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Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A poetic tribute to a lesser-known part of African-American history describes how after working relentlessly for more than six days, slaves in nineteenth-century New Orleans were permitted to congregate in Congo Square.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976 WEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WEA

Contents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZ

Hudson, Wade

Summary: "The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUD

Magoon, Kekla

Summary: "A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRI

Contents: Gossip (Cyril Neville) (2:35) -- If it's good to you (it's good for you) (Eddie Bo) (2:29) -- Right place, wrong time (Ray J.) (2:55) -- Chicken strut (The Meters) (2:45) -- Tequila (Allen Toussaint) (3:11) -- Hot Tamales (The Prime Mates) (2:37) -- Show it (Betty Harris) (2:55) -- Four corners (Lee Dorsey) (2:51) -- You keep me hangin on (Bonnie and Sheila) (2:42) -- Yeah you're right, you...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEW

Bo, Eddie.

Contents: Baby -- We like mambo -- I found a little girl -- Something you got -- Gotta have more -- Fallin' in love again -- S.G.B. -- Souling -- Whats good to you : pt. 1 -- The la la man : pt. 1 -- Boogaloo mardi gras : pt. 1 -- Horse with a freeze : pt. 1 -- Timber : pts 1 & 2 -- Can I be your main squeeze -- I'm a carpenter : pt. 1 -- Garden of our trees -- Reborn -- Lover & friend -- Live it up --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vampisoul Records 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BO

Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Koontz, Robin Michal.

Summary: Presents an accounting of Hurricane Katrina from start to finish, including rescue efforts and survivor stories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What Koontz

Summary: New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PRI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD P

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED G

Summary: Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAD

Fieseler, Robert W.

Summary: A reconstruction of the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans' subterranean gay community describes how the Up Stairs Lounge and dozens of innocent patrons were targeted in what became a catalyzing event in the gay liberation movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FIE

Lane, Charles

Summary: Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where Negroes and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty Negroes who had occupied a courthouse. Now, journalist Charles Lane transforms this nearly forgotten incident into a historical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.367 LAN

Turner, Myra Faye

Summary: "When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges and her mother went to William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960, they arrived to find an angry crowd of white people shouting racist insults. For her safety, Ruby had to be escorted to school every day by U.S. Marshals. But despite the hateful attitudes of others, Ruby didn't miss a single day of school that year. Discover the incredible bravery of one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRI

Bailey, John

Summary: Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BAI

Lindahl, Carl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.434 LIN

Bailey, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.8 BAI

Feehan, Christine

Summary: "From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard shifter Remy Boudreaux has been served well by his uncanny gifts. And right now, New Orleans could use a homicide detective like Remy. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. But something else is drawing Remy into the twilight--a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEE

Wohl, Kit.

Summary: Stories about the restaurant's history and l60 recipes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican 2005

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Hardy, Jason Matthew

Summary: "A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.6 HAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.6 HAR

Ida

Contents: Capitaine Gumbo (3:35) -- Grand Basile (2:58) -- Mazuka (2:55) -- La Louisiane (2:58) -- P'tit fille O'Paradis (3:08) -- Madame Ben (2:33) -- Bayou polka (2:56) -- Corps solide (2:29) -- Frisco Zydeco (4:02) -- La vierge (2:57) -- La femme du Doight (3:08) -- Vieux Paris (3:39) -- C'est la vie (4:35).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICA QUE

Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CUR

Krist, Gary.

Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRI

Mitchell, Brian K.

Summary: "Depicted as a graphic history and informed by newly discovered primary sources and years of archival research, Monumental resurrects, in vivid detail, Louisiana and New Orleans after the Civil War, and an iconic American life that never should have been forgotten. The graphic history is supplemented with personal and historiographical essays as well as a map, timeline, and endnotes that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Historic New Orleans Collection 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.305 MIT

Bridges, Ruby

Summary: "When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRI

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