Download or read book Love Finds You in New Orleans Louisiana written by Christa Allan and published by Ellie Claire. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since her parents died of yellow fever when she was a child, Charlotte LeClerc has lived with her grandparents, who rarely speak of their son and his wife. They are on the verge of negotiating a marriage contract with a suitor, a man Charlotte loathes, when they discover that she enjoys the company of Gabriel Girod, a young Creole man. Charlotte's future hangs in the balance as her grandparents consider whether to stop keeping secrets and reveal the truth that they've known since before her birth--a truth that will make the difference between a life of obligation and a life of choice for Charlotte.

Download or read book Chapel of Love written by Rosa Hawkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Hawkins and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson traveled from the segregated South to New York City under the auspices of their manager, former pop singer Joe Jones. With their wonderful harmonies, they were an immediate success. To this day, the Dixie Cups’ greatest hit, “Chapel of Love,” is considered one of the best songs of the past sixty years. The Dixie Cups seemed to have the world on a string. Their songs were lively and popular, singing on such topics as love, romance, and Mardi Gras, including the classic “Iko Iko.” Behind the stage curtain, however, their real-life story was one of cruel exploitation by their manager, who continued to harass the women long after they finally broke away from his thievery and assault. Of the three young women, no one suffered more than the youngest, Rosa Hawkins, who was barely out of high school when the New Orleans teens were discovered and relocated to New York City. At the peak of their success, Rosa was a naïve songstress entrapped in a world of abuse and manipulation. Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups explores the ups and downs of one of the most successful girl groups of the early 1960s. Telling their story for the first time, in their own words, Chapel of Love reintroduces the Louisiana Music Hall of Famers to a new audience.

Download or read book For the Love of You written by Donna Hill and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Essence® Bestselling AuthorLawsons of LouisianaCraig Lawson is the hottest filmmaker in Hollywood, and he's ready to produce his masterpiece. But it means returning to the Louisiana roots he left behind almost a decade ago. In the French Quarter, he finds a historic house that is perfect for his project . . . and the unconventional owner is a beauty of fascinating contradictions.

Download or read book Louisiana Love written by Patricia Rowe and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana Love is the first book in a series. The story begins as Harold finds his true love. Harold is an immigrant from Poland who comes to America. As he travels the Mississippi River, Harold falls in love with a southern belle. They have their ups and downs, but eventually discover the road to happiness.

Download or read book Voices of the Enslaved written by Sophie White and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.

Download or read book Louisiana Lovesong written by Wanda Owen and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending five years at a finishing school, Chantel returns to her mother's New Orleans restaurant and catches the eye of raven-haired stranger Gabe O'Roarke.

Download or read book Lots of Love in Louisiana An Alliteration Adventure from A to Z written by Erik Jessen and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining read for any parent or child. Learn about Louisiana culture using fun alliteration while enjoying delightful characters that will make you laugh. This book is written and illustrated by Erik Jessen, a life long resident of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Download or read book Love War written by James Carville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades. James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically mismatched and intensely opinionated political couple. In this follow-up to All’s Fair, Carville and Matalin pick up the story they began in that groundbreaking bestseller and talk family, faith, love, and politics in their two winning voices. If nothing else, this new collaboration proves that after twenty years of marriage they can still manage to agree on a few things. A fascinating look at the last two decades in American politics and an intimate, quick-witted primer on grown-up relationships and values, Love & War provides unprecedented insight into one of our nation’s most intriguing and powerful couples. With their natural charm and sharp intelligence, Carville and Matalin have written undoubtedly the most spirited memoir of the year.

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Download or read book Louisiana s Way Home written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana’s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town — including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder — she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes. (Which could be due to the curse on Louisiana's and Granny’s heads. But that is a story for another time.) Called “one of DiCamillo’s most singular and arresting creations” by The New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale — and now, with humor and tenderness, Kate DiCamillo returns to tell her story.

Download or read book Love Fumbles A High School Romance Novel about a Quarterback Race and Relationships in 1960 s Louisiana written by Regina Nicole Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Boudreaux's all-white, Eurocentric, high school becomes integrated with students from the all-colored school. Can Paul make it through his senior year as a changed person or will he fumble back into his old beliefs due to increased pressures from his own separatist community?

