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c1996 | Simon & Schuster Editions | 140 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main has 2 Fiction Chopin, K |
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p2005 | Unabridged. | Tantor Media | 4 sound discs (ca. 5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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First published in 1899, this compelling novel shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Edna Pontellier and her struggle to negotiate love and motherhood. She is a woman trapped in a stifling marriage who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened...
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2010 | 1st ed. | Minotaur Books | 378 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main has 2 Mystery Barr, N Southside Mystery Barr, N |
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[2010] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2010 | Large print ed. | Thorndike Press | 579 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to investigate what is has to do with Geneva's creepy tenant and a fugitive mother accused of having killed her family.
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[1987], ©1980 | [1st Evergreen ed]. | Grove Press | 405 pages ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
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2014. | 35th anniversary edition. | Louisiana State University Press | vii, 348 pages ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
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Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their...
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Mystery Childs, L
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2019. | First edition. | Berkley Prime Crime | 308 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"It's Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and the giant puppets from the Beastmaster Puppet Theatre are parading through the French Quarter. Some are very spooky and veiled, others are tall and gangly, like strange aliens. As the parade proceeds, Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava, follow behind, down Royal Street and past the food booths. Suddenly, they hear a terrible crash from Devon Dowling's antiques shop. They rush inside to find Devon collapsed...
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1996 | Hyperion | 297 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Best-selling author James Lee Burke returns to delight audiobook listeners who crave fast-paced crime fiction with Cadillac Jukebox. This thunderous and introspective audiobook-the ninth book of the award-winning series-pits the earthy and robust Dave Robicheaux against forces of law and power far beyond his control. When a racially-motivated murder nearly three decades old churns back to the surface, Robicheaux is confronted by mob bosses, corrupt...
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2011 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 273 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Gran, S |
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This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world's greatest PI-at least, that's what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire's unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette's student the brilliant Constance Darling-until...
7) The chef
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2019. | First edition. | Little Brown & Company | 383 pages ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
8) 13 1/2
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c2009 | Vanguard Press | 311 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
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[2017] | Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp | 263 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Alers, R Main Fiction Alers, R |
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Chef Tonya Martin takes an apprentice role in a New Orleans restaurant and is attracted to chef Gage Toussaint. She wonders if it's too late to leap into love again.
Downsized from her job as a professional chef for a Wall Street bank, Tonya Martin takes a spontaneous trip to New Orleans. She considers an opportunity to open a restaurant, and takes an apprentice role at famed restaurant Chez Toussaints. Gage Toussaint's mix of Creole, Cajun, and...
10) Midnight Bayou
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c2001 | Putnam's | 352 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Fiction Roberts, N Southside Fiction Roberts, N |
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2001 | Thorndike Press | 496 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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11) The stalking
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[2019] | Mira Books | 297 pages ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2019. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"With the execution of a serial killer known as the Artiste, Cheyenne Donegal thinks a grim part of her past is finally put to rest. Her cousin had been the twisted killer's final victim, and then-teenage Cheyenne was integral in bringing him to justice. That tragedy drove her to become an FBI agent. And now she's back in Louisiana because someone is murdering young women in the same manner as the Artiste. Krewe of Hunters agent Andre Broussard has...
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2007 | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. | Simon & Schuster | 373 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main has 2 Mystery Burke, J |
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2007 | Simon & Schuster | 14 sound discs (16.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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"In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers when he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every...
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c2011 | Scholastic | 95 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens - J has 2 Fiction Tarshis, L Main Childrens - J has 2 Fiction Tarshis, L Southside Childrens - J Fiction Tarshis, L |
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Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
14) A small hotel
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c2011 | Grove Press | 241 p. ; 19 cm. | English | On Shelf
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A tale set in reverse chronicles the failing marriage of New Orleans residents Michael and Kelly Hayes, who, on the day their divorce becomes final, revisit their shared history to evaluate the insecurities and inabilities that have driven them apart.
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c2002 | Simon & Schuster | 349 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Burke, J Southside Mystery Burke, J |
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Dave Robicheaux, the Louisiana cop who's easily one of the most complex and compelling protagonists in mystery fiction, confronts his own demons as well as a brutal adversary who might be the devil himself in this dark thriller. Robicheaux doesn't believe Tee Bobby Hulin, a drug addicted musical genius, has murdered a prostitute and a teenager. Burke looks to the lower depths to find his villain, and the creature that emerges, as if from some primordial...
16) The moviegoer
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1998 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | 241 p. ; 21 cm. | English |
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A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies, affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a “search” for something more important, some spiritual truth to anchor him. Binx's life floats casually...
17) Absolute fear
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2007 | Kensington Pub | 404 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Fiction Jackson, L Main Fiction Jackson, L |
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p2007 | Brilliance Audio | 13 sound discs (ca. 15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2017. | First edition. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 370 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act"--
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c2007 | Mira Books | 443 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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In 2005, hurricane rescue workers made a grisly discovery at one of the massive refrigerator "graveyards"-six female hands. Captain Patti O'Shay, a by-the-books cop, is assigned to the case. But with the evidence lost to time and the elements, the heinous incident goes unsolved. The perpetrator, known only as "The Handyman," remains at large. Two years later Patti is still haunted by her own personal tragedy-her husband and fellow police captain was...
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p1993 | Recorded Books | 11 sound discs (12 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken Mystery Burke, J |
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Dave Robicheaux felt the bone-grinding pain rip through his body as the .45 did its damage. Through the agonizing haze that enveloped him, he heard an almost inhuman laugh-the hideous, victorious cackling of Jimmie Lee Boggs-a sound he would never forget. It had started out as an ordinary prisoner transfer, then turned into a blood bath when the convicted murderer got hold of a gun. Robicheaux could still hear that contemptible laughter, replacing...
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