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Crown Journeys seriesRich, Nathaniel
Summary: New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation's. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans's faded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICRoahen, Sara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2097 ROASchindler, Henri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 394.25 SCHBlount, Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Journeys 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 BLOReed, Julia.
Summary: A journalist and resident of New Orleans describes her relocation to the city and work as a reporter, recounting her purchase of a Garden District home just prior to Hurricane Katrina and her shared efforts with locals to recover and rebuild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.63 REEBaum, Dan.
Summary: "Nine Lives" explores New Orleans through the lives of nine characters over 40 years, bracketed by two epic hurricanes. It brings back to life the doomed city, its wondrous subcultures, and the rich and colorful lives that played themselves out within its borders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 BAUPiazza, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.335 PIAWeatherford, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2016