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81) Cane River
Author
Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
Author
Series
Night watch (Cynthia Eden) volume 2
Publisher
Brava
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The last thing Baton Rouge paranormal hunter Sandra "Dee" Daniels needs as she prepares to face down a powerful vampire is the arrival of Simon Chase, a sexy shadow with a haunted past who kindles a desire in her she has never known before--and who knowsa secret that will change Dee's life.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Protecting a terrified young woman who has witnessed a crime in 1942 Texas, Ranger Virgil Tucker is drawn into the dangerous world of the New Orleans mafia when the murder of a prominent attorney reveals a takeover plot against Galveston's gambling empire.
84) Sunset limited
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux ventures into Louisiana's bayou country on a case involving racial violence and class warfare
85) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 4
Publisher
ZondervanPub.House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The fourth and final book in the best-selling Newpointe 911 series. Nick Foster's church burns to the ground, and a body is found shot in the rubble. What does Issie Mattreaux, the bad girl of Newpointe, know about the murder?
86) Half of paradise
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Meet Avery Broussard, the last in a line of once-substantial land owners whose weakness for alcohol lands him in prison; J.P. Winfield, a dirt-poor singer who makes it to the top of hillbilly music only to be destroyed by drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who is set up for a crime he didn't commit. How the three men struggle to escape the bondage that links them makes for a tale of atmosphere and suspense in Burke's first...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation. Highlights the treatment of marital infidelity and an illicit relationship.
88) The boy
Author
Series
Broussard and Fourcade novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
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...
89) Justice for Sara
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
cp2013.
Language
English
Description
When rebellious seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her sister, Sara, viciously murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect, charged and tried -- and found innocent. But not everyone agreed with the verdict, and Kat's only choice was to go into hiding. She left her hometown behind, but she carried a dark secret with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had something...
90) The heavens rise
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred ... and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction ... and who alone knows the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"The charming and uncertain journalist is delighted with her decision to keep The Green News-Item and excited about the possibility of romance with her good-looking catfish farmer/coach neighbor--and the growth of her fresh faith and friendships. Her second year in Green has scarcely been rung in, though, before Lois is wrung out. The former owners of the paper want it back. The mayor's dog bites her on the face. A series of fires threatens Lois....
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dave Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song on his iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of her, but finds instead the frozen corpse of her sister floating...
93) The legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Indigo's opera house was a gift from Alexandre Valois to his wife long before the Civil War. Marjo Savoy, head of the opera house committee, is determined that the historic building will never be sold. Paul Clermont, the current owner, has no interest in holding on to the property he's inherited. A photojournalist who spends his live on the road, he values his freedom too much to be burdened by real estate. But something keeps drawing him back: the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in this second novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana police detective Dave Robicheaux senses from the very start of the investigation that the most likely suspect -- Tee Bobby Hulin -- is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin doesn't fit the profile for this brutal crime. But when another body turns up -- a drugged-out prostitute who is the daughter of a local...
96) Seed
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
With nothing but the clothes on his back and something horrific snapping at his heels Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a truckers rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright new future he's built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead. When Jack, his wife Aimee, and their...
97) Cypress Nights
Author
Series
Bayou books (Stella Cameron) volume 10
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a man is killed in St. Cecil's church, panic spreads. More murders follow, and the victims are all significant contributors to the church's new school. With little help from the FBI, the local sheriff and the townspeople are left to fend for themselves. Taking the lead, psychiatrist Roche Savage and St. Cecil schoolteacher Bleu Labeau race to unravel the mystery before another person is forced to have the school pamphlet as their last meal. But...
98) Going once
Author
Series
Forces of nature (Sharon Sala) volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"As raging floodwaters engulf her Louisiana hometown Nola Landry is stranded on high ground, the unwitting witness to the brutal murder of three fellow survivors. Finally rescued in the aftermath of the storm, no one is willing to believe a story as horrific as hers-until three FBI agents arrive on the scene...one of whom Nola knows very well. Tate Benton has been tracking the so-called Stormchaser serial killer for months, never expecting the trail...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the nightmares of a grieving parent, she soon realizes. They...
100) Rivers west
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeying westward from his native Quebec, Jean Talon "stumbles upon a deadly conspiracy involving a young woman's search for her missing brother and a ruthless band of renegades" who want to take over the Louisiana Territory and turn it into an independent nation. Can Jean stop them and also realize his dream of becoming a builder of frontier steamboats?
Jean Talon strikes out at a man who intends to make the Louisiana Purchase his personal kingdom.
His...
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