Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans, Paperback - Dan Baum

Reducere. Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and brac...

Reducere. "A real-life Confederacy of Dunces."--Kirkus Reviews When Jerry Strahan became manager of the Lucky Dogs hot dog cart in 1970s New Orleans, he assu...

Reducere. ``Interesting investigation and straightforward handling of sensational times and tricksters, of the cult of voodooism in all its manifestations. F...

I didn't do it. Those are the words Ann Marcel's ex-husband, Jon, mutters the day he staggers through her front door, covered in blood. Five years ...

Reducere. DescriptionBenjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery. When British spymaster Si...

Description"Don't go to Cold Bayou, brother ... Nuthin' good waiting for you there." New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January ha...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutall...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

It's said that New Orleans' "culture doesn't come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets." It is a proud city with interwoven stories of...

Reducere. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Sp...

DescriptionWhen a fellow cop is shot dead, homicide detective Quentin Archer suspects that there's far more to this case than meets the eye. One of...

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Liter...

Reducere. A renowned journalist for London's The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the definitive account of the ...

Reducere. This dynamic, challenging, and transforming vision of Christian theology, presented in a systematic manner, invites readers to approach the mystery...

Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these play...

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Reducere. Every New Orleanian knows Leah Chase's gumbo, but few realize that the Freedom Fighters gathered and strategized over bowls of that very dish. Or t...

Reducere. Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans leads travelers into the most authentic experience of the one-of-a-kind Louisiana city, working closely with an e...

Reducere. Based on the true story...Detective Colin Fitzgerald, only recently returned from World War I, with scars inside and out, is back in New Orleans an...

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Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Beneath the carefree atmosphere of Mardi Gras, something very sinister is going on in the intriguing new Quentin Archer mystery. Three murders so f...

In Tomb of the Eagles John Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe in Isbister in the Orkneys which had as its totem the magnificent whi...

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David R. Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of l...

Reducere. DescriptionFew cities boast a heritage as rich and a local color as dynamic as that of New Orleans. Known the world round for its unique architectu...

Reducere. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years...

Reducere. The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts--heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, sinners and saints. In this New Orleans, a serial...

A remarkable blend of history and drama seen through the eyes of a noted New Orleans bluesman. This extraordinary life history is the result of mor...

Reducere. In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened ...

Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride ... The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery. "Don't go to Cold Bayou, ...

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Reducere. New Orleans in the 1920's is a city of many faces. The gaiety of Mardi Gras is juxtaposed with the rampant corruption that earned New Orleans the n...

A deeply emotional combination of grief memoir and soldier's story.Illustrations: 8pp b/w

Reducere. Celebrate 300 years of New Orleans history Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive...

Reducere. This book is a gripping collection of American naval war diaries recently found in the National Archives about what was happening on the northern c...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Orleans: city of intrigue, supernatural secrets, and one enigmatic dragon. A deadly curse.... For 300 years, Gabriel Blakemore has s...

DescriptionA feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh...

Reducere. 1. Cold Cold Heart 2. Nightingale 3. One Flight Down 4. Seven Years 5. Feelin' the Same Way 6. Comes Love 7. Something Is Calling You 8. Come Away ...

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Reducere. When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born--the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a me...

Reducere. America's most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked the...

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Reducere. "One installment of noir stories from New Orleans wasn't enough, so Akashic and editor Julie Smith came back with a follow-up focusing on the 'clas...

A deeply emotional combination of grief memoir and soldier's story.

Reducere. Discover a serial killer you'll never forget Between 1918 to 1919 a serial killer ran rampant throughout New Orleans. His weapon of choice? The axe...

Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya must track down a killer who strikes in the holiest of places, in this gripping thriller by Number One bes...