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Delirious New Orleans : Manifesto For An Extraordinary American City

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Stephen Verderber ; foreword by Kevin Alter
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, University of Texas Press, 2009
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Vernacular architecture · Louisiana · New Orleans · Outsider art · Urban renewal · City planning · Hurricane Katrina, 2005 · New Orleans (La.) · Buildings, structures, etc · Verderber, Stephen
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Trouble The Water

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Louverture Films presents ; an Elswhere Films production ; directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Publication Details
Video, Zeitgeist Films, 2009
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 · Personal narratives · Social aspects · Louisiana · New Orleans · Women rap musicians · New Orleans · Biography · African American women · Disaster victims · Video recordings for the hearing impaired · New Orleans (La.) · Social conditions · 21st century · Lessin, Tia · Deal, Carl · Roberts, Kimberly Rivers · Roberts, Scott · Louverture Films (Firm) · Elsewhere Films (Firm) · Zeitgeist Films
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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) HV636 2005 .N4 T76 2009 ON HOLDSHELF

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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN)	HV636 2005 .N4 T76 2009	ON HOLDSHELF

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Shake The Devil Off : A True Story Of The Murder That Rocked New Orleans

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Ethan Brown
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Book, 1st ed, Henry Holt and Co, 2009
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Bowen, Zackery · Murder · Louisiana · New Orleans · Case studies · Murder victims · Brown, Ethan, 1972-
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The Sweet Science And Other Writings

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A. J. Liebling
Publication Details
Book, Library of America, 2009
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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (1962) is a richly evocative memoir of Liebling?s introduction to Paris and its food and wine as a student in the late 1920s. The Press (1964) brings together the best of Liebling?s influential and insightful ?Wayward Press? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Long, Earl Kemp, · 1895-1960 · McDonald, James A., · 1874- · Amusements · New York (State) · New York · Boxing · History · Gastronomy · Newspaper publishing · United States · Press · Louisiana · Politics and government · 1951- · Paris (France) · Description and travel · Liebling, A. J. 1904-1963 · Hamill, Pete, 1935- · Liebling, A. J. 1904-1963
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3523.I278 A6 2009 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3523.I278 A6 2009	AVAILABLE

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Kamp Katrina

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Carnivalesque Productions
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Video, Carnivalesque Films, 2007
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Disaster victims · Louisiana · New Orleans · Hurricane Katrina, 2005 · Social aspects · New Orleans (La.) · Social life and customs · Redmon, David · Sabin, Ashley · Carnivalesque Films (Firm)
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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) HV636 2005.L8 K364 2006 AVAILABLE

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MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN)	HV636 2005.L8 K364 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Dirty Side Of The Storm

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Martha Serpas
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton & Co, 2007
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In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and its Cajun culture, Martha Serpas venerates a vanishing landscape defined by water?sensuous, fecund, and destructive. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Louisiana · Poetry · Serpas, Martha
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3619.E77 D57 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3619.E77 D57 2007	AVAILABLE

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Playing With The Enemy : A Baseball Prodigy, A World At War, And A Field Of Broken Dreams

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Gary W. Moore
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Book, Penguin books, 2008
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Part Tuesdays with Morrie, part Field of Dreams?a true American story of World War II and redemption Driven by word of mouth and the author?s heroic efforts to tell the world his father?s story, Playing with the Enemy was a surprise hardcover hit for its independent publisher. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Moore, Gene, · 1926-1983 · 1926-1983. · sears · U-505 (Submarine) · Baseball players · United States · Baseball · History · 20th century · Prisoners of war · Germany · Louisiana · Ruston · History. · Germany. · Sesser (Ill.) · Biography. · Moore, Gary W. 1954-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F546 .M66 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F546 .M66 2008	AVAILABLE

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City Adrift : New Orleans Before And After Katrina

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Jenni Bergal … [et al.] ; foreword by Dan Rather ; a Center for Public Integrity Investigation
Publication Details
Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2007
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At least 1,400 Louisianans died in Hurricane Katrina, more than half of them from New Orleans, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced, many still wondering if they will ever be able to return. In City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina, they present their findings. and Katy Reckdahl, an award-winning freelance journalist who gave birth to her son in a New Orleans hospital the day before Katrina hit. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States. · Federal Emergency Management Agency · Hurricane Katrina, 2005 · Disaster victims · Services for · Louisiana · New Orleans · Disaster relief · Crisis management in government · New Orleans (La.) · History · 21st century · Bergal, Jenni · Center for Public Integrity
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(LOWER LEVEL) HV636 2005 .N4 C58 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HV636 2005 .N4 C58 2007	AVAILABLE

