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Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans

8 best books like Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (Roy Blount Jr.): Red at the Bone, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Why New Orleans Matters, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Red at the Bone
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0525535276
Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.

As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
AuthorCaitlin Doughty
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
AuthorDouglas Brinkley
ISBN0061124230
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana...
Why New Orleans Matters
AuthorTom Piazza
ISBN0061124834
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring...
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
AuthorDan Baum
The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters

After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most...
Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
AuthorMike Tidwell
ISBN0375725172
The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself.  As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
ISBN0735213232
Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the...
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
AuthorGary Krist
ISBN0770437060
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City

Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...
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