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1) 13 1/2
Author
Language
English
Description
In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
2) Lasher
Author
Series
Mayfair witches volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series!
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,”...
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,”...
3) The Chef
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Series
Language
English
Description
Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
Author
Series
Mayfair witches volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series!
“Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World
Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of...
“Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth.”—The Washington Post Book World
Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of...
5) Deadly night
Author
Series
Flynn brothers trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Flynn brothers have inherited more than a New Orleans plantation. They've inherited a ghostly presence - and a long-kept secret. Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors - especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white. But when he finds a human bone on the grounds and another by the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Musicians are being murdered in New Orleans. But Arnie Watson apparently died by his own hand. When Tyler Anderson plays the saxophone he inherited from Arnie, a soldier and musician who died soon after his return, he believes he sees visions of his friend's life--and death. He becomes convinced Arnie was murdered and that the instrument had something to do with whatever happened, and with whatever's happening all over the city. Tyler knows his theory...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Barry Hunter and his family attempt to ride out Hurricane Katrina at home in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans when his little sister gets ill, but when the levees break, Barry gets swept away from his family.
9) Burn
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to investigate what is has to do with Geneva's creepy tenant and a fugitive mother accused of killed her family.
10) Photo finished
Author
Series
Scrapbooking mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hostinga late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 4
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Nick finds himself unable to trust anyone but the being he has been warned will ultimately kill him, a situation that is complicated by his efforts to control his abilities and a sacrifice that he must make to defeat an ancient force.
12) Priceless
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
With her father in jail and her partying pals suddenly scarce, Charlotte escapes Manhattan and heads to the one place she doesn't think anyone will come looking: New Orleans. But she's being following by an angry stalker who wants nothing more than to destroy her for her father's crimes. With Mardi Gras around the corner, the masquerade has only just begun...
Author
Series
Day the Angels Fell volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Before the Tree of Life, everything in Abra Miller's life had been predictable. Safe. Normal. But after the Tree everything has felt fragile ... like holding a soap bubble in the palm of her hand. Now sixteen, Abra find a clue to the whereabouts of the next Tree of Life when an ominous woman-- who looks exactly like a ghost from her past-- compels her to travel to New Orleans where she'll find one of seven gateways between this world and Over There....
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Nick Gautier doesn't want to be the son of a demon who's fated to end the world. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else. When he gets sucked into an alternate reality where his mother has married his mentor and his Atlantean god best friend has become a human geek, he begins to understand that no life is free of pain, and that every person has a specific place in the universe... even the son of a hated demon.
15) Never never
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Series
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English
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"Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us joins forces with Tarryn Fisher, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wives. Together, they have created a gripping, twisty, romantic mystery unlike any other. Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first...
16) What if you & me
Author
Series
Say everything volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Horror author and true-crime podcaster Andi Lockley has spent so long researching real-life horror stories, she's practically forgotten what dating is. But when a detective moves next door and provides new fodder for her podcast-and a sense of safety she hasn't felt in a long time-she starts to wonder if it's time to retire her trust-no-man mentality"--
Andi Lockley narrowly escaped a dangerous man years ago, and every relationship since has been...
17) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them... without getting grounded by his mom?
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns,...
19) Keepsake crimes
Author
Series
Scrapbooking mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand turns sleuth when her estranged husband is accused of murdering a powerful New Orleans businessman, and amidst clippings, patterns, and pictures finds a clue that will prove his innocence.
20) Pieces of why
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha--but when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a baby is killed, Tia finds that she cannot sing, and she is forced to confront her feelings about her incarcerated father who killed a girl in a failed robbery years before.
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