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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that
- Author: Sapp, Erin Grayson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 080717792X
- Language: English
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Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War
$49.95 Add to cartFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book Prize
The fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard n- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Rable, George C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179779
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush
$39.95 Add to cartThe Presidents and the Planet recounts the story of the world’s greatest environmental dilemma through the eyes of early climate change pioneers. It begins in the 1950s, when American scientists first
- Author: Hakes, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 05 2024
- ISBN10: 807181900
- Language: English
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Nocturnal New Orleans
$59.95 Add to cartBehold the mystique of the New Orleans night–that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during “the witching hour.”
Darkness may unleash the Dionysian in the Cr- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182613
- Language: English
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Ever After: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn his final book, the celebrated poet Fred Chappell reflects on life and the beyond. Details drawn from daily actions, religion, classical myth, and the Appalachian landscape adorn this autumnal coll
- Author: Chappell, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182605
- Language: English
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Draw Me Without Boundaries
$22.95 Add to cartPowerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margar… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: July 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182451
- Language: English
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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864
$44.95 Add to cartWith On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeaste
- Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0807167479
- Language: English
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
$39.95 Add to cartCherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Author: Laney, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178020
- Language: English
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Acadiana: Louisiana’s Historic Cajun Country
$44.95 Read more“Acadiana” summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine. The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137235
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook: Recipes from Ignatius J.
$39.95 Add to cartIn John Kennedy Toole’s iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibes such as “canned food is a perversion,” or taking a
- Author: Nobles, Cynthia Lejeune
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0807161918
- Language: English
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The Danse Macabre: Celebration and Survival in New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartNew Orleans is a city of contradictions: comic and tragic, sacred and secular, profound and profane; steeped heavily in tradition and religion yet drenched in decadence and debauchery. The Danse Macab
- Author: Gerber, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0807180998
- Language: English
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Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
$34.95 Add to cartKudzu abounds across the American South. Introduced in the United States in the 1800s as a solution for soil erosion, this invasive vine with Eastern Asian origins came to be known as a pernicious inv
- Author: Horn-Muller, Ayurella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182001
- Language: English
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The ABCs of Lsu
$24.95 Add to cartTiger Nation’s youngest generation will delight in The ABCs of LSU. Rhymed verse and colorful drawings introduce children to the landmarks, history, activities, and traditions of Louisiana’s flagship
- Author: Taylor, Linda Colquitt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0807173878
- Language: English
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Molly the Pony: A True Story
$19.95 Add to cartMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So begins the true story of a patient pony who is rescued from a south Louisiana barn after
- Author: Kaster, Pam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133205
- Language: English
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Bayou d’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place
$34.95 Add to cartWinner of the John Burroughs Medal
Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp addresses the vibrant natural, cultural, and social history of a north Louisiana swamp. Kelby Ouchley grew up near Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp, and he- Author: Ouchley, Kelby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177318
- Language: English
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Black Aperture
$19.95 Add to cart2013 National Book Award Finalist
In his moving debut collection, Matt Rasmussen faces the tragedy of his brother’s suicide, refusing to focus on the expected pathos, blurring the edge between grief an- Author: Rasmussen, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 080715086X
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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Judas Ear: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartAnna Journey’s The Judas Ear resurrects a host of vanished people and places, often through marvelous Ovidian metamorphoses that seem as natural in the gritty tableaux of Richmond, Virginia, as in the
- Author: Journey, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176613
- Language: English
