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  Jinx: Book 3

  Wild Jinx

  by Sandra Hill

  In the third book of her hot and hilarious series, "New York Times" bestselling author Sandra Hill takes readers along on another wild ride with Jinx, Inc., where trouble is no match for a cagey Cajun matchmaker--and passion conquers all. When reporter Celine Arseneaux entered The Playpen, a Baton Rouge club for men AND women, she never expected John LeDeux to swagger up to her. Sure, the bayou's notorious bad... (more)
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  Robicheaux: Book 5

  A Stained White Radiance

  by James Lee Burke

  Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia--their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past, as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou. An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his... (more)
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  Three Little Cajun Pigs

  by Mike Artell

  Trosclair, Thibodeaux, and Ulysse are three pigs with a whole lot to do. Their mom has just kicked them out of the house and it’s time they make their own way and start constructing new homes in the heart of the swamp. When ol’ Claude the gator comes sneaking along, however, the three brothers are forced to question their choice of construction materials! This hilarious tale from the creators of the popular ... (more)
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  Cajun: Book 1

  The Love Potion

  by Sandra Hill

  What if a chemist invented a real love potion? What if the elixir were put in jelly beans? What if a man...the wrong man...ate the jelly beans? Dr. Sylvie Fontaine...chemist extraordinaire. Lucien LeDeux..."The Swamp Solicitor," aka "Bay Boy of the Bayou." Holy Crawfish! The South might indeed rise again... If the rebels could just stop laughing.
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  Petite Rouge (Picture Puffins)

  by Mike Artell

  When her grand-mère comes down wit' de flu, this Cajun Little Red knows what she has to do. With her witty cat, TeJean, she sets off in a pirogue to bring Grand-mère some gumbo. Who should she meet upon the way, but that big ol' swamp gator, Claude! Mean ol' Claude may want to gobble up Petite Rouge, but she and TeJean have a better idea. Before long, they have Claude running back to the bayou where he belongs!... (more)
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  The Maker's Song: Book 1

  A Rush of Wings

  by Adrian Phoenix

  HIS NAME IS DANTE. Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination. HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY. F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the... (more)
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  Robicheaux: Book 3

  Black Cherry Blues

  by James Lee Burke

  Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl... From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.
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  Robicheaux: Book 8

  Burning Angel

  by James Lee Burke

  Helping the Fontenot family of sharecroppers from being forced away from their longtime home, detective Dave Robicheaux discovers a link between the eviction and the murder of a New Orleans fixer's girlfriend. Reprint. Tour. PW.
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  Nightcreature: Book 4

  Crescent Moon

  by Lori Handeland

  New Orleans is known for sinful pleasures and strange magic, but for cryptozoologist Diana Malone it offers one irresistible attraction. For over a hundred years there have been whispers of wolves around the Crescent City, and the recent discovery of bodies in the nearby swamps hints at a creature even more dangerous…one that could make Diana’s career and fortune, if she lives to capture it. Adam Ruelle is a... (more)
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  Meely LaBauve

  by Ken Wells

  Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. Not since Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi has there been a coming-of-age story like this, told in such an utterly authentic unlettered American voice. From a charming encounter with first love in the Canciennes' corn patch to an adventurous paddle through wild and timeless places little explored, Ken Wells has cooked up a... (more)
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  The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

  by Shane K. Bernard

  History -- Southern Studies--> The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when... (more)
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  Robicheaux: Book 2

  Heaven's Prisoners

  by James Lee Burke

  Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since... (more)
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  The Bayou Trilogy

  The Bayou Trilogy

  Under the Bright Lights / Muscle for the Wing / The Ones You Do

  by Daniel Woodrell

  In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different... (more)
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  Bobbie Faye: Book 2

  Girls Just Wanna Have Guns: A Bobbie Faye Novel (Bobbie Faye)

  by Toni McGee Causey

  Praise for Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day “Causey doesn't miss a beat in this wonderful, wacky celebration of Southern eccentricity.”-- Publisher’s Weekly, starred review “It's about time women had an Amazon to look up to… Bobbie Faye is a hurricane-force heroine who makes this novel the perfect adventure yarn.”-- The Tampa Tribune “If you like Janet Evanovich, if you're looking for a lot... (more)
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  Talk About Good

  by Louisiana Lafayette Junior League, LA. Junior League of Lafayette

  This cookbook takes you on a journey throuh south Louisiana's traditions, cultural heritage and the culinary artisries of Cajun food. It is in it's 23rd printng with over 70,000 copies sold. Winner of McIlhenny Hall of Fame Award.
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  Cendrillon: A Cajun Cinderella

  by Sheila Hébert-Collins

  A Cajun variant of the Cinderella tale set in New Orleans and including French words and phrases which are defined on the bottom of each page.
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  River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine

  by Junior League of Baton Rouge

  River Road Recipes is the nation's #1 best-selling community cookbook series. This cookbook features classic creole and cajun cuisine. These 650 recipes include the basics like "how to make a roux". This is the "Textbook of Louisiana cooking".
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  Crawfish Mountain: A Novel

  by Ken Wells

  Ken Wells’s highly acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou novels introduced “one of the most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade” ( Los Angeles Times ). Now Wells is back, writing about his favorite subject–the exotic, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a sharp, rollicking tale of corporate corruption and political shenanigans. The fight over one man’s tract of sacred marsh fronts a deeper story of our... (more)
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  Cajun: Book 3

  The Cajun Cowboy

  by Sandra Hill

  Talk about a bad hair day! Louisiana beauty salon owner Charmaine LeDeux has a loan shark on her tail, and Raoul Lanier, the six-foot-three hunk of testosterone she thought she divorced, has just delivered a bombshell: They're still married! At least the rundown ranch they've inherited together is the perfect hideout.Holy crawfish! It's hard enough for Raoul to play cowboy to a bunch of scrawny steer,... (more)
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  The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine

  by John D. Folse

  Chef Folse's seventh cookbook is the authoritative collection on Louisiana's culture and cuisine. The book features more than 850 full-color pages, dynamic historical Louisiana photographs and more than 700 recipes. You will not only find step-by-step directions to preparing everything from a roux to a cochon de lait, but you will also learn about the history behind these recipes. Cajun and Creole cuisine was... (more)