louisiana

Contains the title work about a Victorian-era wife and mother who becomes enamored with a young man she meets while on vacation, and includes twelve additional short stories by nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin.

Rippling Creek, Louisiana, 1948: Tate writes to Hank Williams about her film-star mother and famous-photographer father until, gradually, she gets to the truth.

Presents the 1899 novel about Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother who is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation, and includes thirty-two short stories by Kate Chopin, drawn from throughout her career.

Solomon Northup tells about being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South after having been a free citizen in New York during the mid-1800s.

High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends -- but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.

"Just when it seems that Anna Boyd's family has finally escaped Witness Protection, the normal life she has attempted to rebuild comes crashing down"--.

In Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, eleven-year-old Tate writes letters to her favorite country singer, sharing her dreams of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.

A young woman, raised by her grandparents in the bayous of Louisiana, clings to the love of a man whose parents forbid him to associate with her as she seeks out her father and learns of the deception and blackmail from the past.

Elsie, now twenty-one years old, wishes to marry an old friend but her father decrees she must first learn to manage her inheritance, including her mother's Louisiana sugar plantation and its slaves.