Louisiana Books


The Hurricanes: One High School Team's Homecoming After Katrina Best Price: $14.00 In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina pummeled the lower end of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, a...	Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned Best Price: $11.41 I bought this book thinking it would be really validating for me to read about myself, as I was...	Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics Best Price: $12.34 If you don't want to be challenged, or you want to believe the Warren Commission Report that Lee...	1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina Best Price: $4.78 An excellent book - at times funny, always thought-provoking. It provides a deeper...	The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $8.40 Ken Wells can write. Let me repeat this fact. Ken Wells can write. If you like the grittiness...



The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Best Price: $7.99 I just reread this book after two years. My first time around I was skeptical how insightful a...	Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Best Price: $16.49 Johnson has done a splendid job of collating primary resources focused specifically on aspects...	The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square Best Price: $15.60 Sublette has done an amazing job pulling together political, cultural and social elements into a...	The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Best Price: $15.52 I read "The Day Freedom Died" during a family "Backroads" vacation in...	Why New Orleans Matters Best Price: $5.99 The author writes about life in New Orleans before the storm. He remembers the bands, the food,...



The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld Best Price: $5.99 This was an excellent book. I have almost finished it, and I have trouble putting it down. It...	The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans Best Price: $3.94 We often think we have read and heard enough about the history of slavery in the United States. ...	Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans Best Price: $28.00 In this splendid and groundbreaking history of colonial New Orleans, Shannon Dawdy demonstrates...	McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire Best Price: $5.99 Growing up 2 miles from Avery Island I never knew how famous the area was. Once I grew older and...	Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery Best Price: $12.00 First, disclosure of potential conflict of interest. The author and I are both faculty at the...

The Fighting Tigers, 1993-2008: Into a New Century of Lsu Football Best Price: $23.07 Magnificent, maddening, thrilling, heartbreaking--over the years, LSU football has been called...	A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans Best Price: $10.00 There's nothing wrong with this book. It's a good book. But it pales beside a great book, John...	Louisiana: A History Best Price: $29.65 "Louisiana has a distinctive history. It has occupied a position in the mind of most...	My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding Best Price: $28.16 I read this book in high school before I joined the Army. I did not understand a lot of his...	Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans (Vintage) Best Price: $8.50 Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans is my new favorite...

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Best Price: $15.00 This book is was not written in an enjoyable format. Martha Ward jumped from person to person...	Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers Best Price: $36.00 Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, veteran authorities on the Louisiana political scene,...	New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape Best Price: $19.50 New Orleans is an "inevitable city on an impossible site" is what Pierce Lewis said...	New Orleans Then and Now (Then & Now) Best Price: $8.97 I loved it. I lived in New Orleans when some of the "then" was still there, and seeing...	Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South Best Price: $18.00 This was a wonderful topic for a book -- how Southernness and Jewishness came together in the...

Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color Best Price: $16.50 This is a terrific historical book without getting so factual that it gets boring. It keeps you...	Louisiana Real and Rustic Best Price: $4.50 I purchased this book for an aspiring young chef & he loved it, has already tried several...	New Orleans 1867 Best Price: $47.25 The photos are quite beautiful and it's great to see images that haven't been seen as one single...	An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature Best Price: $10.00 Colten wrote this book in 2004. Or perhaps even earlier. Now, in October 2005, going through its...	Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long Best Price: $1.43 This is the way Huey Long wanted to be remembered. During the Depression, he did make promises...

Twelve Years a Slave (Library of Southern Civilization) Best Price: $14.50 I, like another reviewer, read this about 8 years ago when in a college Civil War course. I...	A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (American Made Music Series) Best Price: $26.35 Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years....	The Cajuns: Americanization of a People Best Price: $12.38 In the 1940s, WASP schoolteachers across Louisiana were corporally punishing any students caught...	Vestiges of Grandeur: Plantations of Louisiana's River Road Best Price: $20.70 I searched for hours for a coffee table book for a Christmas gift for a close friend who lives...	The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction Best Price: $12.47 The Colfax Massacre is a fabulous book--insightful, colorful, and very thorough. I don't...

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $13.50 ok. Maybe I'm biased since I am a direct descendant of many of the African/FPOC families listed...	Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans Best Price: $30.98 We were recently in New Orleans to help in the restoration of the area. During our...	The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf Best Price: $4.90 This is the best Laffite book on the market. Tremendous research and great references. This is a...	Brennan's New Orleans Cookbook...and the Story of the Fabulous New Orleans Restaurant [The Original Classic Recipes] Best Price: $12.89 This may very well be an excellent cook-book, what do I know?? The style (NO PICTURES) and the...	Breakfast At Brennan's And Dinner, Too: The original and most recent recipes from New Orleans' world-famous Brennan's Restaurant and a tribute to its founder, Owen Edward Brennan Best Price: $17.97 This is a superb cookbook from one of this country's finest dining establishments. It is not...

Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: And Other Streets of New Orleans Best Price: $10.00 This book reads like the city lives: Wild, smart, laidback, funny, quirky, non-p.c., liberal,...	Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase Best Price: $5.56 I am giving copies of this book for Christmas. Cerami may not offer the latest scholarship or...	The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina Best Price: $28.35 A beautiful and compelling portraiture of sorrow and loss, and the ravages of time frozen,...	Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico: Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters (W.L. Moody, Jr., Natural History Series , No 22) Best Price: $12.31 I really like the keys to help identify out fish by spines, etc, but some of the photos are not...	The French Quarter of New Orleans Best Price: $29.28 The French Quarter, by Jim Fraiser is one of countless books written about that unique, New...

Satchmo (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $7.00 Bought and read it twice in a couple weeks. Terrific imagery into old New Orleans. Get it-...	Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization) Best Price: $12.50 Like Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Stone wrote her diary during the Civil War. They were both...	What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation Best Price: $8.22 This book is notable in that some of it was written by those who lived through Katrina, mostly...	The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803 Best Price: $20.95 If your trying to find information on cajun history, this book is worth reading.	City Adrift: New Orleans Before & After Katrina Best Price: $14.23 "Everything that happened in Katrina was preventable, and everything that happened was...

Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century) Best Price: $15.30 In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots...	Lost in Katrina Best Price: $14.31 A absolute page turner. One cannot even imagine what these people went through, and while you're...	Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $0.01 The hurricane and flood occurred on August 29, 2005 NOT the 31st. Am anxious to read and review...	Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms Best Price: $2.85 At its best, this book gives the broadest, most clear-headed analysis so far of why and how New...	St. Bernard Fire Department in Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $12.89 I was a life-long resident of St Bernard Parish who longed to know what exactly happened to my...

Hurricane Audrey: The Deadly Storm of 1957 Best Price: $12.47 I live in Lake Charles, Louisiana. My mom was 11 when Audrey came through. I still remember...	A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Best Price: $4.45 By the time twenty years passed after the American evolution, the young United States, already...	Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone Best Price: $4.95 This book gives you great insight into life in New Orleans immediately after Katrina. The...	Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City Best Price: $10.95 Written with a very liberal slant, I found this book to be too biased in blaming the government...

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