louisiana

Older sister Emma tells the story of the year when Lullah goes to school with the white children.

An introduction to the Pelican State, including its history, resources, famous citizens, and places of interest to visit.

A young, mentally-handicapped, African-American man in 1940s Louisiana, awaiting a death sentence after being wrongfully convicted of murder, receives jail cell visits from the local teacher, who attempts to impart some wisdom and pride to the condemned man before his death.

Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, who has a vampire boyfriend and the ability to read minds, turns down the request of former barmaid Arlene when she wants her job back, but then Arlene is found murdered and Sookie, after making bail, realizes that she must discover the truth with the help of her friends both living and undead.

Presents the diary of Priscilla Bond, a young woman who left the genteel Protestant seaboard culture of Chesapeake Bay and moved to a frontier plantation in south Louisiana with her husband in 1865, and witnessed the brutality of the Civil War.

Louisiana telepath and cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is friendly with a pack of werewolves and blood bonded to a vampire leader, finds herself caught in the middle of a werewolf power struggle and learns about her family's past and her powers from her great grandfather.

Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse unexpectedly inherits the estate of her cousin Hadley, a consort of the vampire queen of New Orleans, and finds herself facing a group of undead enemies who will stop at nothing to keep Sookie from looking into Hadley's past and possessions.

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds, thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she begins to fear for her life.

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is used to the undead, changeling, and preternatural beings that surround her, but the shapeshifter Quinn and the Rhodes vampire summit test Sookie's patience for the supernatural and pull her into a dangerous situation that threatens the fate of humanity.

Presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities in the southern Louisiana region, which has been identified by ethnographers as the most complex rural society in North America.