new orleans (la.)

A young girl living in nineteenth century New Orleans struggles between her growing familiarity with voodoo and the precepts of the church.

Twelve-year-old Addie living with her straitlaced aunts in New Orleans unravels the mystery of her dead mother's past.

Eve Renner can't remember the night she was almost killed, but she does remember the body of an old friend lying in a pool of blood, and the face of her lover, Cole Dennis. Now there are more murders, and the only connection between them is a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness. Eve's father was a doctor there, and Eve spent hours exploring its forbidden passageways. She must search the decaying rooms to find the key to a terrible crime, and the only one she can trust is Cole Dennis, her former lover and just possibly, a cold-blooded killer.

Based on the true story of six-year-old Ruby, one of the first Black students to integrate public elementary school in New Orleans.

This book describes the Union victory at New Orleans during the Civil War.

Provides information about the Voodoo religion as practiced in New Orleans in the nineteenth century, and discusses the activities of so-called Voodoo queen Marie Laveau.