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| Author | : Joshua Clark |
| Publisher | : Light of New Orleans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Beautiful, poignant, tragic, and comic, this collection of works by preeminent writers--John Biguenet, Poppy Z. Brite, Robert Olen Butler, Tennessee Williams, and others--explores the mysterious heart of New Orleans.
| Author | : Stella Cameron |
| Publisher | : Zebra Books |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780821762516 |
A romance between Celina Payne, a former Miss Louisiana and Jack Charbonnet, owner of a riverboat casino. They collaborate to run Dreams, a charity which funds the wishes of dying children. A dangerous business as someone is trying to scuttle it, having already murdered the charity's founder.
| Author | : Ted O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Akashic Books |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2007-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1936070391 |
This original anthology of noir fiction set across the Big Easy includes new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Maureen Tan, and more. New Orleans has always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, and the heartless con artist. And in post-Katrina times, it’s the same old story—only with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. In other words, it’s fertile ground for noir fiction. This sparkling collection of tales, set both before and after the storm, explores the city’s gutted neighborhoods, its outwardly gleaming “sliver by the river,” its still-raunchy French Quarter, and other hoods so far from the Quarter they might as well be on another continent. It also looks back into the city’s darkly colorful, nineteenth century past. New Orleans Noir includes brand-new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Patty Friedmann, Barbara Hambly, Tim McLoughlin, Olympia Vernon, David Fulmer, Jervey Tervalon, James Nolan, Kalamu ya Salaam, Maureen Tan, Thomas Adcock, Jeri Cain Rossi, Christine Wiltz, Greg Herren, Julie Smith, Eric Overmyer, and Ted O’Brien. A portion of the profits from New Orleans Noir will be donated to Katrina KARES, a hurricane relief program sponsored by the New Orleans Institute that awards grants to writers affected by the hurricane.
| Author | : Josh Neufeld |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 0307378144 |
Presents the stories of seven survivors of Hurricane Katrina who tried to evacuate, protect their possessions, and save loved ones before, during, and after the flood.
| Author | : Scott S. Ellis |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2010-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1628469587 |
Celebrated in media and myth, New Orleans's French Quarter (Vieux Carré) was the original settlement of what became the city of New Orleans. In Madame Vieux Carré, Scott S. Ellis presents the social and political history of this famous district as it evolved from 1900 through the beginning of the twenty-first century. From the immigrants of the 1910s, to the preservationists of the 1930s, to the nightclub workers and owners of the 1950s and the urban revivalists of the 1990s, Madame Vieux Carré examines the many different people who have called the Quarter home, who have defined its character, and who have fought to keep it from being overwhelmed by tourism's neon and kitsch. The old French village took on different roles—bastion of the French Creoles, Italian immigrant slum, honky-tonk enclave, literary incubator, working-class community, and tourist playground. The Quarter has been a place of refuge for various groups before they became mainstream Americans. Although the Vieux Carré has been marketed as a free-wheeling, boozy tourist concept, it exists on many levels for many groups, some with competing agendas. Madame Vieux Carré looks, with unromanticized frankness, at these groups, their intentions, and the future of the South's most historic and famous neighborhood. The author, a former Quarter resident, combines five years of research, personal experience, and unique interviews to weave an eminently readable history of one of America's favorite neighborhoods.
| Author | : Herbert Asbury |
| Publisher | : Mockingbird Books |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1981-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780891760283 |
"Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which indexed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans' infamous red light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But New Orleans' underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the U.S., and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The French Quarter, Herbert Asbury details the immense underbelly of "The Big Easy," from the murderous exploits of Mary Jane "Bricktop" Jackson and Bridget Fury, two notorious prostitutes whose fits of violent rage were legendary, to the revolutionary "filibusters;" soldiers-of-fortune, who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support, (but without governmental approval) undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Ruta Sepetys |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2014-03-04 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0147508436 |
“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”--Entertainment Weekly It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test. With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets, lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.
| Author | : Matthew Randazzo V |
| Publisher | : Mrv Entertainment LLC |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2014-06-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692237489 |
Wiseguys called him "the Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as "one of the most notorious vice operators in the history of New Orleans" ... but you can just call him MR. NEW ORLEANS. Mr. New Orleans tells the incredible story of Frenchy Brouillette, a redneck Cajun teenager who stole his big brother's motorcycle and embarked on a 60-year vacation to New Orleans, where he became a legendary gangster and the underworld political fixer for his cousin, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards. Written by Crescent City native Matthew Randazzo V, the wickedly funny Mr. New Orleans is the first book to ever break the code of secrecy of the New Orleans Mafia Family, the oldest and most mysterious criminal secret society in America. "Mr. New Orleans is a rollicking, disturbing ride through the underbelly of a bygone New Orleans, lined with moments of dark, side-splitting hilarity. If you're a fan of James Lee Burke, drop what you're reading and pick this one up. In an era when popular wisdom tells us T.V. has stolen all depth from the literary true-crime narrative, Matthew Randazzo has found a way to beat that trend mightily; he's gone straight to the source and captured the singular, confounding voice of the New Orleans' mafia's top political fixer with fast-paced, riveting prose and a fine journalist's eye for detail." Chris Rice, New York Times Bestselling Author "Mr. New Orleans is a total knockout: Take everything you ever imagined about the sleazy good times to be had in New Orleans -- the sleazy good times capital of America -- and quadruple it, and you have a hint of what's inside these sticky pages." Bill Tonelli, Author of The Italian American Reader and Editor for Esquire and Rolling Stone
| Author | : Dalt Wonk |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780989609579 |
| Author | : Stephanie Osborn |
| Publisher | : Displaced Detective |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2016-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781606192023 |
Fear in the French Quarter, Stephanie Osborn's Displaced Detective series book 6, involves a jaunt by Sherlock Holmes and his wife, the world- class hyperspatial physicist Dr. Skye Chadwick- Holmes, to New Orleans. There, they investigate ghostly apparitions, strange disappearances, and challenge threats to the very universe they call home.
