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Download or read book The Big Easy written by James Conaway and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of violence and racial strife set in New Orleans is full of social and physical contrasts. Comiski, a newspaper reporter, descends into an underworld of corrupt policemen, narcotics dealers and black militants in an attempt to unravel a mysterious grave-robbing and find some meaning in his own life. Powerful and compelling. (Originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin) St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Grim, gripping, violent and practically impossible to put down." Publisher's Weekly: "The scene is unglamorous New Orleans - decay, dirt, garbage... smell, every kind of filth, human and animal, in a brief, well-written novel of hopeless degradations that has a unique impact." Library Journal: "A short- fast-paced and absorbing novel... that probes deeply into the texture of the contemporary South, and entertains from first page to last."
Download or read book Big Easy written by Eric Wilder and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone is killing New Orleans street people, and it's hurting the city's tourist trade beginning to recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. More than murder, voodoo is involved, the killer possibly an actual Vodoun deity. Wyatt Thomas, the French Quarter's favorite P.I., is forced to respond, or to die.
Book Synopsis Creating the Big Easy by : Anthony J. Stanonis
Download or read book Creating the Big Easy written by Anthony J. Stanonis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure. Stanonis looks at the importance of urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, and convention marketing to New Orleans' makeover and chronicles the city's efforts to domesticate its jazz scene, "democratize" Mardi Gras, and stereotype local blacks into docile, servile roles. He also looks at depictions of the city in literature and film and gauges the impact on New Orleans of white middle-class America's growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, and tolerance of women in public spaces once considered off-limits. Visitors go to New Orleans with expectations rooted in the city's "past": to revel with Mardi Gras maskers, soak up the romance of the French Quarter, and indulge in rich cuisine and hot music. Such a past has a basis in history, says Stanonis, but it has been carefully excised from its gritty context and scrubbed clean for mass consumption.
Download or read book Big, Easy Style written by Bryan Batt and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting space that’s truly unique calls for a sense of humor, whimsy, and an open mind. From a charmed New Orleans childhood to a successful acting career on Broadway and the award-winning TV show Mad Men to the opening of his popular Big Easy home furnishings boutique, Hazelnut, Bryan Batt has always turned to home design as a creative outlet. To him, the best rooms are unexpected yet refined and, above all, evoke emotion. He doesn’t think twice about hanging oversized decorations from a Mardi Gras float in an elegant dining room or bringing home vintage etchings of sconces when he was actually shopping for real ones. He believes that a vibrant orange wall can be a neutral backdrop for an antique writing desk and earthy accessories, and that an artist’s whimsical bird’s nest sculpture hung in a lavender entryway couldn’t serve as a better welcome into a cozy abode. New Orleans has taught Bryan so much about how to pull together a space that’s fearless and colorful with plenty of panache. With the city as his muse—its strong roots in history, its celebration of tradition, and, of course, the wild festivities of Mardi Gras—he believes that designing a fabulous, livable home that truly reflects a dweller’s passions need not be intimidating. Big, Easy Style showcases rooms that make Bryan smile, with pages of rich photography featuring the work of many designers—and plenty of Crescent City interiors—framed by his own entertaining maxims on color, pattern, collecting, living areas, intimate spaces, and more. Explore rooms he’s personally designed and others that inspire him; from an old-world kitchen imported straight from the heart of France to a luxurious Art Deco media room, these homes are enticing and unique, and through their surprising details, completely inviting. Decorating your home to reflect your personality and taste takes practice and patience and can be a daunting undertaking, but Bryan proposes that we not worry about making mistakes, that any decision we make is better than no decision at all. With Big, Easy Style, learn how to put aside your hesitation and surrender to the wild side of home design for a big statement that’s easy to achieve. "You’ll love his collection of photographs of beautiful New Orleans rooms layered with his design tips and anecdotes of his own design experiences."