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81) The awakening
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...
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Ghost-in-law volume 5
Pub. Date
2013
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"After an eventful first week on the job, game warden Jadyn St. James is happy the small bayou town of Mudbug, Louisiana, seems to have fallen back into its normal routine. But when FBI agent Raissa Boudeaux is kidnapped, Jadyn is certain the short-lived peace has come to an abrupt end. Statistics don't lie, and Jadyn knows the longer Riassa remains missing the less likely she'll be found alive"--P. [4] of cover.
83) Honey Bea
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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
On a Louisiana sugar plantation, a young slave girl struggles with the magical powers that have been passed down from her grandmother and mother to her, unsure of the responsibilities and consequences that accompany this power.
84) The 9th man
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Luke Daniels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides - one...
85) A thin dark line
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Broussard and Fourcade novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
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Terror stalks the streets of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana. A suspected murderer is free on a technicality, and the cop accused of planting evidence against him is ordered off the case. But Detective Nick Fourcade refuses to walk away. He’s stepped over the line before. This case threatens to push him over the edge.
He’s not the only one. Deputy Annie Broussard found the woman’s mutilated body. She still hears the phantom echoes of...
He’s not the only one. Deputy Annie Broussard found the woman’s mutilated body. She still hears the phantom echoes of...
86) Countdown
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Eve Duncan novels volume 6
Description
Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started.
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Maryse Roicheaux can't help heaving a sigh of relief at the news that her not-so-beloved mother-in-law has kicked the busket. The woman was rude, manipulative and loved lording over everyone as the richest citizen of Mudbug, Louisiana. Unfortunately, death doesn't slow Helena Henry down one bit. Being haunted--or more like harried-- by Helena's ghost isn't even the worst of Maryse's problems. Close to making a huge medical breakthrouhg, she's suddenly...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to...
89) Cane River
Author
Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Cane River is an epic novel about the strength and determination of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana
90) Ghost walk
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The manager of a New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki DuMonde finds herself in the middle of this tale of paranormal visitations, nightmares, and murder.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 15
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Detective Dave Robicheaux is facing the most painful and dangerous case of his career. A troubled young woman breezes into his hometown of New Iberia, Louisiana. She happens to be the daughter of Robicheaux's onetime best friend--a friend he witnessed gunned down in a bank robbery, a tragedy that forever changed Robicheaux's life. The twists begin when Trish Klein--the only offspring of Robicheaux's Vietnam-era buddy--starts passing marked hundred-dollar...
92) The missing
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Pub. Date
2009
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Description
After the devastation in France just as World War I, Sam Simoneaux went back to New Orleans eager for a normal life. But when a little girl disappears from a department store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous...
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Quick response research report volume 162
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Several communities along the Gulf Coast are especially vulnerable to tropical storms, hurricanes, and flood hazards. 149 households afflicted in Slidell communities participated in a survey designed to assess the impacts of TSA.
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"Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money. Because he always seems to pick the perfect targets, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie think he must be either a Sinful resident or someone with a close association to the town. Playing with emotions for pay is dirty pool, but the game turns deadly when one of the women is murdered. Fortune decides the victim must...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. All her friends are coming to her party, her mama is making a big cake with blue icing and she has a good feeling about a certain wrapped box. Ten years old is a big deal to Armani. It means she's older, wiser, more responsible. But when Hurricane Katrina hits the Lower Nines of New Orleans and tears her world apart, Armani realizes that being ten means being brave, watching loved...
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Appears on list
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Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want - two wonderful sons, a husband, and good financial fortune. But still, she feels like something may be missing. While vacationing with her family, she meets a young man who shows affection and opens her mind to adventure and freedom.
Edna’s desire for freedom and independence begins to fester in her heart, and she finds that she is increasingly disenchanted with the responsibilities...
97) Nightwork
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"Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention--or get attached. Still, he...
98) Swan Peak
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Detective Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell are at an old friend's ranch in Montana, enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered in the hills behind the ranch. They find themselves involved in a twisted and dangerous mystery. At the center of the storm is Clete, who cannot shake the feeling that he is being haunted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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When eleven-year-old Don Schidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana, and goes from outcst to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
100) The boy
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Broussard and Fourcade novels volume 2
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When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, P.J., has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no evidence of forced entry, not a clue that points to...