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Absalom, Absalom! • William Faulkner LITERATURE • 1991 • PAPER • 313 PAGES Faulkner's brilliant masterpiece on human nature and the Old South, a challenging but rewarding read. (USS69, $15.00)
Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 • Carl A. Brasseaux HISTORY • 1992 • PAPER • 252 PAGES A focused history of cultural, social and political developments in New Orleans from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Written by the respected Cajun historian Carl Brasseaux. (USS163, $22.00)
All the King's Men • Robert Penn Warren LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER • 438 PAGES Penn Warren drew on the character of Huey Long for this novel about a Louisiana politician who hits the big-time and loses his heart to power. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947. This edition contains a large amount of "restored text" that was cut from the first edition. (USS253, $15.95)
Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway • Mary Ann Sternberg GUIDEBOOK • 1996 • PAPER • 344 PAGES A travel guide to the 100-mile historic River Road from Baton Rouge to New Orleans along the Mississippi. With a concise history of the Mississippi and early settlers (including the effects of natural disasters and catastrophes like floods and cholera). (USS178, $18.95)
As I Lay Dying • William Faulkner LITERATURE • 1991 • PAPER • 267 PAGES Faulkner's deadpan yet tragic tale of the Bundren family's journey across Mississippi with Addie, their deceased wife and mother, in tow. (USS68, $14.00)
The Awakening • Kate Chopin • Marilynne Robinson LITERATURE • 1981 • PAPER • 208 PAGES The 1899 novel that forever vanquished "feminine propriety." Chopin's exhilarating, tragic feminist novella sings with the Cajun and Creole cadences of her native New Orleans. (USS229, $4.95)
Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston • Edward T. Cotham HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 252 PAGES This well researched narrative history chronicles the military engagement on Galveston Bay during the Civil War. Cotham thoroughly recreates the Battle of Galveston and develops the historical characters involved on both sides of the battle. (TEX02, $25.00)
Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Missippi, 1770-1860 • Christopher Morris HISTORY • 1999 • PAPER • 258 PAGES Tracing its long histories of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Morris takes a close and richly detailed look at a representative Southern community: Jefferson Davis's Warren County, in the state's southwestern corner. Drawing on many wills, deeds, court records, and manuscript materials, he reveals the transformation of a loosely knit, typically Western community of pioneer homesteaders into a distinctly Southern society based on plantation agriculture, slavery, and a patriarchal social order. (USS160, $50.00)
The Beleaguered City, The Vicksburg Campaign • Shelby Foote HISTORY • 1995 • HARD COVER • 347 PAGES Shelby Foote, a noted Civil War scholar, tells the engrossing narrative of the taking of Vicksburg in 1863 by Ulysses S. Grant and his Union troops. It was one of the pivotal battles of the Civil War, and distinguished Grant as a military genius. (USS51, $19.00)
The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession • Mark Obmascik NATURAL HISTORY • 2011 • PAPER • 272 PAGES Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year, a quest that has his three competitors on the road at a moments notice, heading out in the middle of the night, and combing the beaches. As he so winningly demonstrates, these people are driven. (BRD29, $15.00)
The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife • Christopher W. Leahy • Gordon Morrison NATURAL HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 1072 PAGES A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. Published in cooperation with the American Birding Association. (NAM21, $19.95)
Blues from the Delta • William R. Ferris MUSIC • 1988 • PAPER A cultural history of the Blues from the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. (MUS34, $16.50)
Boat People • Mary Gardner LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER • 280 PAGES This award-winning novel tells the various stories of a group of Vietnamese refugees living in Galveston, Texas. (TEX26, $15.95)
