Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Season Six, including unforgettable moments that shocked every fan. For Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride and his team at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, kidnappers, cults, traffickers, and murderers are business as usual. But with the tragic loss of one of their own, these agents suddenly find themselves driven by more than a duty; now it's personal. Will Pride stay loyal to the law, or will vengeance push him over the edge? Experience...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly...
64) The beautiful
Author
Series
Beautiful volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent in the middle of the carnival season, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its fancy soirées and even its danger. She becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The seventh season finds Pride and the team fighting for justice in their beloved city as New Orleans grapples with the effects of COVID-19. Pride, seeing how the pandemic has overwhelmed the system, finds creative ways to help his neighbors with the assistance of Rita Devereaux, and is asked by the Mayor to be a part of a special task force assigned to help make actual change in their city. Also, Wade is overwhelmed by the high volume in the morgue...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure's silence is filled with resonance-- a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, Bonaventure can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that...
69) Night Embrace
Author
Series
Dark-Hunter novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
As an ancient Celtic chief, Talon made one serious mistake-- he killed the son of the war god Camulus, and was cursed: everyone he loved would die a horrible death in front of his eyes. Now he is an immortal protector who keeps mankind safe from the creatures who would prey on us. During Mardi Gras he meets Sunshine, an offbeat artist who reminds him of what it is to live-- but can he save her... and himself?
70) Tennyson
Author
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2008
Language
English
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
Author
Series
American royalty (Grace Hitchcock) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A very public jilting has Theodore Day fleeing the ballrooms of New York to focus on building his family's luxury steamboat business in New Orleans and beating out his brother to be next in charge. But he can't escape the Southern belles' notice, nor Flora Wingfield, who has followed him determined to win his attention"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?"--
"If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Dwayne Cassius Pride leads an elite team of agents and specialists as they take on assassins, conspiracies, and mysteries years in the making, all while recruiting some new blood into the squad. Bring home every chilling mystery and thrilling moment as the NCIS upholds the law, defends honor, and faces their greatest challenges yet.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marie Laveau may be the most influential-and is among the most famous-American practitioner of the magical arts. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours. Her grave in New Orleans ranks among the most popular spiritual pilgrimages in the US. This book explores Laveau's life and work-the history and mystery. It gives an overview of New Orleans Voodoo, its origins, history, and practices. It contains spells,...
Author
Series
Heirloom secrets volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"More than a century apart, two women search for the lost. Despite her family's confederate leanings, Clara is determined to help an enslaved woman reunite with her daughter; Alice can't stop wondering what happened to her mother in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Faced with the unknown, both women will have to dig deep to let their courage bloom"--
Author
Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
While protecting the Master of New Orleans from a greedy delegation of European vampires, Jane Yellowrock must find and destroy a brutal creature stalking the streets of New Orleans, leaving a trail of blood and carnage in its wake.
80) Ruined: A Novel
Author
Series
Haunted city series volume 1
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
When her father goes away on a business trip, Rebecca is sent to post-Katrina New Orleans to stay with her aunt. Ignored by the snooty girls at her new prep school, Rebecca finds friendship with Lisette, a ghost in the famous Lafayette Cemetery. Through Lisette and new friend Anton, Rebecca learns more about the past and present of New Orleans, and uncovers startling truths about her own history. Suggested level: secondary.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request