Download or read book Bayou Tonight written by Erin Nicholas and published by Erin Nicholas. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a prequel to Gotta Be Bayou, book one of the Badges of the Bayou She’s so not his type. But he’s been thinking about her for almost a year now. He needs to figure out a way to get over her. Though kissing her at their friends’ wedding probably isn’t it… FBI agent Spencer Landry is looking for a sweet, bubbly sunshine at home to balance out all the darkness he sees in his work. Investigative journalist Max Keller is anything but. Oh, she’s gorgeous, and funny, and smart. But she’s also quirky and sarcastic, loves crime scenes, and can’t bake a brownie to save her life. They’re never going to work out. He really should stop kissing her. So this will be the last time. Maybe.

Download or read book Bayou written by Matthew Carlin and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Born on the Bayou written by Blaine Lourd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar and The Liars’ Club, Blaine Lourd writes a powerful Gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana. In this rags-to-riches memoir of finding your way and becoming a man, Blaine Lourd renders his childhood in rural Louisiana­ with his larger-than-life father, Harvey “Puffer” Lourd, Jr., a charismatic salesman during the exploding 1980s awl bidness. From cleaning a duck to drinking a beer, Puffer guides Blaine through the twists and turns of growing up, ultimately pointing him to a poignant truth: sometimes those you love the most can inflict the most pain. Set against a lush landscape of magnolia trees and majestic old homes, haunted swamps and swimming holes filled with wildlife, Lourd gets to the heart of being a Southerner with rawness and grace, beautifully detailing what it means to have a place so ingrained in your being. Just as the timeless memoirs All Over but the Shoutin’ and The Liar’s Club evoke the muggy air of a Southern summer and barrels of steaming crawfish, so does Blaine’s contemporary exploration of what it means to find yourself among the bayous and back roads. Charting his journey from his rural home to working the star-studded streets of Los Angeles as a financial advisor to the rich and famous, Blaine’s story is about the complicated path to success and identity. With witty grace and candid prose, he pays homage to family bonds, unwavering loyalty, and deep roots that cannot be severed, no matter how hard you try.

Download or read book Blood Bayou written by Lynn Emery and published by Lynn Emery. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their daughter Ellie gets in trouble at school, LaShaun Rousselle and her deputy husband Chase Broussard find themselves pulled into a murky web of secrets, lies, and murder. What starts as a simple disciplinary issue soon turns into a complex investigation, with Ellie's tutor charged with murder and links to Chase's latest case. As the evidence mounts against the girl, LaShaun must rely on her psychic abilities and an eccentric old woman living in the swamps to uncover the truth and save an innocent life. With the help of an unlikely ally, LaShaun must unravel the mysteries of Blood Bayou and confront the dark forces that lurk there before it's too late.

Download or read book Bayou Farewell written by Mike Tidwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that makes it unlike any other place in the world. But seeing the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, and whole cemeteries sinking into swampland and out of sight, Tidwell also explains why each introduction may be a farewell—as the storied Louisiana coast steadily erodes into the Gulf of Mexico. Part travelogue, part environmental exposé, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.

Download or read book Voodoo On The Bayou written by Elle James and published by Elle James. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Elle James, the 1st book in the Cajun Magic Series Don’t piss off the Voodoo Queen… Craig Thibodeaux’s tangled with the wrong person. Cursed by Bayou Miste’s notorious Voodoo Queen, he’s destined to be a frog by day and a man by night. If he doesn’t find someone to love him by the next full moon, he’ll remain amphibious for the rest of his days. Elaine Smith came to Bayou Miste to investigate the source of pollutants and finds herself in need of a bodyguard when she gets too close to revealing the source. Though suspiciously absent during the day, handsome local Craig Thibodeaux offers to be that bodyguard in her forays into the swamp at night. Together, they discover the culprits and a magical desire neither expected to find in the blackest waters of the bayou.

Download or read book The Papers of written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cold Bayou written by Barbara Hambly and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride ... The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery. “Don’t go to Cold Bayou, brother ... Nuthin’ good waiting for you there.” New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie Trask, and nothing will stand in his way. On the isolated plantation of Cold Bayou where the ceremony is to take place, tension is rife even before the body is discovered in the woods behind the dower house, its throat cut. A yet more disturbing turn of events sees January himself accused of the crime...

Download or read book She s So Fine Reflections on Whiteness Femininity Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music written by Laurie Stras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link close musical readings with rigorous cultural analysis in the treatment of artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Crystals, The Blossoms, Brenda Lee, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Tina Turner, and Marianne Faithfull. Currently available studies of 1960s girl groups/girl singers fall into one of three categories: industry-generated accounts of the music's production and sales, sociological commentaries, or omnibus chronologies/discographies. She's So Fine, by contrast, focuses on clearly defined themes via case studies of selected artists. Within this analytical rather than historically comprehensive framework, this book presents new research and original observations on the 60s girl group/girl singer phenomenon.

Download or read book The Awakening written by Jean Max Dorsinville and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of two families diverged after a chance encounter between two newlywed mothers pushing their infant carriages on a day with promises of the unknown. A friendship develops almost serendipitously on the road of life, beckoning all living creatures. A commonality soon unfolds during their initial conversationshow fortunate! What is to become of these two families encountering lifes challenges to adhere to a sense of morality, the guiding principle for a successful journey on a road that diverges, and choosing the least traveled with no certainty of a fruitful outcome?

