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"The fifteen stories in Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay focus on the fraught relationship between parents and their children in the contemporary deep south. In stories set largely in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, power imbalances take center stage, whether that's within the family unit or in the complex world of high school and college football"--

"Join Josette and her friends as they prepare a Louisiana gumbo, exploring the history and cultures behind each ingredient that blend together in the state's staple dish"--

"Settling St. Malo is a story of 19th and early 20th century Filipino communities in Louisiana told through documentary poetry. Through informative, descriptive, and lyrical verse the collection describes the Filipino communities of St. Malo, Barataria Bay, and New Orleans. Excerpts from oral histories, diaries, and letters enter poems to provide a community perspective and counter the bias in newspaper stories and government records that account for much of what is reported about early Filipino settlements"--

A curious Cajun girl imagines herself as a series of animals of the Gulf Coast including a shark, dolphin, crab, and jellyfish, delighting in the habits and habitat of each.

"Set in the turbulent times of the American twentieth century, Dubus describes the years of 1933-1945 from the viewpoint of a girl growing up in southwest Louisiana, a unique region of manners, mores, daily lives, frequent celebrations, and diverse food of both the French and Cajun settlers. The recipes from the author's family and friends are lagniappe to be enjoyed again and again. Dubus describes a childhood filled with relatives ranging from eccentric Aunt Gabe to a no-nonsense Scottish grandmother, all of whom considered education and the character to use it the most important gifts adults could give to children. Sprinkled among the lessons are stories of adventures with neighborhood children, adolescent growing pains, teen escapades, glimpses into her Catholic education, ice cream socials, and picnics, all under the watchful and amused eyes of a close knit community"--

"On November 11, 1918, Yvonne St. Amant received a telegram at her house on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans informing her that her husband of only a few months had been killed in the Argonne. From then on, every year Yvonne lit a candle before the photograph of her husband at precisely 11 a.m. on November 11. Fifteen years later as she was lighting the candle her doorbell rang. It was a young woman who introduced herself as Yvonne's first cousin once removed. In her arms was a tiny baby. A week later the young mother disappeared leaving the baby on a bed in the big house. Pinned to the pillow beside the baby was a note: "I am sorry." The baby's name was Marie Antoinette Renâee Binghamton but Yvonne always called her Bing. Bing was born in 1933 and lived into the twenty-first century. Her life encompassed many wars: WWII, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, as well as her own wars: polio that left her with an almost indiscernible limp, young love in a lit au mariage on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris, the beaches of the Cãote d'Azur, and the summer of love in San Francisco which left her pregnant with a son. And New Orleans where she always returned becoming first "une femme d'un certain age" and then an old lady, the way of all flesh. Through it all Bing had one ambition, "I don't want to grow old before I grow wise." This is her story."--

A group of alt-right terrorists decides that now is the time--and New Orleans is the place--to make an explosive statement that will force the world to acknowledge the superiority of the white supremacist movement. Disgraced former New Orleans homicide detective Starner Gautreaux is now a poorly paid sheriff's deputy relegated to writing his weekly quota of speeding tickets in a sleepy south Louisiana parish. His mundane life is all-too-predictable until several unusual events cause him to suspect something is seriously amiss. While the local coroner classifies the resulting deaths as accidental, Starner's prior experience leads him to believe that not only are they homicides, but also that they signal something far more sinister. Taut action bubbles up from the swamps of Louisiana to the hidden haunts of underworld bosses, from small-town life to urban grit, and from a high-speed highway shootout to a terrifying confrontation in the heart of the French Quarter. White supremacists seek to impose their will on a city swamped with carefree tourists, but Starner Gautreaux is determined not to let that happen.

Mirrors is a collection of interconnected essays that recount the author's being adopted as a young child and then spending his boyhood growing up in rural Louisiana. He writes candidly about his troubled teenage years, experimenting with drugs and alcohol, then dropping out of school and working odd jobs. While most of the collection deals with the author's youth, the collection ultimately builds to the final piece, which describes his unexpected discovery of his biological father after taking a DNA test.

