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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The accidental santera	Irete Lazo	Out of desperation to become a mother and save both her job and her marriage, Gabrielle turns to Puerto Rican relatives living in Miami she hasn't seen since she was a child. She finds herself warmly…	OL11967418W
13 1/2	Nevada Barr	In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the "Butcher Boy" incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide. Now,…	OL134386W
CliffsCompleteTM The Awakening	Sheri Metzger	A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from the turn-of-the-century presses. With a heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and mother…	OL15184170W
Ninth Ward	Jewell Parker Rhodes	"En Louisiane, tout le monde croit aux esprits. Lanesha, elle, a le don de les voir. "Tu es comme moi, ma chérie, tu as un don de double vue ", lui a expliqué Mama Ya-Ya, la sage-femme qui l'a recuei…	OL15731988W
Twelve bar blues	Patrick Neate	Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans.	OL15845648W
The terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans	Rick Geary	Nights of terror! A city awash in blood! New Orleans right after the First World War. The party returns to the Big Easy but someone looks to spoil it. Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night …	OL15932568W
Dinosaur Mardi Gras	Dianne De las Casas	Dinosaurs parade down the streets of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras carnival. Includes glossary and related craft activity.	OL16184007W
Nocturnal	Kate Douglas,Jacquelyn Frank,Jess Haines,Clare Willis	A collection of four paranormal romances includes Jacquelyn Frank's "The Phoenix Project," in which Amara is locked in a room with a gorgeous ex-cop after they have both been given drugs that increas…	OL17732808W
The betrayed	Jana DeLeon	One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder, earthly or not, is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to cla…	OL17798475W
Cover me	Joanna Wayne,Mallory Kane,Rita B. Herron	Bayou payback: "Detective Remy Comeaux never got over the loss of his beloved fiance e. But when he returns to New Orleans to expose ongoing corruption and meets Nicole Worthington, something about t…	OL17799722W
Infinityglass	Myra McEntire	"From the moment the Hourglass group violated the rules of the space time continuum to rescue a murdered loved one, time has been in flux. People from other centuries slide into our time, intruding i…	OL17880752W
The right thing	Amy Conner	On a scorching August day in 1963, seven-year-old Annie Banks meets the girl who will become her best friend. Skinny, outspoken Starr Dukes and her wandering preacher father may not be accepted by po…	OL17897848W
Little black girl lost 5	Keith Lee Johnson	Lauren Renee Bouvier, now wealthy and free from slavery courtesy of her plantation owner's will, is torn between revenge for the murders of innocent slaves and the pursuit of the American dream in 17…	OL17912009W
A pinch of love	Alicia Bessette	After she joins a baking contest to try to shake off the lingering grief from her husband's death, Zell Carmichael Roy befriends her nine-year-old next-door neighbor, a motherless girl who joins Zell…	OL18175767W
Dawn Encounter:(Masters at Arms#2)	Jennifer Blake	They are perhaps the most dangerous men in New Orleans, skilled swordsmen who play by no rules but their own -- heroes to many, wicked to some, irresistible to the women they love... Lisette Moisa…	OL1893720W
Death of a dying man	J. M. Redmann	New Orleans PI Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James. Micky’s insistence that the skills of a…	OL19930515W
Parchment and old lace	Laura Childs	Laura Childs "returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery..."--	OL20008543W
Murder in July	Barbara Hambly	250 pages ; 23 cm	OL20193402W
Contract	J. M. Gulvin	1 volume ; 24 cm	OL21141154W
Breakfast in Bed	Rochelle Alers	443 pages (large print) ; 23 cm	OL21310279W