The Best of New Orleans-fact and fiction
Explore the best books about New Orleans, blending fact and fiction. Discover captivating novels and insightful reads that bring the vibrant culture and history of NOLA to life.
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New Orleans
by Carol Flake
Describes the preparations for Carnival and portrays the city's different ethnic groups, social hierarchies, and political divisions
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This Dark Paradise
by Wendy Haley
The Danilovs of Savannah, Georgia, have few rivals when it comes to wealth, power, and prestige. But many secrets dwell in their secluded family estate--where …
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Madeleine's Ghost
by Robert Girardi
Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for …
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A Free Man of Color
by Barbara Hambly
A lush and haunting novel of a city steeped in decadent pleasures . . . and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a …
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Fever Season
by Barbara Hambly
Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and mystery. Now he returns …
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Voodoo Dreams
by Jewell P. Rhodes
The story of Marie Laveau, a legendary nineteenth-century New Orleans voodoo queen.
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The Feast of All Saints
by Anne Rice
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended …
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The Crow: The Lazarus Heart
by Poppy Z. Brite
As S&M photographer Jared Poe waits on Louisiana's Death Row to be executed for the murder of his lover, he can not imagine that his …
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Lost Souls
by Poppy Brite
Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major …
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Lafitte the Pirate
by Lyle Saxon
Jean Lafitte, the famous buccaneer, terrorized the Gulf of Mexico during the early 1800s from his hidden base in Louisiana's swamps at Barataria Bay. His …
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Drawing Blood
by Poppy Brite
Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Trevor McGee returns to confront the past, and finds himself …
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Shadows on the Bayou
by Patricia Vaughn
Beautiful Sylvia Dupont had one destiny--to become the mistress of a rich Creole gentleman. She was willing to accept her fate until the irresistible Justin …
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Papa La-Bas
by John Dickson Carr
The scene in Papa La-Bas is New Orleans in 1858. There, strong men, lovely women, dark magic and violence swirl around Senator Judah P. Benjamin, …
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Fabulous New Orleans
by Lyle Saxon
Reprint. Originally published: New Orleans: R.L. Crager, 1950.
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Exquisite Corpse
by Poppy Z. Brite
From the acclaimed author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes the provocative and thrilling serial killer novel that #1 New York Times bestselling …