new orleans (la.)

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning a recent murder of a Louisiana Senator.

Air pirate Andan Cly, having decided to straight, is about to embark on his first legitimate mission when he is summoned to New Orleans by his former lover Josephine Early, a brothel owner and Union spy, who presents him with an intriguing proposal to retrieve a prototype submarine from the depths of Lake Pontchartrain.

Discusses Edgar Degas's 1872 trip to post-Civil War New Orleans to meet his mother's family, suggesting that the visit elicited some of his finest paintings, and discusses the influence of some local writers.

Rowan, queen of the coven, attempts to escape from the evil spell of the demon Lasher, taking with her their child.

A lifetime of family secrets are revealed after thirty-five-year-old carpenter James Jack Wright finds his beloved "Tante" Marguerite Deo, the woman who raised him from the age of four, dead in the winter woods outside their cabin.

In 1899 New Orleans, Louisiana, the Travelin' Nine must try once again to outsmart the Chancellor, but even the magic baseball may not help while the players suspect there is a mole on the team.

On her thirteenth birthday, Jalen unwittingly brings the twelve signs of the zodiac to life through a mysterious old book, and soon she, her friend Ellie, and Ellie's brother, Brennan, are battling in the streets of New Orleans to defeat the twelve and their little-known companion before time runs out.

When Nancy goes on vacation in New Orleans, she and the Hardy boys investigate a crooked real estate scheme and the appearance of a dead body at a masquerade party.

After the death of the beloved grandmother who raised her, high-school student Kendall Washington travels to New Orleans expecting to be taken in by her only living relative, an aunt, but the reunion does not go as planned.

Fourteen-year-old Ricky and his family, having tried to leave New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, find themselves stranded with thousands of other residents in the Superdome.