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41) Tarnished gold
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Landry family volume 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Summary
Gabriel Landry, pregnant and desolate, is hidden in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, visited only by Mama, a traiteur or Cajun healer.
42) Gone to Green
Author
Series
Green volume 1
Summary
In Gone to Green, Lois goes from being a corporate journalist at a large paper in the Midwest to the owner of The Green News-Item, a small twice-weekly newspaper in rural North Louisiana. The paper was an unexpected inheritance from a close colleague, and Lois must keep it for at least a year, bringing a host of challenges, lessons, and blessings into her life. When Lois pulls into Green on New Yeargass Day, she expects a charming little town full...
45) The alchemy
Author
Series
Creoles volume 3
Summary
Each book in The Creoles Series revolves around one of four girls who become close friends while attending a convent school in New Orleans. The third book, The Alchemy focuses on Simone d'Or, a vivacious young woman hardened by high society life, and Colin Seymour, a talented young man from humble beginnings. As the famed singer and composer Lord Beaufort nurtures Colin's singing voice, Colin rises to stardom in the opera world. At first, Simone judges...
46) The immortelles
Author
Series
Creoles volume 2
Summary
For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both...
47) At fault
Author
Summary
At Fault (1890) is a novel by American author Kate Chopin. Published at the author's expense, At Fault is the undervalued debut of a pioneering feminist and gifted writer who sought to portray the experiences of Southern women struggling to survive in an era decimated by war and economic hardship.
Thérèse Lafirme is a Creole widow whose husband's death has made the Place-du-Bois plantation on the Cane River in northwestern Louisiana her sole responsibility....
48) Definitely dead
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Series
Summary
Wedding fever has come to Bon Temps, Louisiana! Unfortunately, buxom, blonde, beautiful, and telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie is not the bride-to-be, so she takes the opportunity to travel to New Orleans on family business. As heir to the estate of her newly dead cousin Hadley, Sookie unearths a big secret. Soon it becomes clear that more than a few people will do anything to stop Sookie from looking into Hadley's past.
49) The tapestry
Author
Series
Summary
The Creoles Series tells the stories of four young women who attend the Ursuline Convent School in New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Each book is a romantic adventure that focuses on one woman as she faces the trials of life and faith. In this striking conclusion to The Creoles Series, Gilbert Morris delivers his award-winning storytelling, told against a cultural background unique to this series alone.Abandoned as an infant on the...
51) Body of evidence
Author
Series
Summary
Emma Lachance is taken by surprise when she runs into her friend and high-school crush, Finn Duhon, on a construction site in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. But the last thing she expects to find is the corpse of her friend, a local journalist whose relentlessly scathing articles have enraged every lawmaker and opportunist in town, including the mayor—Emma's husband.
When more bodies are found, Emma and Finn wonder if the link is Secrets, an eclectic...
When more bodies are found, Emma and Finn wonder if the link is Secrets, an eclectic...
52) Shadow of doubt
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 2
Formats
Summary
When police officer Stan Shepherd is rushed to the hospital complaining of gastric pains, his horrified friends and family find out that he has been poisoned with arsenic. The situation is especially traumatic for Stan's wife, Celia, whose first husband died after being given arsenic. Although she was acquitted of that crime, local police decide that there is no way two husbands being poisoned in the same way was a coincidence, and Celia is arrested....
53) Leopard's prey
Author
Series
Leopard people volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Summary
"From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard shifter Remy Boudreaux has been served well by his uncanny gifts. And right now, New Orleans could use a homicide detective like Remy. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. But something else is drawing Remy into the twilight--a beautiful jazz singer bathed night after night in a flood of...
55) Ghost walk
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Series
Summary
A paranormal investigator comes to the aid of a frightened New Orleans businesswoman in this "unrelentingly suspenseful" romantic thriller (Booklist).
Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer...
56) Cane River
Author
Lexile Measure
970L
Summary
Follows four generations of African American women, from slavery to the early twentieth century, as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
58) Lucky in love
Author
Series
Lucky cowboys volume 1
Summary
"Beau hasn't got a lick of sense when it comes to women. Everything hunky rancher "Lucky" Beau Luckadeau touches turns to gold - except relationships. He's gone and lost track of the woman of his dreams, and now he's got himself tied up with a gold digger ... Milli can mend a fence, pull a calf, or shoot a rattlesnake between the eyes. When spitfire Milli Torres shows up to help out at the Lazy Z Ranch, she's horrified to find that her nearest neighbor...
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
650L
Summary
Set on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the 1970s, the book is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
Louisiana, in the 1970s. A sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation, and finds one young white woman, about eighteen old black men, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who killed the Cajun-- although each of the men is toting a shotgun only one of...