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America • Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2003 • PAPER • 204 PAGES An account of Cabeza de Vaca's 16th-century epic adventures in the New World. Only a handful of men survived the eight-year, 6,000-mile expedition across America from Tampa bay to Sinaloa, Mexico. They were the first Europeans to set foot in the interior of Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Northernmost Mexico. In this English-language edition, reproduced from their award-winning three-volume set, Adorno and Pautz supplement the engrossing account with a general introduction that orients the reader to Cabeza de Vaca's world. They also provide explanatory notes, which resolve many of the narrative's most perplexing questions. This highly readable translation fires the imagination and illuminates the enduring appeal of Cabeza de Vaca's experience for a modern audience. (SWU40, $24.95)
Cajun and Creole Folktales, The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana • Barry Jean Ancelet LITERATURE • 1994 • PAPER • 296 PAGES An excellent, wide-ranging compilation of Cajun and Creole folktales, presented side-by-side in French and English. It includes magic tales, jokes, animal tales, tall tales and legends. With biographies of storytellers, an extensive bibliography, some black-and-white photos and an index. (USS152, $25.00)
Cajun and Creole Music Makers • Barry Jean Ancelet • Elemore Morgan MUSIC • 1999 • PAPER • 176 PAGES An illustrated portrait of Cajun and Creole musicians in their surroundings, featuring more than 100 full-color photographs of great musicians including Dewey Balfa, Dennis McGee, Octa Clark, D. L. Menard, Canray Fontenot, Lula Landry and Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin. A bilingual edition in both English and French. Originally published in 1984, this edition has been revised to include more recent musicians such as Steve Riley and Dirk Powell. (USS172, $40.00)
Cajun Country • Barry Jean Ancelet • Jay D. Edwards • Glen Pitre CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1991 • PAPER • 256 PAGES An overview of the history and culture of the Cajuns of South Louisiana. This book investigates the history, social institutions, and cultural activities of this ethnic group, with scholarship of folklorists and historians throughout the text. (USS153, $25.00)
Cajun Country Guide • Mason Fry • Julie Posner GUIDEBOOK • 1999 • PAPER • 512 PAGES A comprehensive guide to South Louisiana's Cajun country, with good coverage of the region's culture, music and food. It includes information on places to eat and sleep, swamp tours, plantation homes, festivals and other attractions. (USS177, $17.95)
The Cajuns, Americanization of a People • Shane K. Bernard HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 196 PAGES A history of the Cajuns over the last 60 years. (USS334, $20.00)
The Civil War Times Illustrated Photographic History of the Civil War, Vicksburg to Appomattox • William Davis • Bell. I. Wiley HISTORY • 1994 • HARD COVER • 1366 PAGES A massive history of the Civil War featuring 4,000 archival photographs, drawings and maps. With accompanying text on the leaders, heroes, campaigns, and battles of the Civil War. (USS156, $39.98)
The Civil War, A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox • Shelby Foote HISTORY • 1986 • PAPER This classic, three-volume collection documents the military and political battles of the Civil War. (USS116, $78.00)
The Coming of Age in Mississippi • Anne Moody BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1997 • PAPER • 384 PAGES This powerful and provocative autobiography from Anne Moody vividly documents the discrimination many African Americans had to face in the South in the 1950s. Her passionate fight against racism encounters many obstacles, such as finding her name on a KKK "wanted" list. Her stories are intense but full of courage and the truest convictions. (USS140, $7.99)
A Confederacy of Dunces • John Kennedy Toole LITERATURE • 1987 • PAPER • 405 PAGES This is the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, drenched in New Orleans color and culture. Its sharp (often black) humor, combined with vivid local detail, makes it great reading for any visitor to New Orleans. (USS02, $15.00)
The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 384 PAGES Melville's last novel, the tale of a gambler and con man on a Mississippi River steam boat. (USM112, $12.95)
The Control of Nature • John McPhee NATURAL HISTORY • 1989 • PAPER • 272 PAGES A bestseller in the classic McPhee tradition, this book explores our generally feeble attempts to combat all-powerful nature. Interweaving solid science, interviews and observation, he chronicles the army corps of engineers and their efforts to control the Mississippi, Icelanders and their attempts to control the flow of a volcano, and Angelinos and how they cope with the ever-present threat of seismic destruction. A national treasure, no one explains geology and geologists like McPhee. Like most of his work, these vintage essays originally appeared in the "New Yorker." (NAT01, $16.00)
