louisiana

An introduction to Louisiana Creole and Cajun cultures, religion, family life, and more.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf of Mexico, leaving destruction in its wake. Learn about this disaster and its aftermath.

After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

In 1960, bored and lonely thirteen-year-old Sophie is not happy about spending the summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou until she finds a maze with a secretive and mischievous inhabitant. She then makes a wish and finds herself in 1860 at her family's home, where she is mistaken for a slave.

The story of two young black men, one condemned to death for a murder and the other a teacher, who form a bond in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s.

After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.

Relates the story of Courtney Miles, a high school student from the projects who risked his safety and his freedom to steal a bus and ferry his neighbors out of New Orleans, Louisiana, to safety, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

"In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--Provided by publisher.

Sheri Fink, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. She unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, of a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing. In this book, she exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters, and how we can do better.