New Orleans
With our 50 must-see places of the world we have 41 to 50. From jazz in New Orleans to exotic Zanzibar. Cruising the Amazon The Burj al Arab, Dubai Zanzibar : Home of jazz, mardi gras, the Missississippi, hot food and uninhibited people, New ... [... more]
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Tom Piazza
Tom Piazza is the author of the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters, the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War, and the widely acclaimed short-story collection Blues and Trouble, which won the James Michener Award for Fiction. ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Leslie Helakoski
Leslie Helakoski is the author of The Smushy Bus and Big Chickens, a Junior Library Guild selection. Born and raised near New Orleans, Leslie Helakoski received a degree in advertising from the University of Louisiana and one in illustration from ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Ti Adelaide Martin
Take Home the True Taste of New Orleans with More Than 150 Recipes from Commander's Palace Restaurant Commander's Palace is one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved restaurants in the country. It was named the outstanding restaurant in ... [... more]
Random House |
Andrew Fox
Jules Duchon was a real New Orleans vampire. Born and bred in the working-class Ninth Ward, bitten and smitten with the Big Easy. Driving through the French Quarter, stuck in a row of bumper-to-bumper cars that crept along Decatur Street like a ... [... more]
Random House |
Herbert Asbury
Herbert Asbury, an early 20th-century journalist, made a name for himself by documenting the gangs, pimps, prostitutes, and thieves that thrived in the underbellies of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and New Orleans. His works, still in print ... [... more]
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Patricia Rosemoor
On the sultry streets of New Orleans, Captain Scott Boulder and Leah Maguire are about to begin a deadly mission. The traumatized, genetically altered subjects of a Department of Defense experiment gone wrong have escaped, among them Rachel ... [... more]
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Marnie Woodrow
Marnie Woodrow is a former bookseller and the author of two acclaimed collections of short fiction, Rich in the detailed nuances of the human heart, and swimming in the decadent atmosphere of New Orleans, After Cleo arrives in New Orleans on ... [... more]
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Ella Brennan
Ella and Dick Brennan have been in the restaurant business for forty years. They own the highly praised Commander's Palace in New Orleans' Garden District, as well as Mr. B's Bistro in the French Quarter and Brennan's in Houston.Lynne Roberts is ... [... more]
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Jyl Benson
Jyl Benson, a native New Orleanian, is a frequent contributor to Time, New Orleans, and St. Charles Avenue magazines. She is the author of the Insight Compact Guide New Orleans and A Parent's Guide to New Orleans and the Mississippi Coast and was ... [... more]
Random House |
Shooting the Sun
He became a legend at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Before that he was a fiercely passionate senator who could barely finish a speech without becoming choked with rage. He was called coarse and illiterate. A slave owner, land ... [... more]
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Nine Lives
Originating in a heralded series of New Yorker articles, Nine Lives tells the story of New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over forty years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous ... [... more]
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