louisiana

Chronicles the lives and exploits of Jean and Pierre Laffite, privateers along the Gulf Coast during the early 1800s and describes how they raided Spanish merchant ships and came to assist the U.S. against English during the War of 1812.

A fact-based novel in which the author draws upon her own family history to trace four generations of African-American women from slavery on a Creole plantation to the pre-civil rights South.

When LeRoi Tremain is forced to leave his home after he kills two white deputies, he embarks on a journey brings him face to face with the horror of World War I, the Mob in Harlem, and the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana.

In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Mama to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.

Enchanted by the music of Wild Turkey and the Loblollies, Brewster Ferret follows them to their home in a Louisiana bayou and tries to make a place for himself in the animal community there.

Presents information about the state of Louisiana and its nickname, motto, and emblems.

A photographic introduction to the history, geography, industries, culture, wildlife, and sights of Louisiana.

Mason, a developmentally disabled teen in Louisiana who possesses the power to project images from his mind into others' sight, puts his ability to devastating use when his older brother Gene, a drug-dealing sadist who routinely beats Mason, has Rene, Mason's only true friend, brutally beaten, believing she has witnessed a murder he committed.

Presents five short stories dealing with early to mid-twentieth-century African-American life among the old cane plantations of Louisiana.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked when her work on the skull of a newly discovered victim reveals a face nearly identical to that of Jane, her adopted daughter with detective Joe Quinn, and the situation worsens when Eve and Joe learn Jane has been targeted by a serial killer obsessed with women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress in ancient Rome.