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The Majesty of St. Charles Avenue
Presented with unparalleled visual poetry and lyricism, the grandeur of this jewel of America's great avenues is unveiled, taking readers behind the beveled glass doors and into the incomparable homes of St. Charles Avenue. Many of these interiors have never been published. Working together for the first time as a photographer/writer team, Kerri McCaffety and her mother, Cynthia Reece McCaffety, tell the story of St. Charles Avenue as a pictorial biography of the grandest thoroughfare of America's most romantic city. This volume will stand as the definitive story of St. Charles Avenue.
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New Orleans in Photographs
From Cajun cooking to the Mardi Gras celebration, this gorgeous photographic tour celebrates the sights and attractions of New Orleans. From historic buildings and architecture, to the natural beauty of the city's parks and waterfront, New Orleans in Photographs captures the spirit of this beloved city. Each photograph highlights a famous sight or location throughout the city, as well as lesser known attractions and hidden gems. Captions offer history, trivia, and interesting anecdotes.
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The Majesty of New Orleans
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.” This is a remarkable and memorable look at the architecture, courtyards and patios, ironwork, and cemeteries of New Orleans. A document of historic sites and landmarks.
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
This long out-of-print chronicle of the sordid history of New Orleans's underworld by Asbury ("The Gangs of New York") chronicles the city's history as the first gambling capital in the United States, its bordellos, and its violent street crime.
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Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans
The new edition: Two years after its original release, the new Obituary Cocktail has more bars, photos, drink recipes, and quotes. Six added spreads include the bar in the kitchen at Commander's Palace, The Circle Bar and its Herradura tequila shot with tonic--the Harry Tonic Jr.--and Butler's fantastically seedy interior.
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Etouffee', Mon Amour: The Great Restaurants of New Orleans
Etouffee, Mon Amour: The Great Restaurants of New Orleans, includes virtually no shots of food, Kerri McCaffety implies that there's more than taste to the staying power of a great New Orleans restaurant. The text she weaves around the images places each restaurant in a historical context, not necessarily a culinary one. Savor the beauty of many of New Orleans' finest restaurants captured by the Crescent City's first lady of photography...Kerri McCaffety.
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The Napoleon House
The Napoleon House, with its 200-year-old colonial charm, has seduced New Orleans visitors and locals for generations and become a favorite destination for all connoisseurs of atmosphere. In vibrant prose and beautiful photographs, Mikko Macchione and Kerri McCaffety tell its story, from its 18th-century beginnings as the home of one of la Nouvelle Orléans’ most prominent citizens, through its incarnation as the mainstay of one Italian family, and finally, to its maturity as one of the world’s great bars.
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A Confederacy of DUNCES
If ever a book deserved to be made into a movie, it’s this one. Join in the follies of Ignatius J. Reilly as he fights for personal justice. He is a hilarious and often misunderstood character, one you won't easily forget. A Confederacy of DUNCES is an American comic masterpiece that out swifts Swift, whose poem gives the book its title. Set in New Orleans, the novel bursts into life on Canal Street under the clock at D. H. Holmes department store. Filled with unforgettable characters and unbelievable plot twists, shimmering with intelligence, and dazzling in its originality, John Kennedy Toole’s comic classic just keeps getting better year after year.
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Managing Ignatius
In the 1960s John Kennedy Toole wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which details the uproarious misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, an overweight genius misfit. Though he has visions of grandeur, Ignatius winds up selling wienies for Paradise Vendors, Inc. (the fictional equivalent of Lucky Dogs), in New Orleans' famed French Quarter. Lest you think that the outlandish world of Ignatius was only a figment of Toole's vivid imagination, in Managing Ignatius Jerry E. Strahan relates his amusing - and bemusing - experiences working for more than two decades with the audacious characters who compose the actual stable of Lucky Dog vendors.
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New Orleans A Pictorial Souvenir
A smaller version of the spectacular Photographic Tour titles, these souvenir-sized guides contain Carol M. Highsmith's stunning images and Ted Landphair's enriching, accessible text. Capturing the essence of a destination and affordably priced for impulse buys, here are beautifully designed guides that feature 64 pages of full-color photographs. The perfect souvenir or gift for anyone who savors the lure of history, unforgettable architecture, cultural vitality, and natural beauty.
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New Orleans Cemeteries Life In the Cities of the Dead
From the edge of the French Quarter to the heart of the bayou, New Orleans Cemeteries is a journey through her phenomenal cemeteries. Robert and Mason Florence depict the "cities of the dead" in all their grandeur and decay, their exquisite artisanship and humble memorials, their voluminous historical accounts of the city and undefinable spiritual qualities. This book follows the renowned tradition of New Orleans's multiple, aboveground burial from the founding of St. Louis Cemetery #1 in 1789 to All Saints' Day observances of recent years.
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Storyville, New Orleans
"The book is well-written and has a fast, joyfully loose, innovative pace—like one of Jelly Roll Morton's ragtime performances. . . . You can almost get the feeling that if you went down to Canal and Basin streets and walked a block or two downtown, you might just find the district still there, and the tinkle of beer glasses and piano keys coming out of the open doors of the nearest saloon."
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
Before committing suicide in 1974, Norma Wallace began to record her memories. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Wallace ran a bordello in the French Quarter, and she is both famous and infamous in New Orleans for the long run of her enterprise, a city record, and for the men and women with whom she made history. A fiction writer by trade, author Christine Wiltz, whose promotion of this work included an NPR interview and several university speaking engagements, took two years worth of tape recordings left by Wallace and combined them with her own notable research to produce The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld. Encouraged by Jean Bernard, the wife of Wallace's fifth and final husband, Wayne Bernard, who was thirty-nine years younger than Wallace, Wiltz wrote the story of the life and legacy of Norma Wallace.
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Masking and Madness: Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Winner of the 2003 GOLD Benjamin Franklin Award from Publisher's Marketing Association, MASKING AND MADNESS: MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS is the only book devoted to the costumes of Carnival, a luminous portrait of the celebration that defines America's most profanely spiritual city, by New Orleans' preeminent photographer. More than 170 photographs capture the stunning spectrum of Mardi Gras, New Orleans style. Another in a long line of outstanding books by Kerri McCaffety, New Orleans' "First Lady of Photography."
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Mardi Gras Indians
The first book that looks beyond the beading, feathering, and dancing of these members of New Orleans' black community to tell the story of how the traditions began and why they continue today. Michael Peter Smith, an award-winning photographer, traces this spectacle back to its ancient African origins and, through a combination of stylistic images and documented research, provides one of the most authentic examinations of this art of cultural preservation.
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