Creole New Orleans, Race and Americanization • Joseph Logsdon • Arnold R. Hirsch HISTORY • 1992 • PAPER • 456 PAGES A scholarly history of New Orleans. The six contributors cover the French assimilation of Native Americans and African Americans (including slaves), ensuing Americanization of the city, as well as tensions between Afro-Creoles and Afro-Americans, and their struggles over Reconstruction. (USS171, $24.95)
Creoles of Color of the Gulf South • James H. Dormon HISTORY • 1996 • HARD COVER • 224 PAGES The eight contributors explore Creole origins, language, music and culture in this scholarly history. (USS166, $34.00)
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta • Robert Palmer MUSIC • 1995 • PAPER • 320 PAGES Palmer crafts an engaging, thoroughly interesting history of blues music, tracing it from its rural roots in the Mississippi Delta to great blues musicians like Muddy Waters and B.B. King. (USS396, $16.00)
Delta Wedding • Eudora Welty LITERATURE • 1979 • PAPER • 326 PAGES A Mississippi Delta plantation is the setting for Welty's comedy of manners, which affectionately sends up an extended southern clan. (USS251, $14.00)
Eyewitness Guide New Orleans • Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2010 • PAPER • 240 PAGES Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of New Orleans, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (USS305, $20.00)
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company, A Story of George Washington's Times • Charles Royster HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 627 PAGES The story of an enterprise that was conjured by "schemers and dreamers" to drain and develop the Dismal Swamp, a vast area along the Virginia and North Carolina border. Famous participants in the plan to use the land to raise tobacco for trade with Europe included George Washington, Robert "King" Carter, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Robert Morris. It's a tale of idealism and greed surrounding transatlantic culture in 18th-century America. (USS54, $16.00)
Fabulous New Orleans • Lyle Saxon CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1989 • PAPER • 400 PAGES First published in the 1920s, this charming book by local journalist and literary personality Lyle Saxon is a lovely, impressionistic chronicle of the city, its people and its culture. The book is divided into a series of tales grouped by subject (Mardi Gras, the French Quarter, etc.). Many are self-contained stories of historical or contemporary events, tinged with personal reflections. A terrific introduction to the flavor of the city. Illustrated with line drawings and pencil sketches. (USS01, $16.99)
Flash for Freedom • George MacDonald Fraser LITERATURE • 1989 • PAPER • 287 PAGES In this fifth installment in the rollicking series, our self-serving, cowardly Victorian hero finds himself playing a role in the Civil War. Flashman meets up with Abraham Lincoln (who saves his neck), runs a slave plantation, cheats at cards, escapes on a slave ship and helps out in Underground Railroad. the Much of the action takes place in New Orleans. (USS372, $16.00)
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord • George MacDonald Fraser LITERATURE • 1996 • PAPER • 394 PAGES A womanizer, coward and reluctant hero, George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman finds himself at the center of extraordinary events in this on ongoing series. In this 10th installmant, Flashy is kidnapped in Cape Town (talk about relunctant) and soon with John Brown on his fateful 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry. This naturally gives Fraser plenty of opportunity to comment on the Antebellum South, racism and the American way. (USS371, $16.00)
The Founding of New Acadia • Carl A. Brasseaux HISTORY • 1996 • PAPER • 229 PAGES Early Acadian settlement and culture in Louisiana by respected Cajun historian Carl Brasseaux. (USS162, $20.95)
The Free People of Color of New Orleans, An Introduction • Mary Gehman CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1994 • PAPER An overview of the urbane, well educated and well-to-do French-speaking people of New Orleans, their interesting and important place in African-American history and rile in the identity of the Crescent City. (USS211, $8.95)
