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Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2005, c1992
Language
English
Description
The Walker clan, Vivi and Big Shep; their children Sidda, Little Shep, Lulu, and Baylor; Vivi's long-time girlfriends the Ya-Yas; and neighbors Cheney and Willetta, live out their lives in flamboyant and secretive style in the bayou of Thorton, Louisiana.
6) Fiddle fever
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is used to the undead, changeling, and preternatural beings that surround her, but the shapeshifter Quinn and the Rhodes vampire summit test Sookie's patience for the supernatural and pull her into a dangerous situation that threatens the fate of humanity.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse unexpectedly inherits the estate of her cousin Hadley, a consort of the vampire queen of New Orleans, and finds herself facing a group of undead enemies who will stop at nothing to keep Sookie from looking into Hadley's past and possessions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Louisiana telepath and cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is friendly with a pack of werewolves and blood bonded to a vampire leader, finds herself caught in the middle of a werewolf power struggle and learns about her family's past and her powers from her great grandfather.
11) Alligator Sue
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After being separated from her parents by a hurricane on the bayou, a young girl is raised by an alligator and later must discover who she really is.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Eve, a movie production company's location scout working in New Orleans, wrestles with family and work issues, and oppressive Southern heat, when her husband, Adam, is diagnosed with a fatal illness and forced to recuperate at his family's palatial home.
15) Cry wolf
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
Laurel Chandler has returned to Bayou Breaux seeking only to escape the destruction that her need for justice has created in her life but a serial killer lures her into a deadly game.
16) Blind alley
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked when her work on the skull of a newly discovered victim reveals a face nearly identical to that of Jane, her adopted daughter with detective Joe Quinn, and the situation worsens when Eve and Joe learn Jane has been targeted by a serial killer obsessed with women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress in ancient Rome.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Moinette, a mixed-race child born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, gains an education by listening to the lessons given her young mistress, and when she is sold and separated from her beloved mother at the age of fourteen, she immediately begins to make plans to gain her freedom.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana, and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
20) Dead until dark
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Language
English
Description
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds, thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she begins to fear for her life.
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