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Louisiana Breakdown

Author : Lucius Shepard

Publisher : Hachette UK

Page : 106 pages

File Size : 22,39 MB

Release : 2014-04-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 057509124X

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Jack Mustaine discovers Grail, Louisiana, when the BMW he "borrowed" to leave L.A. breaks down outside the town. The sheriff nearly scams him out of the car before Grail's top dog, Joe Dill, comes to the rescue. Then Dill brings Jack to Le Bon Chance saloon, where Jack starts wondering whether he was rescued. After luscious Vida Dumars takes him home, he starts doubting his sanity. Vida's a prodigious lay, and Jack thinks he's in love, but tomorrow is St. John's Eve, when the new Midsummer Queen will be chosen by the Good Gray Man, and outgoing MQ Vida has to pass the scepter to a 10-year-old. Plenty of people tell Jack to get Vida out of town beforehand, and he wants to, but . . .



Louisiana Breakdown

Author : Lucius Shepard

Publisher :

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 39,15 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Welcome to Grail, Louisiana -- next to nothing and just beyond reality -- where hoodoo meets Jesus, and townsfolk pray to both. This dark fantasy delves into the psychological and motivational depths of Grail and its residents. Miss Sedele mixes up green cocktails called 'cryptoverdes' at Le Bon Chance. Vida Dumars, owner of the Moonlight Diner, peers into the deepest realms of her customers' hearts as though they were picture windows. Town spirit Good Gray Man has promised good fortune to the town as long as it hangs onto tradition. A quirky, fantastical town's heart and soul are slowly, often painfully revealed in this dark and captivating novella.



Down in Louisiana

Author : Johnette Downing

Publisher : Pelican Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 29,93 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Children's poetry

ISBN : 9781589804517

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Book Description

A variety of Louisiana animals pursuing their daily activities introduce the numbers one through ten. Includes a page of music.



Louisiana Power and Light

Author : John Dufresne

Publisher : National Geographic Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 29,88 MB

Release : 2007-12-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0393330524

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A favorite novel by “a generous and lyric storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) known for his tragicomic voice and unforgettable characters. Billy Wayne is the sole survivor of his oddball line of marginal folk. When he acquires a priestly vocation it seems likely he will be the last Fontana, until hearing a young woman’s confession propels him into an impulsive marriage.



Way Down in Louisiana

Author : Todd Mouton

Publisher : University of Louisiana

Page : pages

File Size : 24,81 MB

Release : 2015-09

Category : Music

ISBN : 9781935754732

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Book Description

With Clifton Chenier's amazing life and career as the centerpiece, this collection of profiles gathered across two decades unites some of the world's most innovative creative forces.



The Twelve Days of Christmas in Louisiana

Author : Jean Cassels

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 45,1 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781402738142

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Book Description

Paul writes a letter home each of the twelve days he spends exploring Louisiana at Christmastime, as his cousin Rosalie shows him everything from a pelican in a cypress tree to twelve sparkly strands of Mardi Gras beads. Includes facts about Louisiana.



Louisiana Place Names

Author : Clare D'Artois Leeper

Publisher : LSU Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 46,24 MB

Release : 2012-10-19

Category : History

ISBN : 0807147397

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Book Description

From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mardi Gras Bayou in between, avid writer Clare D Artois Leeper offers her own alphabet of places in Louisiana, both past and present. Louisiana Place Names includes 893 entries that reveal Leeper s distinct view of the state s history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom result in an entertaining guide to Louisiana s place name lore.



Down in New Orleans

Author : Billy Sothern

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 29,6 MB

Release : 2007-08-27

Category : History

ISBN : 0520251490

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Book Description

Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in New Orleans four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story.



Louisiana Rocks!

Author : Tom Aswell

Publisher : Pelican Publishing

Page : 502 pages

File Size : 26,50 MB

Release : 2010-09-23

Category : Music

ISBN : 1455607835

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An in-depth history of rock and roll's Louisiana roots. Taking the position that rock and roll started in New Orleans in 1947 when Roy Brown recorded "Good Rockin' Tonight," Aswell provides an expansive history of this beloved American music form. By looking at the Louisianan influences of swamp pop, Cajun, zydeco, R&B, rockabilly, country, and blues music, the author explores the way these musical forms gave birth to rock and roll as we know it today.



Fish Town

Author : J. T. Blatty

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,59 MB

Release : 2018

Category : History

ISBN : 9781938086519

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"Fish Town preserves, through photography and oral history recordings, the cultural and environmental life of southeastern Louisiana's fishing communities. Because of the vanishing coastline, people who are multi-generaltions deep in their fishing traditions have watched their towns quietly slip toward extinction for decades, with few means of historic preservation. .. " -- Dust jacket flap.