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Louisiana
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanA 110-year-old African-American woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s. |
FIC GAI |
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Locked in TimeNore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place. |
FIC Dun |
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The HauntingWhen her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it. |
FIC Nix |
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RubyA young woman, raised by her grandparents in the bayous of Louisiana, clings to the love of a man whose parents forbid him to associate with her as she seeks out her father and learns of the deception |
FIC AND |
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The Awakening and Selected Short StoriesTells of a woman's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. |
SC CHO |
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Mules and MenA collection of African American folklore that has formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. |
398.2 HUR |
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A Lesson Before DyingTells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution. |
FIC GAI |
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A Gathering of Old MenBeau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation. The claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer. |
FIC GAI |
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RubyA young woman, raised by her grandparents in the bayous of Louisiana, clings to the love of a man whose parents forbid him to associate with her as she seeks out her father and learns of the deception |
FIC AND |
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Catherine CarmierAfter living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to Louisiana where African-Americans, Cajuns, and whites coexist uneasily. |
FIC GAI |
