever sired by the Mikaelsons.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (548 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The final season begins seven years after the core members of the Mikaelson family, Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah and Kol, each absorb a quarter of the Hollow's dark energy and flee New Orleans to keep their beloved city and young Hope safe. As the Mickaelsons return to New Orleans, bringing the pieces of a century's old evil with them, it becomes clear that the closing chapter of this family saga will be as bloody and emotional as ever.