—Southern Living "[Big, Easy Style] reads like a hard-copy extension of Batt's personality--elegant, gregarious, funny, showman-like. The rooms he's chosen to showcase are painstakingly designed, yet, in that enviable way, appear so easily tossed together."— Susan Langenhennig, The Times Picayune "With great passion and a zest for creativity, [Bryan Batt] and Katy Danos offer thoughtful tips on color, collecting, patterns and much more along the way. Kerri McCaffety captures the beauty of each room in her inviting photographs. I love Batt's unique whimsy style. How many of us would think of placing giant decorations from a Mardi Gras float in a lavish dining room? Or how about hanging an ornate crystal chandelier in the kitchen? Or what about painting a Chippendale-style chair mellow yellow. But they all work!"—Jeryl Brunner, Stylist.com "If you've missed Bryan Batt since he left the set of Mad Men in 2009 (he played Salvatore Romano), catch up with him in a decor ode to his hometown: New Orleans. [In Big, Easy Style], we're treated to his vision of making rooms inviting, festive and ultimately setting the foundation for entertaining, which is what this get-down town is all about."—San Francisco Chronicle "The book is full of Batt's tips. It's like spending an afternoon with someone who you'd like to watch decorate a home."-- Karen Dalton-Beninato, Huffington Post Books
Author :Heather Graham Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781979106702 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Big Easy Evil written by Heather Graham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween in the Big Easy . . . Does evil really exist? Michael Quinn and Danni Cafferty are far too familiar with the question. At the death of her father, Danni inherited his house and shop on Royal Street in New Orleans-and much more than she ever anticipated, including a book kept by her family for generations on how to combat the most unusual forces. As Halloween approaches, Quinn is already nervous-he knows what the season can bring. Even as Danni tries to convince him that very good things can happen as well, a man arrives in their kitchen, seeking their very special assistance. Sean DeMille is a lover of decoration and costume-and all things Halloween-until the body of a murdered man shows up in the midst of his backyard 'cemetery.' With an axe in his head. Could the infamous Axe-man of New Orleans have found his way back after nearly a century? Or is just the insidious at work, a spirit or demon filtering into an object or a person and creating the mayhem all over again? With the help of their odd team, Danni and Quinn must find the truth behind the strange happenings haunting the city-lest they fall prey to that very strange evil themselves.
Download or read book Besh Big Easy written by John Besh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besh Big Easy: 101 Home-Cooked New Orleans Recipes, is a fresh and delightful new look at John Besh's signature food. Besh Big Easy will feature all new recipes, published in a refreshing new flexibound format and accessible to cooks everywhere.
Book Synopsis Cops and Characters in The Big Easy by : Gene Fields
Download or read book Cops and Characters in The Big Easy written by Gene Fields and published by Bogart Books. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Fields spent 35 years of his adult life in law enforcement in the Metro New Orleans area. For 19 years, he served on the New Orleans Police Department beginning in 1961. In 1980, he retired, accepting a Deputy Chief with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. He retired again in 1995. This book chronicles Gene's memoirs, providing a compilation of criminal investigations, unusual incidents, terrorism, and humorous stories involving Gene, his friends and co-workers, and the occassional celebrity. Gene relives dramatic changes within the NOPD. He served the city during a transition period, as veteran officers who joined after WWII and the Korean War, retired, and a new, more ambitious breed, replaced them. Some of these recruits were better educated and more diverse. What you will read in this book is factual and supported by police reports, news clippings, and most importantly, the recollections of those involved in the stories. Some names have been changed to protect the identities and prevent unnecessary embarrassment. Some people may be aggravated or insulted by how they are described in certain cases, but Gene stands by his accounts, and the read is a fascinating one.
