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St. Joseph Altars
In St. Joseph Altars, Kerri McCaffety combines historical knowledge with luscious photographs of this Sicilian tradition. She took 140 color photographs in thirty different homes to reveal the beauty and majesty of the St. Joseph altars.
St. Joseph Altars is also an heirloom cookbook; it contains twenty recipes for several of the most popular St. Joseph altar dishes. Contributed by both Sicilian grandmothers and New Orleans chefs, these traditional recipes include ciabatta (bread), cioppino (fish stew), and various biscotti (cookies).
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Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children... and Other Streets of New Orleans!
Full of history, facts, names, dates and events but it was thoroughly engaging. Written by John Chase who was a special lecturer on history at Tulane Univeristy, Frenchmen, Desire, Goodchildren is a very detailed account of how so many of the streets and areas were named.
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba
In Intimate Enemies, Christina Vella embroiders the compelling story of the Almonester-Pontalba alliance against a richly woven background of the events and cultures of two centuries and two vivid societies. She provides a window into the yellow fever epidemics that raged in New Orleans; the rebuilding of Paris, the Paris Commune uprising, and the Second Empire of Napoleon III; European ideas of power, class, money, marriage, and love during the baroness' lifetime and their inflection in the New World setting of New Orleans; medical treatments, legal procedures, imperial court life, banking practices, and much more.
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New Orleans Noir
The excellent 12th entry in Akashic's city-specific noir series illustrates the diversity of the chosen locale with 18 previously unpublished short stories from authors both well known (Laura Lippman, Barbara Hambly) and emerging (Kalamu Ya Salaam, Jeri Cain Rossi). Appropriately, Smith divides the book into pre- and post-Katrina sections, and many of the more powerful tales describe the disaster's hellish aftermath. Standouts in the first section, "Before the Levees Broke," include Laura Lippman's short, twisted tale of victims and victimizers, "Pony Girl," and Tim McLoughlin's "Scared Rabbit," a tight, punchy account of a police shooting. Among the contributions to the post-Katrina "Life in Atlantis" section, Thomas Adcock's gritty crime tale, "Lawyers' Tongues," captures the chaos of the hurricane's wake with notable skill.
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Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm
The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or right from the street. Lacy iron balconies that wrap around the historic buildings of the French Quarter. A leisurely meal under a canopy of wisteria.
In vibrant watercolors and detailed sketches, artist Diana Gessler captures the unique charm that makes New Orleans alluring: Mardi Gras, the Cabildo, Jackson Square, the Court of the Two Sisters, St. Louis Cemetery, the Jazz Festival, the River Road Plantations, the Cajun country, sumptuous Creole cuisine, and Audubon's Aquarium of the Americas. In fascinating detail--on everything from the making of Mardi Gras, Napolean's death mask, the city's inspired architectural and garden designs, and favorite author hangouts to famous New Orleanians and Aunt Sally's Creole pralines--Very New Orleans celebrates the city, the Cajun country, the people, and our history
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Rampart Street
As the third Storyville mystery begins, Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr has just returned to New Orleans. Having only recently solved the case of the jass murders, he is drawn reluctantly into the investigation of a new murder- that of a well-to-do gentleman on seedy Rampart Street. Then another wealthy society man turns up dead, and the detective learns that the two victims were acquainted years ago. In a spider's web of coincidence, the second murder has been witnessed-or has it?-by the man who's now keeping Justine, Valentin's old girlfriend, as his paramour. Valentin probes deeper even as the city's most powerful leaders pressure him to drop the investigation. What could he be getting close to, and what nerves might he unwittingly strike?
David Fulmer has created a heart-pounding mystery in this, his soulful detective's most dangerous case yet.
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Chasing The Devil's Tail
Not New Orleans—but Storyville—noir…and all that jazz! 1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift—jasser—to blow a riff on the city’s music that pulses with new rhythms and notes. But the real King of Storyville is Tom Anderson, the district’s powerful property owner and political fixer, who employs Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr to dig into the deaths of a string of prostitutes. Each victim is found with a black rose. Is a serial killer leaving a calling card? Is King Bolden losing his mind as he stretches his genius to its limits? Why is an elderly priest sent away under care?
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Jass
In the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call "jass" have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to investigate, he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band, and the only one left alive has gone into hiding.
As he digs deeper, Valentin becomes convinced that a shadowy woman is the key to the mystery. His efforts to find her touch nerves, and soon Tom Anderson, known as the "King of Storyville," police lieutenant J. Picot, and even the mayor of New Orleans want him off the case. It's all the proof Valentin needs that there is something even larger and darker at the heart of this sordid business.
Seductively told, expertly plotted, and terrifically concluded, Jass is the perfect encore to Fulmer's first novel in the Valentin St. Cyr series.
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Thank You, Boys A Salute to the Saints by the Times-Picayune (2006)
New Orleans football fans can continue the celebration of their team’s incredible and inspiring season in this dazzling full-color book. The book takes an in-depth look at the Saints’ amazing 2006 campaign, while recapping their first-ever trip to the NFC Championship Game, through stories and photos first found in the pages of The Times- Picayune, New Orleans’ award-winning daily newspaper.
Thank You, Boys is full of exciting full-color photos, taking fans through the great moments of the Saints’ remarkable season when they seemingly lifted the spirits of a city still struggling to heal after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Included are game recaps from The Times-Picayune, as well as statistics and complete coverage of the playoff victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in front of a boisterous Superdome crowd.