From Slavery to Freedom, A History of African Americans • John Hope Franklin HISTORY • 2000 • HARD COVER • 742 PAGES A classic history of the African American experience from ancient West African civilizations to the civil rights struggles of the 20th century. First published in 1947, and now in its eighth edition, this book has set the standard for comprehensive studies of the changing roles of Africans in the United States. (USA39, $75.00)
Galveston • Sean Stewart LITERATURE • 2001 • PAPER • 464 PAGES This enjoyable book is set in the near future, when a "flood of magic" has overridden the Gulf Coast city. Magical elements aside, though, a telling portrait of the city, its people and something of its collective conscience shines through. (TEX34, $14.95)
Galveston and the 1900 Storm • Elizabeth Hayes Turner • Patricial Bellis Bixel NATURAL HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 192 PAGES This fully illustrated volume covers the devastating Galveston storm and its long-lasting aftermath. The author collects eyewitness accounts and uses them to tell the story of the storm, the destruction in its wake and the rebuilding of the city. With 86 black-and-white phographs. (TEX01, $34.95)
Galveston Map • Rand McNally Maps MAP A road map of Galveston, Texas and vicinity at a scale of 1:34,000. Two Sides. 26x37 inches. (TEX27, $4.95)
The Galveston That Was • Peter H. Brink • Ezra Stoller • Henri Cartier-Bresson • Howard Barnstone ART & ARCHITECTURE • 1999 • HARD COVER • 248 PAGES With beautiful photographs procured by portrait photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and architect-photographer Ezra Stoller, this book displays Victorian homes within the context of Galveston's history. (TEX06, $49.95)
Galveston, A History • David G. McComb HISTORY • 1986 • PAPER • 267 PAGES The story of Galveston, covering its emergence as a major cotton port in the eighteenth century and the great storm of 1900. (TEX13, $24.95)
Galveston: A History of the Island • Gary Cartwright NATURAL HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 338 PAGES In this entertaining history, Cartwright traces Galveston from its first inhabitants, the Karankawa Indian tribe, to the present day Moodys, who own a two billion dollar enterprise. It's a superbly written, accessible historical study. (TEX05, $21.95)
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West • Albert Castel HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 300 PAGES A scholarly account of the life and career of a man who variously served as a general in the Mexican war, governor of Missouri -- and key figure in the Civil War as fought west of the Mississippi. Originally published in 1968. He includes chapters on Prices' activities from Kansas City to St. Louis, Shreveport and Vicksberg with chapters on Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Jenkin's Ferry and other battles. (USM37, $24.95)
Graceland, Going Home with Elvis • Karen Ann Marling CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1997 • PAPER • 258 PAGES A serious, engaging analysis of Graceland and the phenomenon of Elvis Presley. (USS191, $14.95)
Great Smoky Mountains, A Visitor's Companion • George Wuerthner • Douglas W. Moore GUIDEBOOK • 2003 • PAPER • 240 PAGES A compact guide to the history, wildlife, geology and tourism of the Great Smoky Mountains. (USE330, $19.95)
Gulf Coast Seashore Life, Alabama to Texas • Raymond Leung • James Kavanaugh FIELD GUIDE • 2001 • PLASTIC CARD This fold-out, laminated reference features illustrations of almost 150 species commonly found on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. This is a handy, sturdy guide to take along on a trip to the beach, from Mobile Bay to South Padre. (USS217, $5.95)
Gumbo Ya-Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales • Lyle Saxon • Edward Dreyer • Robert Tallant LITERATURE • 1987 • PAPER • 581 PAGES Collected here are charming, outrageous, time-honored, common, obscure, exotic and famous folk tales of Louisiana -- and especially of New Orleans. Originally published in 1945. (USS208, $22.00)
Hardluck Ironclad, The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo • Edwin C. Bearss HISTORY • 1980 • PAPER • 222 PAGES The story of the sinking of the "Cairo," a Union gunboat lost in the Yazoo River, paired with the story of its recovery, 100 years later. Civil War historian Edwin C. Bearss, who provided this firsthand account, was an integral part of the recovery. The "Cairo" can now be seen on display in Vicksburg. (WAR17, $23.95)
