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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Why New Orleans matters Why New Orleans matters Tom Piazza New Orleans author Tom Piazza explores the culture, traditions, and spirit of his home city, reflecting upon what could be lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and explaining why the city must … OL16948099W
A free state A free state Tom Piazza This novel is set in 1855, when Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims, a fugitive slave and a brill… OL20008034W
Why New Orleans Matters Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza,Tom Piazza An impassioned plea for the meaning of New Orleans in American life–past, present, and future–at its moment of greatest peril.Award–winning novelist and cultural critic writer Tom Piazza is a longtim… OL2680760W