"A series of sixteen essays that discuss and analyze the rural Mardi Gras run celebrations of south Louisiana. In the first half of this book the reader gets an overview of Mardi Gras over the years and across the countryside of southwest Louisiana, where each community enacts the festival in its own unique way. Collectively, these essays present the rules of a seemingly lawless game, an indispensable overview of an enormously intricate complex of traditional behavior. In the second half, Barry shares accounts of his personal experiences as a participant observing and running Mardi Gras"--

"Ready Wright lived in a region of the Gulf South that arguably endured the most chaotic pattern of development found anywhere in America. Multiple national overlords, popular uprisings, war, and fierce nightriders all contributed to a state of chronic instability among a people desperate for peace and a semblance of community unity. Ready's home territory along the Pearl River straddling Louisiana and Mississippi included one bright spot, Mollie Stansbury, whom Ready described as the "most beautiful woman he had ever seen." From New Orleans to Mobile, and on to Pensacola, the challenges of life in the post-Civil War Gulf South, replete with voodoo and other peculiarities distinctive to the region, play out in dramatic fashion as Ready and Mollie confront a world of risk in an effort to find elusive peace. Historical fact and fiction merge in (Rebel Bayou) to create an exciting story of hardship and hope certain to both entertain and educate!"--

"This book presents decoys, old and contemporary, made by Louisiana carvers, as museum quality art rather than hunting tools. It discusses and abundantly illustrates the three basic types of decoys in full size as well as miniature versions. It has an informative chapter on hunting decoys carved by Louisiana's Old Masters that are 100 years old or more and showcases replicas in their style made by a number of Louisiana's best contemporary carvers. Additionally, it contains a chapter for novice collectors on what decoy to buy and how much to pay for it as well as an essay by Louisiana's preeminent decoy authority that offers invaluable advice to collectors of Louisiana decoys of all experience levels. This book offers convincing evidence of the artistic versatility of Louisiana's old and contemporary decoy carvers and emphasizes the existential threats to decoy carving in Louisiana, offering concrete suggestions for saving this unique and culturally important art form from extinction"--

A broke and unemployed musician lands a gig driving a cab through the swamplands of south Louisiana while bobbing and weaving through a nighttime world ruled by drugs, guns, saints, and strippers. In this fuel-injected work of creative nonfiction, Grammy-nominated musician and award-winning writer Dege Legg"š€š"aka Brother Dege"š€š"recounts five years behind the wheel while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands. From the penthouse suites on high to the crack houses on the low, Legg churns out thick-skinned tales about downtrodden derelicts, minor victories for the forgotten, and redemption in the face of it all. CABLOG reverberates with tones of Bukowski, Miller, Chandler, and Kerouac while charting its own new territory of the human spirit.

Last Days of Last Island is the most comprehensive account of the great 1856 Isle Derniere hurricane, its aftermath, and its legacy. Dixon includes a complete listing of victims and survivors, numerous firsthand and primary source accounts, a thorough examination of the poetry and literature inspired by the tragedy, and thirty-two pages of illustrations.

Bienville's Dilemma presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery.

Essays include: "The Expulsion of the Acadians in a Broader Context" by John Mack Faragher (Yale University); "The Acadian Refugees in France" by Jean-Franois Mouhot (Les Courmettes, France); "The Environmental Context: Bayou Teche as the Acadians Found It" by Shane Bernard (McIlhenny Company); "The Initial Acadian Settlement: A New Look at its Location in the Attakapas" by Donald J. Arceneaux (independent scholar); "Finding Nouvelle Acadie: Lost Colonies,Collective Memory, and the New Acadia Project" by Mark Rees (University of Louisiana at Lafayette); "Indians, Settlers, and Slaves on a Colonial Frontier: The Acadians among Other Peoples" by Daniel J. Usner (Vanderbilt University)

"Beauregard & Me and selected poems is a collection of insights through the eyes of the young. Some happy, some sad, all of the poems are flavored with the curiosity, whimsy, and the notes of learned understanding that comes with life's experiences. The poems are written to a target age range of 4-8 years but are good for all ages with an occasional nod to the adult reader"--