Huey Long • T. Harry Williams BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1981 • PAPER • 944 PAGES The definitive biography of the larger-than-life southern politician. The book won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. (USS348, $25.00)
The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times • William Wilmon Newcomb HISTORY • 1985 • PAPER • 404 PAGES Former director of the Texas Memorial Museum, William Newcomb presents this definitive reference to the Native Americans of Texas, detailing information on food, clothing, housing, religion, education, and social infrastructure. (TEX10, $24.95)
Inherit the Wind • Jerome Lawrence • Robert E. Lee LITERATURE • 1982 • PAPER • 129 PAGES A classic drama of a biology teacher accused of teaching evolution to his students, based on the events of the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. (USS180, $5.99)
Inside War, The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War • Michael Fellman HISTORY • 1990 • PAPER (USM36, $34.99)
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History • Erik Larson • Isaac Monroe Cline HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 336 PAGES A history of the events and people -- and especially Isaac Cline, head of the National Weather Service -- surrounding the monumental storm that devastated Galveston in 1900. (TEX03, $15.95)
Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand • Kenn Kaufman BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2006 • PAPER • 336 PAGES Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year. He tallied 671, impressive by any account and extraordinary if you count birds per buck. He did it all for $1,000. This cult classic was originally published in 1973. (BRD27, $14.95)
The Known World • Edward P. Jones LITERATURE • 2003 • PAPER • 432 PAGES Set in a fictitious Virginia county in the antebellum years, this great, Pulitzer-winning novel is a consideration of the wages of slavery and an avowal of the peculiar institution's primacy in the American psyche. Jones, after big game, invents a community in which both whites and well-to-do blacks own slaves. (Some free blacks in the South did own slaves, though never in the concentration portrayed here.) The result is a supremely humane, supremely just book about the slave-owning South and American history. (USS379, $24.95)
Literary New Orleans • Judy Long LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 290 PAGES • COMING IN A book that captures the great diversity of literature drawn from New Orleans culture, including French, Spanish, African and Caribbean influences. The anthology includes excerpts by William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain. (USS175, $16.95)
Lonely Planet New Orleans • Tom Downs • John T. Edge GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 280 PAGES This practical guide to New Orleans features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on accommodations and sightseeing. With color photographs, nine neighborhood maps and information on excursions to Baton Rouge, North Shore, Cajun Wetlands and River Road Ramble. (USS186, $18.99)
Louisiana / Mississippi Map • AAA Publishing MAP A clear, detailed traveler's map of the two southern states. (USS32, $4.95)
Louisiana Map • Rand McNally Maps MAP A colorful road map of Louisiana at a scale of 1:976,000. Two Sides. 27x36 inches. (USS263, $4.95)
Mammals of North America • Roland W. Kays • Don E. Wilson FIELD GUIDE • 2009 • PAPER • 248 PAGES A comprehensive guide by two noted mammalogists and featuring 108 color plates, illustrating 442 species. Range maps and descriptive text on ecology, habitat and behavior complement the wonderful paintings. (NAM11, $19.95)
Midnight Magic: Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason • Bobbi Ann Mason LITERATURE • 1999 • PAPER • 301 PAGES A good selection of Mason's stories, most set in the south. (USS193, $16.95)
The Mississippi River: Father of Waters • James L. Shaffer CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 2000 • PAPER • 128 PAGES This book in the Images of America series documents travel, trade and the history of the Mississippi in archival photographs and engravings. (USM114, $21.99)
The Most Southern Place on Earth, The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity • James C. Cobb HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER • 416 PAGES A social history of the Mississippi Delta and especially the influence of music, writing and black culture on its enduring traditions. (USS332, $19.95)