In addition to complete game coverage, fantastic player profiles are included that feature the Saints’ biggest star performers, including quarterback Drew Brees and running backs Reggie Bush and Deuce McAllister, along with Coach Sean Payton. The ultimate keepsake, this book makes a great gift for any fan of the greatest team in the history of New Orleans Saints football.
This is a limited edition book so get your copy while supplies last!!!
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Red River
Hailed as "powerful," "accomplished," and "spellbinding," Lalita Tademy's first novel Cane River was a New York Times bestseller and the 2001 Oprah Book Club Summer Selection. Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, she takes her family's story even further, back to a little-chronicled, deliberately-forgotten time...and the struggle of three extraordinary generations of African-American men to forge brutal injustice and shattered promise into a limitless future for their children... RED RIVER
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Cane River
Mingling historical fact with fiction, Lalita Tademy's epic novel is based on the lives of four generations of African American women and is the result of years of exhaustive research and an obsessive odyssey to uncover her family's past.
They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent early years of the twentieth century.
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Gardens of New Orleans
New Orleans is a gardener's paradise. Fragrant ginger and night-blooming jessamines scent the air. Nary a crack in the cement or divot in the wall is free from rogue ferns, mosses, or draping greenery. For generations, residents from wildly varied cultures and sensibilities have been at work creating magnificent gardens throughout the city. Gardens of New Orleans explores this rich history and tours public gardens, as well as opens the doors to lovingly tended private balcony, patio, and mansion grounds. Interviews discuss the environmental and cultural forces that shaped the gardens. In photography as sumptuous as his acclaimed New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, Richard Sexton vividly illustrates the many traditions interwoven in this bewitching city's landscape heritage.
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New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence
This is an ambitious photo-essay focusing on the historic architecture and neighborhoods of New Orleans, the effects of the passage of time on this historic landscape, and the lifestyles and trappings of some of the city's more eccentric, creative, and impassioned residents. With a distinctive embossed cloth spine and a dust jacket-less cover, New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence is presented as a photo album of the city. This incredible book is perhaps Richard Sexton's most successful book to date. Released in 1993, Elegance and Decadence is now in a fifth hardcover printing and there are now about 40,000 books in print.
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Orleans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carre'
This is no average coffee-table book, here is a bittersweet narrative and photographic story of the Vieux Carré and more. Paying tribute to an age-old city — pummeled and storm-lashed, divided yet reunited and resolute in its darkest hours — this compelling work embraces the spirit and shared vision that helps the people of New Orleans stare down, rise above and survive the passage of time and disaster. A highly unusual offering in the marketplace, this original, unprecedented compilation is a crossover title that breaks boundaries and bypasses the norm. This incredible book was written by TJ Fisher; Roy F. Guste, Jr. and Louis Sahuc...It has 388 pages with 378 beautiful photos... it's a perfect coffee table book weighing in at 5.3 lbs! Also 100% of all publisher profits go to French Quarter preservation
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Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way
New Orleans' Canal Street has been thriving and changing ever since it was first carved out of the French Quarter in 1807. Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way takes you down memory lane on this historic thoroughfare. This profusely illustrated book was authored by two city celebrities: Local historian John Magill is the curator of the Historic New Orleans Collection, and Peggy Scott Laborde is a popular WYES-TV host.
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New Orleans Then and Now
Celebrating this beloved city, New Orleans Then and Now offers a unique combination of historic interest and contemporary beauty. This book features dozens of fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. Each work is a visual lesson in the historic changes of one of our greatest urban landscapes.
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Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana's River Road
In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed "New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence," author and photographer Richard Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions--"some inhabited, many now long abandoned--"of Louisiana's River Road. Bordering the Mississippi, these antebellum landmarks were once the epitome of gracious living in the Deep South. Over the past century, these grand dwellings have slowly succumbed to time, humidity, and the reclamation of the land: first by nature, then by real-estate developers who built subdivisions, oil refineries, and strip malls where curtains of Spanish moss once swayed from the live oaks. This collection--"featuring over 200 haunting color photographs with extensive captions explaining the architectural significance and history of each structure--"is a beautiful elegy for a rapidly disappearing landscape and its ghosts.
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Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans
This book captures the dynamic history of this beautiful city by the mighty Mississippi River like no other. The list of governors, mayors, and other dignitaries in the cities long and interesting history is exceptional. This book is an indispensable tool or tour guide. It’s been a perennial best seller for many years. If you’re interested in finding out about the history of New Orleans, this is the book you want.
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The Majesty of the Garden District
Targeted especially for lovers of history, architecture, or the glory days gone-by, this acclaimed series takes a detailed look at the architectural beauty and majesty of historic cities and geographic areas of the South. Much of the charm of these areas comes from the striking architecture that has survived earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, wars, and "progress". In his final work, critically acclaimed photographer Paul Malone visits forty-three picturesque landmarks of New Orleans' famed Garden District to capture the history, design, and grandeur of these stately mansions with his brilliant full-color photographs. Lee Malone details the architectural styles, histories, and interior designs to make this book a beautiful addition to the Majesty Architecture series.
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Gumbo Ya-Ya Folk Tales of Louisiana
Long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folktales and customs, Gumbo Ya-Ya ("Everybody Talks at Once") chronicles the stories and legends that have emerged from the bayou country.
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