Book Synopsis Mr. New Orleans by : Matthew Randazzo V
Download or read book Mr. New Orleans written by Matthew Randazzo V and published by Mrv Entertainment LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wiseguys called him "the Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as "one of the most notorious vice operators in the history of New Orleans" ... but you can just call him MR. NEW ORLEANS. Mr. New Orleans tells the incredible story of Frenchy Brouillette, a redneck Cajun teenager who stole his big brother's motorcycle and embarked on a 60-year vacation to New Orleans, where he became a legendary gangster and the underworld political fixer for his cousin, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards. Written by Crescent City native Matthew Randazzo V, the wickedly funny Mr. New Orleans is the first book to ever break the code of secrecy of the New Orleans Mafia Family, the oldest and most mysterious criminal secret society in America. "Mr. New Orleans is a rollicking, disturbing ride through the underbelly of a bygone New Orleans, lined with moments of dark, side-splitting hilarity. If you're a fan of James Lee Burke, drop what you're reading and pick this one up. In an era when popular wisdom tells us T.V. has stolen all depth from the literary true-crime narrative, Matthew Randazzo has found a way to beat that trend mightily; he's gone straight to the source and captured the singular, confounding voice of the New Orleans' mafia's top political fixer with fast-paced, riveting prose and a fine journalist's eye for detail." Chris Rice, New York Times Bestselling Author "Mr. New Orleans is a total knockout: Take everything you ever imagined about the sleazy good times to be had in New Orleans -- the sleazy good times capital of America -- and quadruple it, and you have a hint of what's inside these sticky pages." Bill Tonelli, Author of The Italian American Reader and Editor for Esquire and Rolling Stone
Book Synopsis Belles Take the Big Easy by : Alicia Lane Dutton
Download or read book Belles Take the Big Easy written by Alicia Lane Dutton and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belles Take the Big Easy6F 2MUnit SetFull length comedyBy Alicia Lane DuttonFive women travel from Alabama to New Orleans to strike Mardi Gras off their bucket list. At a flamboyant designer's French Quarter boutique, the ladies film an episode of Celeste's new web series, "Say Yes to Anything but A Wedding Dress." Out of Flovilla, Alabama, and now out of control, Regina is ready to cut loose at the slightest opportunity, including getting the go signal at the crosswalk. Uptight Catherine has a new lease on life after her ex-husband drops a bomb shell which has her and the other ladies celebrating with more than coffee and beignets at Café du Monde. At the famed Bacchus Mardi Gras Ball, a fortune teller delivers some disturbing news which sets the ladies on a journey with Marie the Merry Maid, who Celeste believes is VooDoo Queen Marie Laveau reincarnated. After a stop at The Old Absinthe House, the six ladies make their way through the French Quarter and the St. Louis Cemetery to collect the items needed to ward off a perceived curse. With additional adventures on The Cajun Critters Swamp Tour, and at a day spa with a python massage on the menu, the ladies take The Big Easy as only they can.
Book Synopsis Healthy Eating the Big Easy Way by : Larry Holden
Download or read book Healthy Eating the Big Easy Way written by Larry Holden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dying Hard in the Big Easy by : Rod Sanford
Download or read book Dying Hard in the Big Easy written by Rod Sanford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lemon Boy Phillips, of Paladin Security, provided protection and crowd management. The Lemon Boy tag was a childhood reference to his complexion and freckles. Then Lola Montclaire strolled back into his life. In New Orleans, bluesman Blind Billy Brown was planning a concert in the Ninth Ward, and he called Old School performers to come home, including Lola, her nephew MC TruLuv, and her security, Lemon Boy, but it wouldn't be N'awlins without controversy. Billy's concert was taking place at the same time as the famous New Orleans Jazz Revival. Secondly, the lead act at the revival was TruLuv's enemy, MC "OOO-WEE," a rapper whose music is only overshadowed by his drunken violence. Then MC OOO-WEE was found dead, and his girlfriend Alexis was found floating in the Mississippi. THAT WAS A MISTAKE, KILLING THEM ON LEMON BOY'S WATCH! Evidence pointed to someone from Blind Billy's concert. The police were eager to make an arrest. Lemon Boy had to make sure it's the right person. With the help of his staff, Terri, Bobby Sr. and Bobby Jr., he will solve the case of: Dying Hard in the Big Easy!
Book Synopsis Bad Karma In The Big Easy by : D.J. Donaldson
Download or read book Bad Karma In The Big Easy written by D.J. Donaldson and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the dead in the water after hurricane Katrina are three nude bodies, none with water in their lungs. There’s a killer on the loose. Also, the bodies were once frozen, obliterating key forensic clues. Broussard and Franklyn embark on a dangerous journey through New Orleans; leading them to a kind of evil that neither of them could imagine.
