LSU Press
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Brown Pelican
$22.95 Add to cartIn this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity’s complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically bottoml
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Fertel, Rien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178462
- Language: English
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Mike: The Tigers of Lsu
$29.95 Add to cartMike the Tiger–the only live tiger mascot in the United States–is an iconic presence on LSU’s campus. From his tiger sanctuary next to Tiger Stadium, he draws a steady stream of fans, adults and chi… [more below]
- Author: Baker, David G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180300
- Language: English
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President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
$44.95 Add to cartHistorians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party–the first full–scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years
- Author: Leahy, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0807172545
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932
$39.95 Add to cartFounded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew no
- Author: Blackwood, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179140
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Indians
$22.95 Add to cartMardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebra… [more below]
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Williams, Nikesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178705
- Language: English
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City of the Undead: Voodoo, Ghosts, and Vampires of New Orleans
$29.95 Add to cartFrom its looming above-ground cemeteries to the ghosts believed to haunt its stately homes, New Orleans is a city deeply entwined with death, the undead, and the supernatural. The reasons behind New O
- Author: Roberts, Robin Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180262
- Language: English
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Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
$39.95 Add to cartIn Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to de
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0807178543
- Language: English
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Kingfish U: Huey Long and Lsu
$34.95 Add to cartNo political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguishe
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179523
- Language: English
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Court of No Record: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry
Jenny Molberg’s third collection of poetry, The Court of No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony against a legal system that often fail- Author: Molberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179027
- Language: English
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
$44.95 Add to cartMarlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was
- Author: Trestman, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807172901
- Language: English
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For Today: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartA revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree’s For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father’s death and struggles to raise he
- Series: Barataria Poetry
- Author: Hembree, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: January 31, 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181420
- Language: English
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Unusually Grand Ideas: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartTitled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis
- Author: May, James Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: February 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807176591
- Language: English
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Alabama: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartAlabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved stran
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
- Author: Jones, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180106
- Language: English
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America’s First Great Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartOn the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of
- Author: Baker, Meredith Henne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177083
- Language: English
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The Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town
$49.95 Add to cartA. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders, and homeowners to embrace the finest elements of Lo
- Author: Vetter, Cyril E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0807123714
- Language: English
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The Earl of Louisiana
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long’s commitment to a mental institut
- Author: Liebling, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0807133434
- Language: English
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A Confederacy of Dunces
$34.95 Add to cartAfter four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Tool
- Author: Toole, John Kennedy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 11, 2014
- ISBN10: 0807159603
- Language: English
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The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
$39.95 Add to cartKilled in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat. His unexpected demise had cascadin
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180483
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans (Revised)
$24.95 Add to cart“He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot’s elbow–a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her sho
- Author: Delavigne, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 07, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807152919
- Language: English
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The Sazerac
$24.95 Add to cartThe Sazerac ranks among the most famous drinks of a city famous for its drinking, but where did the classic New Orleans cocktail originate? Drinks journalist Tim McNally dives into the history of the
- Series: Iconic New Orleans Cocktails
- Author: McNally, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0807171662
- Language: English
