Author: Elizabeth McCourt Publisher: Post Hill Press ISBN: 1682615774 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Abby Callahan moved to New Orleans to escape her past screw-ups in her small hometown. While out running, she sees a woman who had been raped and discarded, like trash. Abby finds herself selfishly pursuing the case to help her career, even though the victim is reluctant. The trial starts, the judge is suddenly arrested, but Abby is pulled back to New York when her father commits suicide. Managing her grief and complicated family dynamics, she tries both to rekindle and remedy her old romances. But she is pulled back to The Big Easy when her client goes missing. As more girls turn up dead—with Abby as their common connection—Abby decides to play detective with her journalist friend Jill Lejeune. Abby feels responsible to find her client alive, even as she comes to terms with her past mistakes, including how her lies allowed someone else to go to prison. Abby discovers she’s in over her head when Jill is beaten because she’s been mistaken for Abby. She wonders if everyone in her life is connected to this case. Abby seems to be the only one committed to finding the truth and decides to stop listening to everyone before she ends up at the morgue. A last-ditch call to the FBI and a rendezvous at the shipping warehouse lead Abby to one last dangerous situation where she finds out betrayal was in front of her the whole time.
Author: Edward T. Welch Publisher: New Growth Press ISBN: 1645074064 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 149
Book Description
Overly concerned about what people think of you? Edward T. Welch uncovers the spiritual dimension of people-pleasing—what the Bible calls fear of man—and points the way through a true knowledge of God, ourselves, and others.
Author: Troy Taylor Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614230110 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
The author of Haunted New Orleans digs up NOLA’s long and lawless history—from pirates and prostitutes to mobsters and murderers. Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds, and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. It was also considered one of the country’s most dangerous cities, with a reputation of crime and loose morals. Rampant gambling and prostitution were the norm in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and over one-third of today’s French Quarter was considered a hotbed of sin. Tales in this volume include that of the notorious Axeman who plagued the streets of the Crescent City in the early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prostitute who was murdered by her own lover, a man who later was awarded her inheritance. Troy Taylor takes a look back at New Orleans’s early wicked days and historic crimes. Includes photos
Author: Anthony J. Stanonis Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820341584 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure. Stanonis looks at the importance of urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, and convention marketing to New Orleans' makeover and chronicles the city's efforts to domesticate its jazz scene, "democratize" Mardi Gras, and stereotype local blacks into docile, servile roles. He also looks at depictions of the city in literature and film and gauges the impact on New Orleans of white middle-class America's growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, and tolerance of women in public spaces once considered off-limits. Visitors go to New Orleans with expectations rooted in the city's "past": to revel with Mardi Gras maskers, soak up the romance of the French Quarter, and indulge in rich cuisine and hot music. Such a past has a basis in history, says Stanonis, but it has been carefully excised from its gritty context and scrubbed clean for mass consumption.
Author: Maggie Rowe Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1593766661 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
A tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell--an NPR Best Book of the Year. As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian —regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the “good news” that they were going to hell. Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he’s only “locked up for a tune-up,” and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author’s closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, "Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."
Author: Andrew Shankland Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 9781475936766 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
Herein reveals the uniqueness of Cajun country and the hospitality of its people. Moreover, how the diversity of things there engulfs the emotions of visitors. A man and woman of the 'Baby Boomer' generation renew an old friendship unexpectedly while attending a conference in the French Quarter. Neither one had visited there before, but each had their own emotions regarding the trip. The man has fantasized about meeting a blonde bomb shell, whereas, the woman has relished the opportunity to see the diverse architecture, famous restaurants and entertainment. Picture in your mind the roles of the three main characters being played by Jack Lemon, Caroll Burnette and Redd Foxx. -A. Shankland
Author: Shayla Black Publisher: Berkley ISBN: 0425275345 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
"Years ago, Naval officer Dax Spencer and NCIS agent Holland Kirk indulged in a steamy affair--until she betrayed him in the wake of his father's death. Dax tried to put her behind him with a payback of his own. But he never forgot Holland. Now, as Dax and his fellow Perfect Gentlemen unravel a web of lies, he discovers his family's tragedy is part of a much larger conspiracy. Soon, all clues point him back to New Orleans, where Holland waits, protecting her deadly secret and holding a torch for the only man she's ever loved"--
Author: Gary Krist Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) ISBN: 0770437060 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 434
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Describes the internal struggle in early-twentieth-century New Orleans between the city's upper crust and the underworld, focusing on the head of the red light district, who fought to keep his vice business at the top in a wicked city.
Author: Elizabeth McCourt
Author: Jeanne Marie Quinn
Author: Edward T. Welch
Author: Troy Taylor
Author: Anthony J. Stanonis
Author: John Owen
Author: Maggie Rowe
Author: Andrew Shankland
Author: Shayla Black
Author: Gary Krist