Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
8 best books like Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Dan Baum): Plan of Attack, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Zeitoun, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, Why New Orleans Matters, Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743255488 |
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative...
| Author | Josh Neufeld |
| ISBN | 0307378144 |
A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurricane Katrina in the true stories of six New Orleanians who survived the storm.
A.D. follows each of the six from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath. Here is Denise, a sixth-generation...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0061124230 |
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...
| Author | Sara Roahen |
| ISBN | 0393061671 |
Celebrating New Orleans' food culture, one specialty at a time.
A cocktail is more than a segue to dinner when it's a Sazerac, an anise-laced drink of rye whiskey and bitters indigenous to New Orleans. For Wisconsin native Sara Roahen, a Sazerac is also a fine accompaniment to raw oysters, a looking...
| Author | Tom Piazza |
| ISBN | 0061124834 |
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...
| Author | Roy Blount Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400046459 |
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with...
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0770437060 |
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...
