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Lost boy found :a novel by Alexander, Kirsten,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large rewards and struggle not to give in to despair. Then, at the moment when all hope seems lost, the boy is found in the company of a tramp. But is he truly Sonny Davenport? The circumstances of his discovery raise more questions than answers. And when Grace Mill, an unwed farm worker, travels from Alabama to lay claim to the child, newspapers, townsfolk, even the Davenports' own friends, take sides. As the tramp's kidnapping trial begins, and two desperate mothers fight for ownership of the boy, the people of Opelousas discover that truth is more complicated than they'd ever dreamed ...
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Missing children; Mother and child; Families;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Neon prey / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.;
"Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer ... Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating for years without notice. His quarry is ruthless, and--as Davenport will come to find--full of surprises"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Organized crime;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The house at Watch Hill : a novel / by Moning, Karen Marie,author.;
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill--but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers. Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper. Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd ... What Zo doesn't yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn't quite comprehend--or risk being consumed by them. --
Subjects: Witch fiction.; Vampire fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Grief; Inheritance and succession; Magic; Mansions; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Vampires; Witches;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rebel / by Jenkins, Beverly,1951-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; Architects; Man-woman relationships; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Flags on the bayou : a novel / by Burke, James Lee,1936-author.;
"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed --and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Civil war; Enslaved persons; Fugitive slaves; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Slavery;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Flags on the bayou [sound recording] : a novel / by Burke, James Lee,1936-author.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by James Lee Burke, MacLeod Andrews, Michael Crouch, Dana Gourrier, Marin Ireland, January LaVoy, Ray Porter."In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed --and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah."--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Civil war; Enslaved persons; Fugitive slaves; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Two for Texas [sound recording] / by Burke, James Lee,1936-; Patton, Will.;
Read by Will Patton.Son Holland and Hugh Allison escape from a Louisiana prison and join in the Texas revolution of 1835-36.
Subjects: War stories.; Western stories.; Audiobooks.; Fugitives from justice;
© p2012., Simon & Schuster Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wayfaring stranger [sound recording] / by Burke, James Lee,1936-; Patton, Will.;
Read by Will Patton.A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Antisemitism; Audiobooks.; Jewish women; Oil industries;
© p2014., Simon & Schuster Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The second life of Mirielle West / by Skenandore, Amanda,author.;
In this thought-provoking and sensitive novel, inspired by the true story of a Louisiana leprosy hospital where patients were forcibly quarantined, acclaimed author Amanda Skenandore tells an extraordinarily timely tale of resilience, hope, and the last woman who expected to find herself in such a place.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Medical fiction.; Leprosy; Quarantine;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Happy [videorecording] / by Belic, Roko.; Shimizu, Eiji Han.; Reid, Frances.; Hillgrove, Vivien.; Adler, Mark.; Shimoff, Marci.; Shady Acres (Firm); Wadi Rum Productions.; Emotional Content.; Iris Films/Iris Feminist Collective.; Creative Vision (Firm);
Cinematographers, Roko Belic ... [and others] ; editors, Vivien Hillgrove, Roko Belic ; music, Mark Adler.Narrator, Marci Shimoff.Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. Combining real life stories of people from around the world and interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research, Happy explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion.E.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Happiness.; Joy.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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