louisiana

In 1920 Louisiana, Belle Cantrell stops mourning her dead husband, whom she killed, and decides to create a new life for herself, setting off a series of events that forever change Belle and her small town.

A young Acadian learns the reasons behind his family's ouster from his birthplace and their struggles before finding a new home in Louisiana.

A collection of French-language tales given in the Cajun French and its English translation, along with commentaries. Includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, improvised stories, and legendary tales.

Declan Fitzgerald leaves his Boston law practice to restore a dilapidated mansion in the Louisiana bayou to its former splendor, but Declan soon becomes wrapped up in trying to solve the mystery behind a long-ago tragedy.

Willie Stark is an ordinary man from a rural town who demands that crooked politicians and shady businessmen in Louisiana be held accountable for the collapse of a poorly built school. When he decides to run for governor of Louisiana, he befriends Jack Burden, a young journalist who ends up working for him. However, when Stark asks Burden to investigate some damaging information on an old family friend, Burden questions his own morality and Stark's surprising transformation into an inflexible leader who will stop at nothing to remain in power.

When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.

Two young African-American men, one condemned to death for a murder and the other a teacher, form a bond in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s.

Diary of Sarah Morgan who lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana describing life in the South during the Civil War.

Presents Kate Chopin's 1899 novel about an unhappy wife and mother who embarks on an affair with a younger man and eventually commits suicide; and includes twelve short stories of Creole Louisiana, as well as a scholarly introduction and a reading group guide.

In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.