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True bookMontana-Leblanc, Phyllis.
Summary: Hurricane Katrina survivor LeBlanc--featured in Spike Lee's acclaimed HBO documentary "When the Levees Broke"--offers an astounding and poignant account of her struggle to survive one of the nation's worst disasters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 MONSummary: New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TREGratz, Roberta Brandes
Summary: "[Katrina] completely transformed one of the most beloved cities in America, leaving nearly 80 percent of New Orleans flooded and damaging 134,000 housing units, causing unprecedented destruction. The response to Katrina is a topic of unending debate and anger ... Watching coverage of the hurricane on television in 2005 ... Roberta Brandes Gratz knew that the best chance for the city's recovery...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 GRAGoodman, John
Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: "This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 363.34 TROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROEggers, Dave.
Summary: Describes how Abdulrahman Zeitoun remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent efforts to help other victims, his disappearance a week later, and the effect of these events on his wife Kathy and their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.335 EGGSummary: Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TREClark, Joshua
Summary: Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims, not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 CLAThompson, Neal.
Summary: Traces the story of the John Curtis Patriots high school football team and their comeback efforts after the devastation of hurricane Katrina, in an account that documents the role played by their coach, their faith, and their surrounding community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster/Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.332 THOGran, Sara.
Summary: Augmenting her brilliant deductive skills with dream analysis, marijuana, and the written work of a mysterious French detective, private investigator Claire DeWitt reluctantly returns to post-Katrina New Orleans to solve the disappearance of an unpopularprosecutor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABenoit, Peter
Summary: Recounts the events of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it caused in New Orleans, discusses the global efforts to help the victims, and describes the rebuilding efforts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012