The Moviegoer • Walker Percy LITERATURE • 1961 • PAPER • 241 PAGES Walker Percy won the 1961 National Book Award for this novel, his masterpiece, which unfolds in New Orleans during a momentous Carnival week. It's a great book that we can recommend as much for its sheer readability as for its literary merit and palpable sense of place. It's a particular treat for anyone who's been to New Orleans, though, for Percy ticks off street names and neighborhoods with the assiduity of a guidebook -- and considerably more soul. (USS249, $14.95)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America • Jon Dunn FIELD GUIDE • 2011 • PAPER • 576 PAGES From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide published by the National Geographic Society, now in its sixth edition (with tabs!), is the one to carry. Practical to use in the field, it has maps, illustrations and descriptions of the birds on facing pages. The scale of the maps changes with the range of the bird, which means you get a more detailed regional map for those birds with a restricted range. This fully revised sixth edition, bigger and better than ever, includes 23 new species, 300 new illustrations, innovative migration and subspecies maps, and a handy quick-find visual index. (FG09, $27.95)
The National Trust Guide to New Orleans • Roulhac Toledano GUIDEBOOK • 1996 • PAPER • 236 PAGES An in-depth guide to the architectural heritage, culture and history of New Orleans. With chapters on historic preservation, neighborhood profiles and an introduction to the city's various architectural styles. With 180 archival photographs and maps. (USS98, $29.95)
Native Universe, Voices of Indian America • Clifford E. Trafzer ANTHOLOGY • 2008 • PAPER • 320 PAGES This anthology of personal and historical essays, as well as over 300 color illustrations of Native American art, is being published to accompany the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. It includes selections from several modern Native American writers, including Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie. (USA95, $22.00)
New Orleans Cemeteries, Life in the Cities of the Dead • Mason Florence • Robert Florence GUIDEBOOK • 2005 • HARD COVER • 211 PAGES A cultural history of New Orleans as seen through its often elaborate cemeteries and funerary ritual. The book concentrates on local culture, rather than the darker aspects of death and burial. (USS167, $29.95)
New Orleans Houses, A House-Watchers Guide • Lloyd Vogt GUIDEBOOK • 1985 • HARD COVER • 176 PAGES A compact guide to the architecture of New Orleans, including a chronology of styles, maps, 100 sketches and a glossary of architectural terms. (USS213, $24.95)
New Orleans Map • Borch Maps 2008 • MAP A folded, laminated map of the city center of New Orleans, at a scale of 1:11,000. Two Sides. 26x20 inches. (USS207, $7.95)
New Orleans, A Pictorial History • Leonard V. Huber CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1991 • HARD COVER • 384 PAGES .An homage to the Big Easy, with text and more than 1,000 illustrations. (USS212, $29.95)
The Night the War Was Lost • Charles L. Dufour HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER • 443 PAGES Charles Dufour contends that with the fall of New Orleans in the spring of 1862, the South had lost the Civil War. In explaining the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and its results, Dufour also explores a more personable aspect of the war: the people involved and their losses. (USS107, $25.00)
Off the Beaten Path Louisiana, A Guide to Unique Places • Gay N. Martin GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 208 PAGES A guide to unique local restaurants as well as some of Louisiana's less publicized attractions, such as swamp cruises and alligator farms. (USS398, $13.95)
One Writer's Beginnings • Eudora Welty BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1995 • PAPER • 104 PAGES The author's memoir of her childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was born in 1909. The three essays in this book originated as a lecture series at Harvard, and the book was a best seller on publication in 1984. (USS252, $16.50)
Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West • William L. Shea • Earl J. Hess HISTORY • 1997 • PAPER • 417 PAGES A richly detailed history of the March 1862 battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas, featuring 50 illustrations and 20 maps. It's a comprehensive, scholarly account of the civil war on the western frontier or Arkansas and Missouri. (USS182, $28.95)
Prisoners of War • Steve Yarbrough LITERATURE • 2004 • HARD COVER • 310 PAGES A complex, enormously satisfying tale of family, history and war set in rural Mississippi ini 1943. (USS349, $23.00)
Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories • Ronald J. Drez • David Eisenhower HISTORY • 2004 • HARD COVER • 64 PAGES • YOUNG ADULTS An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs, plenty of historical information, and an introduction by David Eisenhower which paints a personal portrait of his grandfather, Dwight. (USA96, $17.95)
Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul • Scott Weidensaul NATURAL HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 416 PAGES Weidensaul follows in the footsteps conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher in this homage to their 1953 journey, modern travelogue and eye-opening report on wilderness in America. (USA123, $16.00)
Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America • John M. Barry HISTORY • 1998 • PAPER • 524 PAGES The Mississippi flood of 1927 was the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States, killing thousands and forcing almost a million Southern residents out of their homes. This readable book tells the full story of the disaster and how it ultimately helped shape the nation we have today. It is a story of epic scope, delving deeply into the race relations, agriculture and politics of the time. (USS48, $18.00)
River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America • William Least Heat-Moon TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2001 • PAPER • 506 PAGES William Least Heat-Moon and a small crew travel westward across the rivers of America in a dual-outward boat named "River-Horse." (USM117, $16.00)
The River Queen • Mary Morris BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2008 • PAPER • 270 PAGES In part a memoir (Morris's difficult 103-year-old father had just died and she travels home to the Midwest partly to try to understand him), this book captures the rhythms, history and byways of the upper Mississippi (the journey ends in Paris Landing, Tennessee). An engaging travel companion, Morris (Nothing to Declare) seeks solace aboard a houseboat with Tom and Jerry (the crew). (USM115, $17.00)
Robert E. Lee • Roy Blount, Jr. BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2003 • HARD COVER • 224 PAGES A lively short biographical essay in the excellent Penguin Lives series, matching writers and subjects. (USS377, $19.95)
Roots • Alex Haley LITERATURE • 2007 • PAPER • 912 PAGES The 30th anniversary edition of Alex Haley's epic story of Kunta Kinte and his descendents. The tale begins in the Gambian village of Jufureh in 1750 and traces seven generations of one family, to tell the story of Africans in America. An engaging, powerful story of perseverance in times of slavery, it was made into one of the most popular television mini-series of all time. (WAF21, $17.95)
Sailing Ship Elissa • Jim Cruz • Patricia Bellis Bixel HISTORY • 1998 • HARD COVER • 144 PAGES • COMING IN A history of the Elissa, a fully restored barque that was originally built in Scotland. Now a major attraction at the Texas Seaport Museum, she has had a varied history, traveling through European waters, once even serving as vessel for smuggling cigarettes. (TEX09, $22.95)
Saratoga Trunk • Edna Ferber LITERATURE • 2000 • PAPER • 256 PAGES Set during the 1880s, this is the story of the scheming vixen Clio Dulaine who returns to New Orleans to blackmail her father's aristocratic family. Along the way she meets Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan cowboy who knows exactly how to ruffle her feathers. Ferber's novel was the basis for the 1945 film starring Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper. (USS122, $13.99)
Satchmo, My Life in New Orleans • Louis Armstrong • Dan Morgenstern BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1986 • PAPER • 256 PAGES Jazz great Louis Armstrong regales with tales of his youth in Louisiana. (USS230, $16.95)
Satchmo, The Genius of Louis Armstrong • Gary Giddins MUSIC • 2001 • PAPER • 224 PAGES A biography of jazz legend Louis Armstong, featuring a strong collection of photographs of the musician in all the phases of his storied career. (MUS35, $16.00)
Seven Story Mountain, The Union Campaign at Vicksburg • Phillip M. Thienel HISTORY • 1994 • PAPER • 259 PAGES A detailed account of the tactics, battlefield strategies, and bridge-building techniques used by General U.S. Grant's troops in their attempts to capture the town of Vicksburg. (USS157, $35.00)
Shantyboat: A River Way of Life • Harlan Hubbard TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 1977 • PAPER • 352 PAGES Hubbard and his wife built a 24-foot houseboat and lived on it for six years, eventually drifting downriver to New Orleans. (USS383, $22.00)