Download or read book The Bartered Bride Romance Collection written by JoAnn A. Grote and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure this beautiful collection packed with all the angst of romance founded upon practical arrangements. Four sisters travel in answer to an ad before even corresponding with potential husbands. Two women bend to the will of their parents in taking husbands. A widow commits to a stranger in name only. And two women on the Oregon Trail hitch their lives to men they’ve just met. Will love blossom for convenience sake?

Download or read book Snapper written by Wolfgang Cooper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-06-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SNAPPER is a story that mirrors the raucous vitality of masterpieces such as Jaws and Tremors. SNAPPER mixes suspense, horror, humor and bayou country hi-jinks to conjure up a tale that just might be true, as a Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle, whose natural habitat is being destroyed by an evil oil drilling company, goes on a rampage in the small Louisiana river town of Scottsville. The 15 foot, 3 ton Snapper, eats and destroys anything in its path. After several locals have mysteriously disappeared, Herpetologists Matt Peterson and Professor Jonathan Moorehead, along with Mooreheads beautiful daughter, Jennifer, suspect that something strange is going on and set out to investigate. Caspar Lloyd, whose oil company is illegally polluting the bayou, doesnt want them snooping around and attempts to curtail their investigation by various forms of subterfuge. Sheriff Roy Hawkins, the Scottsville Constable, doesnt believe the story about the Giant Snapping Turtle and warns Matt and the Professor to leave the investigations to the police. But with the assistance of the cantankerous hermit, Sam Wade, our heroes journey out into the unexplored regions of the bayou, where no man has ever set foot. It is in this foreboding domain of the swamp that they must contend with the monstrous terrapin himself, along with Caspar Lloyd and his red-neck henchmen who are attempting to cover up the illegal oil drilling operation. ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE Historical background (Macrochelys Temmincki) The Alligator Snapping Turtle is the largest fresh-water turtle found in the United States. It lives in the rivers that flow into the Gulf of Mexico, from Texas to Western Florida. Its center of abundance is in the lower Mississippi Valley, where it ranges north as far as central Illinois. It attains a weight of 250 pounds, although larger specimens have been reported, including a veritable giant of 403 pounds. This reptile is the undisputed monarch of all it surveys and is as savage as it looks. The bite of the Alligator Snapper is legendary. Folklore has it that even if the turtle is decapitated, the head will live until sundown. Backwoodsmen in the Southeast claim that the animal can bite a broomstick in two and will hold on to a victim until the sky thunders. According to Uley Bass, a veteran Florida turtle hunter, there is some truth to this claim. Late one night sixteen years ago, my son and I pulled an old 75 pound Alligator Snapper out of the swamp. Like a fool I put the Snapper right behind me in the boat. After a time we got stuck in some reeds, so I reached back for a paddle and SLAM, something hit my hand so fast I didnt know what had happened. Then all of a sudden there was blood everywhere, and my son was shouting, Dad, two of your fingers just dropped into the bottom of the boat. Alligator Snappers do not have discriminating appetites. Anything that wanders by is fair game. Dissected stomachs have contained baby alligators, raccoons, snakes, acorns, shoes, and even other turtles. It is primarily nocturnal and aptly named. One large Snapper, after being hauled on board by some trappers, bit a sizeable chunk out of their wooden canoe, according to a 1950 account.

Download or read book Gumbo Life Tales from the Roux Bayou written by Ken Wells and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprightly, deeply personal narrative about how gumbo—for 250 years a Cajun and Creole secret—has become one of the world’s most beloved dishes. Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: “Momma.” The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans—all had a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight and nourish so many? And what explains its spread around the world? A seasoned journalist, Ken Wells sleuths out the answers. His obsession goes back to his childhood in the Cajun bastion of Bayou Black, where his French-speaking mother’s gumbo often began with a chicken chased down in the yard. Back then, gumbo was a humble soup little known beyond the boundaries of Louisiana. So when a homesick young Ken, at college in Missouri, realized there wasn’t a restaurant that could satisfy his gumbo cravings, he called his momma for the recipe. That phone-taught gumbo was a disaster. The second, cooked at his mother’s side, fueled a lifelong quest to explore gumbo’s roots and mysteries. In Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou, Wells does just that. He spends time with octogenarian chefs who turn the lowly coot into gourmet gumbo; joins a team at a highly competitive gumbo contest; visits a factory that churns out gumbo by the ton; observes the gumbo-making rituals of an iconic New Orleans restaurant where high-end Creole cooking and Cajun cuisine first merged. Gumbo Life, rendered in Wells’ affable prose, makes clear that gumbo is more than simply a delicious dish: it’s an attitude, a way of seeing the world. For all who read its pages, this is a tasty culinary memoir—to be enjoyed and shared like a simmering pot of gumbo.

Download or read book Alligator Bayou written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation. In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and spare, beautiful language take the classic immigrant story to new levels of emotion and searing truth. Alligator Bayou tells a story that all Americans should know.

Download or read book The Civil War A Narrative written by Shelby Foote and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln. Features maps throughout. "An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." —Walker Percy “To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this volume convinced that no one need undertake this particular enterprise again.” —Newsweek “In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail, in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject. . . . Written in the tradition of the great historian-artists—Gibbon, Prescott, Napier, Freeman—it stands alongside the work of the best of them.” —The New Republic “The most written-about war in history has, with this completion of Shelby Foote’s trilogy, been given the epic treatment it deserves.” —Providence Journal

Download or read book Hurricane Agnes June 14 23 1972 written by United States. National Weather Service. Office of Meteorological Operations and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preliminary Reports on Hurricanes and Tropical Storms written by United States. Office of Meteorological Operations and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: