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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
Julia Reed
Ecco
Ecco
Julia Reed went to New Orleans in 1991 to cover the reelection of former (and currently incarcerated) governor Edwin Edwards. Seduced by the city's sauntering pace, its rich flavors and exotic atmosphere, she was never entirely able to leave...
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Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
Gwen Roland
Louisiana State University Press
Louisiana State University Press
In the early 1970s, two idealistic young peopleGwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisindecided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisianas million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin...
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Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Scribner
Scribner
Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross...
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (World As Home, The)
Janisse Ray
Milkweed Editions
Milkweed Editions
The scrubby forests of southern Georgia, dotting a landscape of low hills and swampy bottoms, are not what many people would consider to be exalted country, the sort of place to inspire lyrical considerations of nature and culture. Yet that is...
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Heart in the Right Place
Carolyn Jourdan
Algonquin Books
Algonquin Books
Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home—to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and her mother works as his receptionist. Jourdan...
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See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America
Logan Ward
Benbella Books
Benbella Books
To save their marriage and their sanity, the author and his wife sold their belongings, packed up their two-year-old son, and moved to a rundown farmhouse in the country without any plans past surviving the year. Living as though it were the year...
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A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina
Ian McNulty
University Press of Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi
For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by the United States Army. Most of the city was without power. Emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches...
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