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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Hardcover)

By Lawrence N. Powell
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780674059870
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Published: Harvard University Press, 3/2012
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There's One In Your Neighborhood: The Lost Movie Theaters of New Orleans by Rene Brunet and Jack Stewart

There's One In Your Neighborhood: The Lost Movie Theaters of New Orleans by Rene Brunet and Jack Stewart

$25.95
Model: 9780930892395

A COMPANY MAN: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies a memoir by Marc-Antoine Caillot • edited by Erin M. Greenwald • translated by Teri F. Chalmers published by The Historic New Orleans Collection

A COMPANY MAN: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies a memoir by Marc-Antoine Caillot • edited by Erin M. Greenwald • translated by Teri F. Chalmers published by The Historic New Orleans Collection

$40.00
Model: 9780917860614

Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Paperback)

By Richard Campanella
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781887366854
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Published: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 10/2008

Song for my Fathers (Paperback)

By Tom Sancton
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781590513767
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Published: Other Press, 4/2010
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Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House (Hardcover)

By Carolyn Morrow Long
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780813038063
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Published: University Press of Florida, 3/2012

Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans (Paperback)

By Dan Baum
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780385523202
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Published: Spiegel & Grau, 2/2010
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Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics before the Storm (Hardcover)

By Richard Campanella
$49.50
ISBN-13: 9781887366687
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Published: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 10/2006

Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans! (Paperback)

By John Churchill Chase
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781565549319
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Published: Pelican Publishing Company, 10/2001
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Why New Orleans Matters (Paperback)

By Tom Piazza
$10.95
ISBN-13: 9780061131509
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Published: Harper Perennial, 9/2008
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The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn (Hardcover)

By Delia LaBarre, Daily City Item
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780807132432
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Published: Louisiana State University Press, 5/2007
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Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (Paperback)

By Lafcadio Hearn, S. Frederick Starr
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781578063536
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Published: University Press of Mississippi, 6/2001
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Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast (Paperback)

By Mike Tidwell
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780375725173
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Published: Vintage, 3/2004
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