The Sound and the Fury • William Faulkner LITERATURE • 1990 • PAPER • 448 PAGES A disturbing story of suicide and incest, revolving around the beautiful Caddy Compson. A famous, and famously complex novel, told from the point of view of Caddy's three brothers. First published in 1929. (USS70, $14.00)
Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas • Ronald Wright HISTORY • 2004 • PAPER • 464 PAGES A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright's illuminating account, told largely from the point of view of the losers, details the rapid collapse of cultures and societies in the Americas following the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account, originally published in 1993. Wright is also the author of Time Among the Maya. (NAM20, $24.95)
Swapping Stories, Folktales from Louisiana • Carl Lindahl LITERATURE • 1997 • PAPER • 352 PAGES The culmination of a statewide storytelling project, this collection of over 200 tales includes personal narratives, myths, animal tales and political anecdotes. Tales originally told in a language other than English (such as Cajun and Creole French, Koasati and Spanish) are presented both in translation and the storyteller's language. (USS168, $25.00)
Through a Night of Horrors • Shelley Henley Kelley • Casey Edward Greene NATURAL HISTORY • 2000 • HARD COVER • 224 PAGES An extraordinary collection of letters, memoirs, and oral histories from the survivors of the catastrophic storm that hit Galveston in 1900 -- vividly detailed, poignant and touching. (TEX04, $24.95)
To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession • Dan Koeppel NATURAL HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 304 PAGES Ostensibly about birds and birdwatching, this enormously appealing book is a memoir by a talented writer of his father, a father who happens to be in the elite cadre of major birders. Dan Koeppel chronicles his father's growing interest in birds in this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Richard is a member of an elite group who have tallied more than 7,000 species. Koeppel includes his own travels tagging along and brief profiles of other eccentric listers. (BRD28, $14.00)
The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder • Peter Cashwell NATURAL HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 269 PAGES A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes. Along the way, Cashwell traces his own development from casual novice to life lister (with a desire to see all the birds of North America). (BRD26, $16.95)
Vicksburg Map • Universal Map Enterprises 2001 • MAP A folded road map of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Two Sides. 36x24 inches. (USS161, $4.95)
Vicksburg, 47 Days of Siege • A.A. Hoehling BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1996 • PAPER • 386 PAGES A history of the Vicksburg Campaign as told through the diaries and memoirs of both union and confederate eyewitnesses to the events. Hoehling, who has written widely on battles and wars, constructs a social history of the war from the point of view of actual participants, interspersing his own short commentary between diary excerpts. Originally published in 1969. (USS154, $19.95)
A Weekend in September • John Edward Weems HISTORY • 1988 • PAPER • 180 PAGES First published in 1957, this skillfully written book collects interviews from survivors of the worst natural disaster in US history -- the Galveston storm of 1900. The first person accounts vividly recreate the terrifying day. (TEX12, $13.95)
Wilson's Creek, The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It • Richard W. Hatcher, III • William Garrett Piston HISTORY • 2000 • HARD COVER • 408 PAGES A comprehensive, handsomely produced history of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, highlighting its significance in relation to the early events of the Civil War. The authors include site diagrams, photographs, scholarly notes, and suggestions for further reading. (USM10, $45.00)
Women and New Orleans, A History • Nancy Ries • Mary Gehman HISTORY • 2000 • PAPER • 144 PAGES A history of women in the Crescent City from Creole belles, Voodoo queens and nuns, to slave women and modern personalities. With 87 photographs. (USS215, $10.95)
Zydeco • Ben Sandmel • Rick Olivier MUSIC • 1999 • PAPER • 182 PAGES An excellent, handsomely illustrated tribute to zydeco, the dance music of Loiuisiana's black Creole community. It features 80 portraits of the people and places of this lively music scene. (USS176, $30.00)

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