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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...
3) Swamp Santa
Author
Series
Publisher
Jana DeLeon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer. But with no client and no reason to interfere with a police investigation, it looks as if Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie will have to sit this one out.Big and Little Hebert might be criminals,...
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
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.
7) Cry wolf
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jana DeLeon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It’s Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand, but when a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t help but wonder what happened. As they start looking into the woman and the family in Sinful she came to visit, their investigation sends them to New Orleans, right at the height of the Mardi Gras celebration. But instead of relaxing a little and enjoying...
9) 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...
10) Boys like you
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.
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,...
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.
14) Plain Jane
Author
Language
English
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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.
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
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
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...
18) 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miranda Miller has a husband, a child, and a fulfilling job at a Manhattan museum. She also has a mysterious past. She was sent away from her childhood home on the bayou at the age of five following a tragedy that cut her off from her family. After being summoned to her grandparents' antebellum estate by the caretaker, Miranda plunges into a nightmare of buried secrets, unknown enemies, priceless treasures, and an all-consuming quest for a heart...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Louisiana. 1969. Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. Frank, a black high school football player, protects his family with a secret. And Evelyn, an experienced teacher and prominent member of the local black community, must decide whether she is willing to place trust in her new white colleague. Told alternatively...