louisiana

After being released from prison, Tyrone Stokes returns home to find his son awaiting execution after being convicted of rape and murder, but Tyrone believes his son is innocent and will go to any length to prove it.

Moinette, a mixed-race child born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, gains an education by listening to the lessons given her young mistress, and when she is sold and separated from her beloved mother at the age of fourteen, she immediately begins to make plans to gain her freedom.

When Jeremy Bishop's estranged father dies, Jeremy travels back to his boyhood home to bury him, but while he is there he begins to uncover hidden secrets that reveal his true identity and help him make peace with his past.

After a black officer is murdered near a Louisiana army base near the end of World War II, a black army attorney is sent to investigate. What he turns up is a tangled web of racism from all sides.

Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.

Discusses the land and climate, economy, government, and history of the state of Louisiana. Includes Internet links to Web sites.

Trosclair ignores his father's warning about Gargantua, the rogue alligator living in nearby Bayou Fontaine, and heads off into Bee Island Swamp to hunt for turtle eggs.

In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.

A collection of twenty-three stories by nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin, telling tales of passion, decadence, and sensuality.

Gives an overview of the state of Louisiana, including its history, geography, people, and living conditions.