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61) Bayou dreaming
Author
Series
Butterfly Bayou volume 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Roxanne King left the big city looking for a simpler life, but after years of proving herself on a SWAT team in New York City, being deputy in a sleepy Louisiana parish is something of an adjustment. She's settling in, but she knows she made some mistakes in the beginning--Zep Guidry being the worst of them. Zep drifts through life on his looks and Cajun charm. Roxie learned the hard way he's not for her. Zep is a man who knows what he wants, and...
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his business partners, a dying Chef Julien decides to publish his secret recipes, and his daughter Chloe must search for the source of her father's seasonings while avoiding trouble from the opposition.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 132
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
64) Torn apart
Author
Series
Storm front volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When her young son Bobby goes missing during a tornado, Katie Earle must reunite with her ex-husband to search the wreckage in hopes of exposing a kidnapper who is using the storm's aftermath to cover his tracks.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they've managed to survive the scandal. Now there's a très bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat's nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer. Maggie, inexplicably tasked with being Vanessa's Maid of Honor, quickly discovers why everyone else refused the assignment when...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana deep in bayou country to escape the familiarity of her Alabama home. Though suspicious of outsiders, most of the people come to appreciate the young schoolteacher as a boon to the town. She's soon teaching just about everyone -- and comes up against opposition from both the school board and a politician with ulterior motives. When Ellie meets a Cajun fisherman named Raphe, he introduces...
Author
Series
Charlotte Cates novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the nightmares of a grieving parent, she soon realizes. They are...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
74) Buddy
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Li'l T and his family face great losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, including leaving Buddy, their very special, three-legged dog, behind when they must evacuate.
75) Bayou book thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When widow Ricki James returns to New Orleans and opens a gift shop full of vintage cookbooks, the discovery of a body in a box of donated books leads her to investigate the murder.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the end of August 2005, ten-year-old Armani is looking forward to her birthday party in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she and her extended family live, but Hurricane Katrina is on the way, bringing destruction and tragedy in its wake.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When Janet and Ted Conway inherit an old family mansion, Janet believes it is a chance for her family to start over, but the moment they step into the house, strange things begin happening and Janet realizes that a deadly evil resides in the house, threatening to destroy her and her family.
79) Such a good wife
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her lover, a local best-selling author, is murdered, Melanie Hale must keep the affair a secret to avoid being implicated in his death, forcing her to play a sinister cat-and-mouse game with a killer as she searches for the truth.
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