Download or read book We Want to Do More Than Survive written by Bettina L. Love and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.

Download or read book It s Wifey Over Everything written by Giselle Gates and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's the bond we share, not marital status, that will always put you before everything." Newly divorced Prosper and Mozart Saint-Rome vowed to always remain friends when their matrimony of fifteen years peacefully ended. Although they mutually agreed to call it quits, Mozart pondered if his ex-wife would ever be his sweetheart again. Raising and co-parenting four kids was easy in the Saint-Rome household; however, to find true love wasn't. Well, at least for Mozart. A now successful Forex trader with gold diggers in arm's reach. For Prosper, an alluring celebrity chef, love flowed to her effortlessly. Her new lover, Storge Comeaux was a popular bodyguard for some of Louisiana's hottest entertainers. It only took him three weeks to sweep Prosper off her feet and ask the big question. To witness the woman, he still loved and craved say I do again rattles emotions Mozart assumed faded away. He also questioned if their divorce was the ultimate mistake. Could he truly continue being the ex-factor with disguised emotions and an uneasy feeling about Storge? When tragedy strikes and leaves Prosper in danger and on the run with her new husband, what will Mozart do? Any AND everything to bring Prosper home!! Why? Because even after Mozart and Prosper said I do, I did, and I'm done, IT'S STILL WIFEY OVER EVERYTHING!

Download or read book My Louisiana Sky written by Kimberly Willis Holt and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana--far away from her mentally disabled mother, her "slow" father who can't read an electric bill, and her classmates who taunt her. So when Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to sp the summer with her in Baton Rouge, Tiger can't wait to go. But before she leaves, the sudden revelation of a dark family secret prompts Tiger to make a decision that will ultimately change her life. Set in the South in the late 1950s, this coming-of-age novel explores a twelve-year-old girl's struggle to accept her grandmother's death, her mentally deficient parents, and the changing world around her. It is a novel filled with beautiful language and unforgettable characters, and the importance of family and home. My Louisiana Sky is a 1998 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award Honor Book for Fiction.

Download or read book Whisper and Hitta written by Nakiala Comeaux and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when the man of your dreams doesn't understand how much a woman loves? You make him walk in your shoes and feel exactly what you feel.Whisper is ready for something new now that she has ended her on and off again relationship with Joe. After all the heartache and tears he caused, she is slowly going back to her no good ways. All that is about to change when she meets Hitta, a.k.a. "Mr. Perfect." He's charming, good looking, ambitious, and that's exactly what Whisper needs. With all the love that Hitta is showering Whisper with she can finally love and trust again ... until things go left, but they stay RIGHT.Once Hitta is abruptly taken out of Whisper's life she finally has totally control of their relationship. Will Whisper stick by his side and show him she's the perfect woman for him? Or will she spoon feed him a dose of his own medicine? Love is in the air, but so is betrayal, lies, and hate. It doesn't matter if you're wearing a pair of clearance heels or Christian Louboutin, a man could never walk in a woman's shoes. Not everyone can have a relationship like Nikko Cyn and Jacobie Johnson. So get ready for this crazy love journey that Hitta and Whisper will take you through.

Download or read book The Wrong Decision written by Danyelle Scroggins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kane Jackson Booth is in love with Veronica Kimbrel and neither of them desire to venture into forbidden territories but things are becoming a bit more heated than either of them can handle. So in making what she feels is a right suggestion, Kane makes a wrong decision that could cost them their forever after. Right when things are shaking and seemingly cracking, Selena is in need of help and Veronica uses this opportunity to leave Kane and all of their problems behind her. She soon finds out that running away doesn't always solve the problem, or make things right but in the school of love, making The Wrong Decision because of someone else's wrong decision, can bring love to a breaking point and destroy what God has plans to put together. Now, that Veronica is heading home, she has to face the facts that she's just as bad as Kane. But what she does not know is, Kane has come face to face with his own facts and is preparing a surprise that will altar their very lives, and at the same time bring joy and healing to their hearts. Jasmine is now Jasmine Kimbrel, the wife of Vance Kimbrel but her Jessica Booth is making the right choice with repairing the breach completely between she and Jasper Sr. Will this be another Booth surprise to remember? Or will The Wrong Decision ruin their chances at being the one big happy family everyone respects?