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Vaudechamp In New Orleans

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by William Keyse Rudolph ; foreword by Priscilla Lawrence
Publication Details
Book, Historic New Orleans Collection, 2007
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Vaudechamp, Jean Joseph, · 1790-1866 · Portrait painters · Louisiana · New Orleans · Biography · Rudolph, William Keyse
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(UPPER LEVEL) ND1329.V36 R83 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	ND1329.V36 R83 2007	AVAILABLE

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Called Out Of Darkness : A Spiritual Confession

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by Anne Rice
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Book, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
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In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. She writes about her years in radical Berkeley, where her career as a novelist began with the publication of Interview with the Vampire, soon to be followed by more novels about otherworldly beings, about the realms of good and evil, love and alienation, pageantry and ritual, each reflecting aspects of her often agonizing moral quest. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Rice, Anne, · 1941- · Homes and haunts · Louisiana · New Orleans · Spiritual biography · United States · Women novelists, American · 20th century · Biography · Spiritual life · Catholic Church · Rice, Anne, 1941-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3568.I265 Z4626 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3568.I265 Z4626 2008	AVAILABLE

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A Trumpet Around The Corner : The Story Of New Orleans Jazz

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Samuel Charters
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Book, University Press of Mississippi, 2008
Description
A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. The book extends the study area of his earlier book Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1957, and breaks new ground with its in-depth discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Jazz · Louisiana · New Orleans · History and criticism · Jazz musicians · Charters, Samuel Barclay
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(UPPER LEVEL) ML3508.8.N48 C44 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	ML3508.8.N48 C44 2008	AVAILABLE

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Subversive Sounds : Race And The Birth Of Jazz In New Orleans

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Charles Hersch
Publication Details
Book, University of Chicago Press, 2007
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These encounters with other music and other races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played?a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Jazz · Louisiana · New Orleans · History and criticism · Music · Social aspects · History · Music and race · Hersch, Charles, 1956-
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(UPPER LEVEL) ML3508.8.N48 H47 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	ML3508.8.N48 H47 2007	AVAILABLE

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Cajuns And Their Acadian Ancestors : A Young Reader’s History

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Shane K. Bernard
Publication Details
Book, University Press of Mississippi, 2008
Description
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History includes numerous images and over a dozen sidebars on topics ranging from Cajun music to Mardi Gras. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Cajuns · Louisiana · History · Juvenile literature · Social life and customs · Ethnic identity · Acadians · Migrations · Bernard, Shane K
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 305.84 B518c 2008 AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	305.84 B518c 2008	AVAILABLE

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McIlhenny’s Gold : How A Louisiana Family Built The Tabasco Empire

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Jeffrey Rothfeder
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Collins, 2007
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Description
The story of the powerful McIlhennys of Louisiana, who turned hot peppers into a Tabasco fortune After the Civil War ended, Edmund McIlhenny, an ambitious and tenacious Louisiana businessman, found himself with few prospects. To this day, the McIlhenny Co., still run by a family of matchless characters who believe in a rigid code of family loyalty, clings to tradition and the old ways of doing business. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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McIlhenny Co. · History · Hot pepper sauce industry · Louisiana · Tabasco sauce · Rothfeder, Jeffrey
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(LOWER LEVEL) HD9330.S364 M457 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	HD9330.S364 M457 2007	AVAILABLE

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Katrinaville Chronicles : Images And Observations From A New Orleans Photographer

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David G. Spielman
Publication Details
Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2007
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Description
When Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, photographer David G. His arresting blackandwhite photographs record the details of the disaster on both a grand and an intimate scale, at times recalling works by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Henri CartierBresson. Living without electricity or running water and existing on peanut butter sandwiches, he nonetheless is able to appreciate the complete quiet and unadulterated starlight in a surreal city without power. Spielman is a fine art, commercial, and journalistic photographer whose images have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the London Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, and Architectural Digest. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Spielman, David G., · 1950- · Correspondence · Hurricane Katrina, 2005 · Pictorial works · Photographers · Louisiana · New Orleans · New Orleans (La.) · Social conditions · Description and travel · Spielman, David G., 1950-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F379.N543 S68 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F379.N543 S68 2007	AVAILABLE

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