In the summer of the 1890s, Edna Pontellier and her children vacation in the coastal town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and, unsatisfied with her marriage and her role as parent, she has an affair which arouses and renews her soul.
A fictionalized story of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden, a cornet player in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who cut hair by day, played music by night, and went mad at the age of thiry-one.
The true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was one of the first African American students to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
Daquan Watson uses his gift for music to help him build a new future with New Orleans' biggest rap label, overcoming the dangers and tragedies of his childhood in the city's notorious, drug-infested projects, but even as he makes a new life for himself, Daquan wonders if he will ever be able to escape his urban upbringing.
Recounts the story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans in the 1960s.
The author examines the events in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and argues that the nation's failure to offer timely aid to Katrina victims indicates deeper problems in race and class relations.
Piano player Benjamin January becomes a scapegoat for the prominent men of nineteenth-century New Orleans when he volunteers to arrange a meeting between old friend Mademoiselle Madeleine and her husband's Creole mistress Angelique Crozat, and ends up being one of the last people to see Crozat alive.
