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1) Fat Tuesday
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English
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In this "intriguing" thriller (People), a New Orleans police officer kidnaps an attorney's wife in an act of revenge — but he's not expecting the electric attraction between them.Burke Basile is a cop with nothing left to lose. Haunted by his partner's death, the end of his marriage, and the destruction of his career, he targets his nemesis, a flamboyant attorney who helps killers evade justice. Burke's shocking revenge centers...
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"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." —Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked...
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked...
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New York Times best-selling author Douglas Brinkley is widely regarded as one of America's leading historians. In The Great Deluge, Brinkley delivers an eye-opening account of the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
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Mayfair witches volume 1
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series!
“Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World
Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of...
“Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World
Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of...
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Mayfair witches volume 2
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series!
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,”...
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,”...
10) Deadly night
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Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the rumors the New Orleans plantation his family has inherited is haunted. After he finds a human bone on the grounds, Aidan is joined by the tarot card reader Kendall Montgomery to uncover the truth.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003
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1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
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xiii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Presents the true story of Salome Muller, a German immigrant girl who was lost to her family in the early 1800s and sold into slavery, her French master who claimed she was part African, and the desperate struggle for her freedom that led to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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English
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
A New York Times Notable Book
The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post–Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison...
A New York Times Notable Book
The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post–Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Here the author, a physician and reporter, 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. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism,...
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Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges and her mother went to William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960, they arrived to find an angry crowd of white people shouting racist insults. For her safety, Ruby had to be escorted to school every day by U.S. Marshals. But despite the hateful attitudes of others, Ruby didn't miss a single day of school that year. Discover the incredible bravery of one young Black girl who faced terrible persecution to get...
16) Malice
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English
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When New Orleans detective Rick Bentz begins seeing his first wife Jennifer, who died twelve years earlier, everywhere, he is forced to relive his darkest nightmare as he pieces together her last days, which pits him against a killer who intends to make him suffer for his sins.
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
18) Cadillac jukebox
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 9
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English
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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...
19) A thin dark line
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Broussard and Fourcade novels volume 1
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English
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New York Times best-seller Tami Hoag leads listeners through a dark, twisted nightmare in this tightly woven tale of suspense and terror. Exploring the "thin dark line" between attraction and obsession and between law and justice, she affords listeners a frightening insight into the dark rage that sometimes sends people over the edge. Because of a legal technicality, a sadistic murderer is free to walk. Two concerned police officers are committed...
20) Hot blooded
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English
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A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy hotel room in New Orleans' French Quarter. Miles away, on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain, late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening phone call. Who would think to link the two? Detective Rick Bentz is charged with the task of connecting the events.
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