Cultural Region/Mid-South
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Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man’s Crusade for Justice
$23.99 Add to cartAn unsolved murder spree that left a town frozen in fear…
In rural Texas, just before Christmas in 1984, a young nurse was found raped and murdered in her Wichita Falls home. Within weeks, a second w- Author: Stowers, Carlton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1250001692
- Language: English
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana: A Personal Biography
$44.95 Add to cartThroughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana’s courts. A Mo
- Author: Emanuel, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137936
- Language: English
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The Café Brûlot
$24.95 Add to cartThe Caf? Br?lot examines the cocktail that was born of a legend and has endured through the centuries, showcasing New Orleans’s love of flavored drama. A combination of coffee, liquor, and fire, Caf? … [more below]
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: Strachan, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176044
- Language: English
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Explorer’s Guide Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Great Destination
$23.99 Add to cartWith a strong focus on modern-day arts and music enclaves, as well as the storied sites where the blues got their start; hundreds of top-notch dining, lodging, and recreational recommendations; over o
- Series: Great Destinations Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail #0
- Author: Gage, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1581571011
- Language: English
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Prairie County
$31.99 Add to cartPrairie County was aptly named when it was organized in 1846, as a large portion of its southern end was covered with prairie grass at the time. In 1904, W.H. Fuller raised the first successful rice c… [more below]
- Author: Sayger, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1531668127
- Language: English
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Obituary Cocktail: The Great Saloons of New Orleans
$35.00 Add to cartA tour of some of the most historic saloons in America.
There is no doubt that New Orleans has more drinking establishments per capita than any other city in the United States. Lavishly illustrated wi
- Author: McCaffety, Kerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1455615846
- Language: English
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The Texas Connection with the American Revolution
$17.95 Add to cartAll too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English colonies. Important as they were, they do not tell the whol… [more below]
- Author: Thonhoff, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571684182
- Language: English
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Texas BBQ: Platefuls of Legendary Lone Star Flavor
$19.99 Read moreExperience flavor as big as the Lone Star State itself
Texans aren’t shy to proclaim that the nation’s best barbecue comes from inside the borders of the Lone Star State. Tipping ten-gallon hats to- Author: The Editors of Southern Living
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0848753364
- Language: English
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Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans
$32.50 Add to cartAfter Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans in 2005, Cooking Up a Storm was published to tell the story–recipe by recipe–of one of the great food cities of the world and the determination of it… [more below]
- Author: Bienvenu, Marcelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1452144001
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Read moreBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas
$18.99 Add to cartIn Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped the
- Author: Hutchison, Kay Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0062130714
- Language: English
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times Bestseller
One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized th- Author: Hollandsworth, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118492
- Language: English
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The New Orleans Kitchen: Classic Recipes and Modern Techniques for an Unrivaled Cuisine [A Cookbook]
$40.00 Add to cartA modern instructional with 120 recipes for classic New Orleans cooking, from James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur Justin Devillier.
IACP AWARD FINALIST – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF- Author: Devillier, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0399582290
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of East Tennessee
$31.99 Add to cartCritically acclaimed author Joe Guy serves up a stout batch of East Tennessee history in this latest collection of articles from his popular newspaper column. From Chattanooga up to Knoxville, and eve… [more below]
- Author: Guy, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1540218961
- Language: English
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New Orleans Houses: A House-Watcher’s Guide
$25.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest outdoor museums in the world, New Orleans is acclaimed for its unique architecture. Glimpses of its evolving character from the colonial period to the present can be found in the o
- Author: Vogt, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1455624667
- Language: English
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Mémère’s Country Creole Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from Louisiana’s German Coast
$34.95 Add to cartM m re’s Country Creole Cookbook showcases regional dishes and cooking styles associated with the “German Coast,” a part of southeastern Louisiana located along the Mississippi River north of New Orle
- Series: Southern Table
- Author: Wilson, Nancy Tregre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 14, 2018
- ISBN10: 0807168971
- Language: English
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Remembering the Days of Sorrow: The Wpa and the Texas Slave Narratives
$24.95 Add to cartBuoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previously held beliefs of American slavery. Under particular scrutiny was the belief in slavery’s paternalist
- Author: Goodwin, Ronald E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1933337478
- Language: English
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Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, and from treasured local cultural traditions to the national display of Mexican Texas’ finest talent, m俍ica tejana is
- Series: Fronteras Series, Sponsored by Texas A&m International Unive #1
- Author: San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1585441880
- Language: English
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Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations
$26.99 Add to cartCelebrate like they do in The Big Easy with Chef Kevin Belton’s newest cookbook.
The spotlight in this third book from the star of New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton is on the festivals and celebrat
- Author: Belton, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1423651553
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$41.65 Add to cartAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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