new orleans (la.)

Alfie and Emilia magically travel to New Orleans with their great-aunt Zia, where they help save a jazz performance venue and find a long-lost cookbook.

Thirteen-year-old aspiring fashion designer Reesie Boone is eagerly anticipating her birthday when she can finally sew her first outfit on Ma Maw's sewing machine. But Hurricane Katrina hits her city of New Orleans while Reesie is home alone, and she is forced to escape in a boat along with her elderly neighbor, Miss Martine. Although Reesie is finally rejoined with her family, they still have a long journey to undertake before they can return home.

An ex-nun, an ex-con, and an ex-cop stumble onto a private fund-raising scheme to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. Together they have decided the several million dollars raised should not leave New Orleans.

A young woman, raised by her grandparents in the bayous of Louisiana, clings to the love of a man whose parents forbid him to associate with her as she seeks out her father and learns of the deception and blackmail from the past.

When Ruby is sent to an exclusive boarding school and treated with snobbishness and contempt, she dreams of finding happiness in a loving home.

Julia, having decided to go to New Orleans with her youth group in order to get away from her messy life, meets Miles and spends the night dancing under the stars and sharing secrets. But, when a hurricane hits, Julia is forced to face reality.

Now in possession of the Eye of Ananke, Nick battles the demons within him all while his archnemesis is intent on reclaiming his place as the harbinger of Armageddon.

"Maureen Coughlin is a bona fide New Orleans cop now, and, with her training days behind her, she likes to think she's getting the lay of the land. Then a mysterious corpse leads to more questions than answers, and a late-night traffic stop goes very wrong. The fallout leaves Maureen contending with troubled friends, fraying loyalties, cop-hating enemies old and new, and an elusive, spectral, and murderous new nemesis--and all the while navigating the twists and turns of a city and a police department infected with dysfunction and corruption"--Amazon.com.

A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.