Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s." "A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused...
Author
Series
Ya-Yas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Walker clan, Vivi and Big Shep; their children Sidda, Little Shep, Lulu, and Baylor; Vivi's long-time girlfriends the Ya-Yas; and neighbors Cheney and Willetta, live out their lives in flamboyant and secretive style in the bayou of Thornton, Louisiana.
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Stan Shepherd lies comatose in the hospital, a victim of arsenic poisoning. The Newpointe police have a suspect: Celia Shepherd, Stan's wife. Celia is no stranger to such charges. When her first husband died of poisoning, a technicality scuttled the case. It looks like the same story -- only this time, the motive seems plain: Celia's old flame has come to town. But attorney Jill Clark thinks the puzzle pieces fit together too neatly. Either...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dave Robicheaux is dried out, back on the force and remarried. When the ghost of a long-dead Confederate general begins to haunt his latest murder case, Dave's new found peace is threatened with mayhem and madness.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
A bullet through a windowpane brings Robicheaux back in contact with the Sonnier family, childhood friends whose morality is scarred by a history of abuse. Welton, once a pilot for the CIA-backed Air America; Lyle, a television evangelist; and Drew, a girl-woman with a bitter past, form an extraordinarily close-knit family whose guarded secrets make it impossible for Robicheaux to protect them.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, 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 the iPod that she kindly left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of his Creole belle,...
9) Cry wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The scream heard by no one is the deadliest. In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing one by one, only to turn up on the banks of the bayou, strangled and cast aside where they are sure to be found. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced forever.... Attorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. That once-burning obsession had...
10) Burning angel
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family in Louisiana, descendants of black sharecroppers, is being forced off its land by a shady group of developers. The land is said to contain gold. Dave Robicheaux, the local policeman, rises to the defense of the weak, risking his life in the process.
11) Robicheaux
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
12) Plain Jane
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to forget the brutal attack that ended a former classmate's life, Dr. Jane Lewis, a successful psychotherapist, is suddenly presented with clues to solve the murder while embarking on a new romance with Michael Sorenson.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1998?], c1965
Language
English
Description
Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life-but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the crime. Mapes finds himself powerless, however, when nearly 20 elderly black men confess to the murder. Can justice be served, or will the dead man's brutish father pass judgment his way?
15) Ruby
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
growing up in the heart of Cajun country, the only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving ghuardian Jack, a drunken outcast who lives alone in a shack in the swamp.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"For Sissy LeBlanc, 14 years is long enough to wait for something to happen. She's been married to Peewee, since she was barely 17. Now she wants to give life a shove and a shake, to smack it like a pinball machine. She just wants an adventure. God knows she needs one. When she married Peewee, she$1 (Bd promised to be a good and faithful wife. Of course it hadn$1 (Bt been hard to resist temptation, there hadn$1 (Bt been any, but now... Parker Davidson,...
17) Lucky's lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Serena Sheridan hires Lucky Doucet, a reclusive man from Louisiana bayou country, to help her search for her missing grandfather and finds herself reluctantly drawn to Lucky's rugged ways.
Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 7
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery volume 7
Southern vampire novel volume 7
Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery volume 7
Southern vampire novel volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit.
Author
Series
Ghost-in-law mystery romance volume 4
Language
English
Description
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jana DeLeon, RESURRECTION IN MUDBUG, aka The Return of Helena Henry! Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the bayou... Jadyn St. James is excited to start her job as game warden in Mudbug, Louisiana, and hopes it is the beginning of a new and improved life. She expected to run across any number of odd occurrences in the small bayou town, but she never thought her life would be in danger...
20) The Cajun cowboy
Author
Series
Cajun contemporary romances volume 3
Publisher
Warner Forever
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On the run from a loan shark, beauty salon owner Charmaine LeDeux discovers that her she's still married to her ex-husband and they inherited a rundown ranch.