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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $57, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSS120)		  
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)		   Eyewitness Guide New Orleans
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)		   Fabulous New Orleans
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)		   The Moviegoer
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 Map



Also Recommended

Frommer's New Orleans Day by Day  •  Frommer's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact guide, ideal for a shorter visit, features excellent suggestions for everything from food, hotels and nightlife to neighborhood walks and shopping. With a foldout map. (USS462, $12.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet New Orleans Encounter  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With a section of not-to-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map. (USS442, $14.99)
 		  
New Orleans City Guide  •  Works Progress Administration   • GUIDEBOOK  •  In 1938, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration compiled this comprehensive guidebook, including the history and heritage of New Orleans alongside numerous city attractions. With a huge collection of photographs and illustrations of the city's people and places. (USS413, $18.95)
 		  
New Orleans Streets  •  Stephanie Bruno   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The best of the New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Bruno's City Streets. (USS486, $15.95)
 		  
Obituary Cocktail, The Great Saloons of New Orleans  •  Kerri McCaffety   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A photographic tribute and history. (USS516, $35.00)
 		  
The National Trust Guide to New Orleans  •  Roulhac Toledano   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An in-depth guide to the architectural heritage, culture and history of beloved New Orleans. With chapters on historic preservation, neighborhood profiles and an introduction to the city's distinctive architectural styles. (USS98, $29.95)
 		  
Very New Orleans, A Celebration of History, Culture, And Cajun Country Charm  •  Diana Hollingsworth Gessler   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This quirky guide, illustrated with the author's charming watercolors, captures the charm and allure of New Orleans. (USS428, $16.95)
 		  
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City  •  Jed Horne   • HISTORY  •  Editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Horne weaves eyewitness accounts and on-the-spot reporting into an unforgettable chronicle of disaster. (USS474, $16.00)
 		  
Coming Back, New Orleans Resurgent  •  Mario Tama   • HISTORY  •  Tama documents the city's struggle to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina in striking color photographs. With a forward by news anchor Anderson Cooper, who has devoted much time and energy to the Gulf Coast region. (USS496, $45.00)
 		  
New Orleans, A Cultural History  •  Louise Mckinney   • HISTORY  •  One in a growing series of well-informed histories, this book, organized by neighborhood, is perfect for travelers interested in the social and cultural foundation of the Big Easy. (USA158, $24.99)
 		  
New Orleans, A Pictorial History  •  Leonard V. Huber   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A visual homage to the Big Easy, with text and more than 1,000 illustrations. (USS212, $29.95)
 		  
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast  •  Douglas Brinkley   • HISTORY  •  In his New York Time Bestseller, Brinkley allows the survivors of Hurricane Katrina to tell their story in compelling detail. He documents the tragedy and its aftermath for the city and surrounding 150 miles of coastline, government mismanagement and the heroes who emerged. (USS469, $17.95)
 		  
The World That Made New Orleans, From Spanish Silver to Congo Square  •  Ned Sublette   • HISTORY  •  Sublette (Cuba and its music) charts the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century from European colonization through the Haitian revolution (crucial to French and American negotiations over Louisiana). (USS498, $16.95)
 		  
When the Levees Broke  •  Spike Lee   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A requiem in four parts, Spike Lee's collection of heartbreaking personal stories and documentary footage, set against ravishing jazz music by Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis and others, exposes the divisions of race and class in 21st-century America. (USS430, $19.98)
 		  
City of Dreams, A Collection of New Orleans Music  •  Rounder Records   • MUSIC  •  The definitive overview of Rounder's soulful, eclectic New Orleans catalog, featuring such iconic Crescent City names as Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, as well as lesser-known but exciting artists such as Chuck Carbo and Eddie Bo. (USS431, $32.98)
 		  
Historic Buildings of the French Quarter  •  Lloyd Vogt   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Architect Vogt documents New Orleans's 66-block Vieux Carre, highlighting 60 noteworthy buildings from the French colonial, Spanish, Federal, Antebellum and Victorian periods. (USS468, $24.95)
 		  
Jazz, A History of America's Music  •  Geoffrey C. Ward  •  Ken Burns   • MUSIC  •  Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music -- jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New Orleans and quickly embraced in urban centers throughout the nation, jazz celebrates American individualism and creativity at its best. (MUS79, $35.00)
 		  
Bayou, Farewell  •  Mike Tidwell   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Tidwell introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes Louisian's Cajun Coast unlike any other place. (USS491, $16.00)
 		  
Satchmo, My Life in New Orleans  •  Louis Armstrong  •  Dan Morgenstern   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Jazz great Louis Armstrong regales with tales of his youth in Louisiana. (USS230, $16.95)
 		  
The House on First Street, My New Orleans Story  •  Julia Reed   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Reed describes with self-deprecating wit her return to New Orleans and a Garden District home just prior to Katrina and her shared efforts with locals to recover and rebuild. (USS429, $13.99)
 		  
A Confederacy of Dunces  •  John Kennedy Toole   • LITERATURE  •  The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, drenched in New Orleans color and culture. Its sharp humor, combined with vivid local detail, makes it great reading for any visitor to New Orleans. (USS02, $15.00)
 		  
Cajun and Creole Folktales, The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana  •  Barry Jean Ancelet   • LITERATURE  •  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. (USS152, $25.00)
 		  
Flash for Freedom  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  In this fifth installment in the rollicking series, set largely in New Orleans, our self-serving, cowardly Victorian hero 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. (USS372, $16.00)
 		  
Gumbo Ya-Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales  •  Lyle Saxon  •  Edward Dreyer  •  Robert Tallant   • LITERATURE  •  A wonderful collection of charming, outrageous, time-honored, common, obscure, exotic and famous folk tales of Louisiana -- and especially of New Orleans. (USS208, $22.00)
 		  
Island Beneath the Sea  •  Isabel Allende   • LITERATURE  •  Isabel Allende turns to Haiti (then called Saint-Domonigue) in the tumultuous years surrounding the 1791 slave revolt, and New Orleans at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, in this richly atmospheric novel. She places a strong-willed woman, the slave and concubine Zarite, at the center of her multi-generational saga, which among its many pleasures, includes marvelous descriptions of Creole life in New Orleans. (USS464, $26.99)
 		  
Lives of the Saints, A Novel  •  Nancy Lemann   • LITERATURE  •  A native of New Orleans, Lemann chronicles the lives and loves of the city's eccentric -- and gin-soaked -- bluebloods in this hilarious debut novel. (USS466, $17.95)
 		  
More of This World or Maybe Another  •  Barb Johnson   • LITERATURE  •  The gritty, dazzling debut collection by New Orleans writer and carpenter Johnson. These nine interconnected stories follow four unlikely friends through the backstreets of New Orleans. (USS471, $13.99)
 		  
Saratoga Trunk  •  Edna Ferber   • LITERATURE  •  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. (USS122, $13.99)
 		  
The Keepers of the House  •  Shirley Ann Grau   • LITERATURE  •  Winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize, Gau's searing novel exposes the hypocrisy and racism of New Orleans society. (USS465, $16.00)
 		  
 
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