louisiana

The Fact of a Body is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed, but about how we understand our past, the nature of forgiveness, and whether a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth.

"Follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death ... In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations."--Provided by publisher.

Bowser the mutt lives with eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother in the normally quiet Louisiana bayou town of St. Roch, but news that a bull shark has somehow made its way into the swamp has everyone excited, and the cash bounty for landing the shark has lured some very shady characters into town--one hunter in particular is prepared to go to any lengths to collect the money.

"Following the Civil War, feelings were mixed about the freedoms that Lincoln had granted to African American citizens through his Emancipation Proclamation. A group in Louisiana decided to challenge a state law that required companies to have railway cars separated by race. They orchestrated a situation in which a white-looking black man would sit in the white only part of the train and announce he was colored. In a landmark decision that supported the racist feelings in some areas of the country following the Civil War, the effort to secure equal rights at this time failed. The book provides insight into the details of the case and also includes questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology"--Amazon.com.

Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.

From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin?s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Long did more good for the state?s poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory.

A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.

In the lowlands of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina hit hard. Crescent City was flooded but St. Bernard was drowned. In some places, the saltwater rose twenty feet and ninety-five percent of all buildings experienced catastrophical flooding. Bayou folk, including Cajuns, Creoles,and French Indians like the Verdins, and descendants of Spanish pioneers who call themselves the Islenos, have lived and worked here for centuries, and are now struggling to retrieve their way of life. Since 2005, Monique Verdin and her family have attended Save the Coast meetings and her husband manages a plant nursery that propagates hurricane-hardened oak trees and other species to help restore and stabilize critical wetlands. They also are putting their faith in the twenty-three-mile long, thirty-two foot levee system that was built atop the scraped away seventeen-foot levees that failed in Katrina.

Based on the short story by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's, a young black boy accompanies his mother into town and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.

A young African-American man living in Louisiana in the 1940s is wrongly convicted of murder. Awaiting a death sentence, he receives jail cell visits from the local teacher who attempts to impart some wisdom and pride to the condemned man before his death.