Book Synopsis Finding My Way Back to the Big Easy by : Jeanne Marie Quinn
Download or read book Finding My Way Back to the Big Easy written by Jeanne Marie Quinn and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy by : Glenn A. Chambers
Download or read book From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy written by Glenn A. Chambers and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy focuses on the immigration of West Indians and Central Americans—particularly those of British West Indian descent from the Caribbean coastal areas—to New Orleans from the turn of the twentieth century to the start of World War II. Glenn A. Chambers discerns the methods by which these individuals of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds integrated into New Orleans society and negotiated their distinct historical and ethnoracial identities in the Jim Crow South. Throughout this study, Chambers explores two central questions: What did it mean to be “West Indian” within a context in which the persons migrating—or their parents, in some cases—were not born in the West Indies? And how did Central Americans grapple with this “West Indian” cultural identity when their political identity (citizenship) was Honduran, Costa Rican, or Panamanian? Chambers maintains that a distinct West Indian culture did not emerge in New Orleans. Rather, newly arrived West Indian practices intertwined with existing African American traditions, a process intensified in New Orleans’s established climate of incorporating, and often absorbing, new peoples and cultures. The West Indian population in early twentieth-century New Orleans was truly transnational, multinational, multilingual, diasporic, and constantly evolving. These newcomers to New Orleans remained conscious of their West Indian roots but were not bound by them. Their experiences spanned nations but were not politically internationalist, as was the case with the larger West Indian communities in the northeastern United States. The ways in which individuals and families transitioned into U.S. constructions of race were at times the result of conscious decisions. In other instances, race was determined by the realities of everyday life in the Jim Crow South, in which whiteness translated into access and opportunity and all other ethnicities were relegated to a subordinate position. Many West Indians and Central Americans impacted by this system learned to navigate it in such a way that their ethnic and national identity all but disappeared from the historical record. Through an analysis of arrest records, ships’ passenger records, foreign consulate reports, draft registrations, declarations of intent to apply for citizenship, naturalization applications, and city directories, Chambers recovers the lives of a small but significant population of immigrants who challenged the racial status quo.
Book Synopsis Secret Of The Big Easy by : Robin Murphy
Download or read book Secret Of The Big Easy written by Robin Murphy and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Marie Bartek is struggling to gain control over her new psychic abilities while attending a veterinarian conference in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Marie's recent visions prompt her to work with local police and members of the Sullivan's Island Paranormal Society team to help solve a succession of heinous murders, while fighting against a demon from taking over her mind. Secret Of The Big Easy is the second book in Robin Murphy's mystery series with Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team.
Book Synopsis Sin in The Big Easy by : Elizabeth McCourt
Download or read book Sin in The Big Easy written by Elizabeth McCourt and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven-year-old Abby Callahan moved to New Orleans to escape her past screw-ups in her small hometown. While out running, she sees a woman who had been raped and discarded, like trash. Abby finds herself selfishly pursuing the case to help her career, even though the victim is reluctant. The trial starts, the judge is suddenly arrested, but Abby is pulled back to New York when her father commits suicide. Managing her grief and complicated family dynamics, she tries both to rekindle and remedy her old romances. But she is pulled back to The Big Easy when her client goes missing. As more girls turn up dead—with Abby as their common connection—Abby decides to play detective with her journalist friend Jill Lejeune. Abby feels responsible to find her client alive, even as she comes to terms with her past mistakes, including how her lies allowed someone else to go to prison. Abby discovers she’s in over her head when Jill is beaten because she’s been mistaken for Abby. She wonders if everyone in her life is connected to this case. Abby seems to be the only one committed to finding the truth and decides to stop listening to everyone before she ends up at the morgue. A last-ditch call to the FBI and a rendezvous at the shipping warehouse lead Abby to one last dangerous situation where she finds out betrayal was in front of her the whole time.
Book Synopsis Mr. Spotty Visits The Big Easy by : Margaret Durlach
Download or read book Mr. Spotty Visits The Big Easy written by Margaret Durlach and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book When Miss Janet and her friend Miss Pat get the winter time blues, they decide to plan a trip to the Big Easy, and Mr. Spotty is brought along for the trip! Enjoy the sights and sounds through the eyes of a dog as he explores all the fun things the French Quarter has to offer! About the Author Margaret Durlach is a retired marketing person turned writer. She has written jingles, poetry, and now short stories. She loves to make people smile and laugh. Durlach has written business plans and an article with a colleague that was translated into forty different languages. She has several degrees and loves to paint watercolors of landscapes and animals, as well as being a foodie and a voracious reader. Her favorite saying is from Reba McIntyre: “You need three things in life: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”
