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NEW ORLEANS,
Louisiana
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$24.00
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Bradley, John Ed,
MY JULIET.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Doubleday.
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My Juliet tells the story of a struggling artist, Sonny LaMott, and his obsessive
love for Juliet Beauvais, who is Thanatos and Eros all
balled up into one nasty,
irresistible package. Juliet returns to New Orleans after her years as an
"actress" in California, thinking that her mother is about to die and that she
will inherit the family mansion. But Juliet discovers she's been tricked by her
mother, so this most fatale of femmes seeks out the
damaged Sonny, who still
can't resist her fifteen years after she crushed his heart. With ease,
Juliet
seduces him anew, nefarious purposes in mind.
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$23.00
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Hall, Barbara,
A SUMMONS TO NEW ORLEANS.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Simon & Schuster, 286
pages.
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Drawn from the author's own experience, A Summons to New Orleans
is a wonderfully written and beautifully crafted novel of three women and
their fateful reunion that propels each one to search her past -- together
their shocking revelations test the true limits of loyalty, friendship and trust.
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$14.00
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Hiss, Elizabeth Starr,
THE BANJO PLAYER.
NEW copy. Viking Books, 197 pages.
In 1888, adopted by a farming couple outside of New Orleans, twelve-year-old
orphan Jonathan must choose between security and the excitement of performing as
a musician along the river. Ages 10 to 14.
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$21.00
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Lochte, Dick,
THE NEON SMILE.
NEW copy. Hardcover with
dust jacket. Simon & Schuster, 332 pages.
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When Terry Manion, the New Orleans private investigator
introduced in Blue
Bayou, agrees to work for Pierre Reynaldo, the king of
exploitation TV, he
doesn't have a clue about what he's getting into. Reynaldo
wants to reopen a
case the police slammed shut thirty years ago - the
racially motivated murder of
Tyrone Pano, a black militant leader. But the more Manion
learns about the case,
the more personal it becomes. Both Manion's father and his
revered mentor, J. J.
Legendre, had ties to Pano that might have been better left
buried. The Neon
Smile takes the reader back to 1965, a fateful year
for J. J. Legendre. It is
then that Legendre, a young and cynical homicide detective,
tackles both the
Pano case and a series of brutal murders committed by a
killer as clever as he
is cold-blooded. Each victim is found with a voodoo doll,
the signature
previously employed by a nineteenth-century murderer
known as the "Meddler".
Legendre connects past and present to end the Meddler's
new reign of terror. But
things are never what they seem in the Big Easy, and
three decades later Manion
must make a couple of connections his mentor missed -
between the Meddler
killings and the Pano case, between the violent unrest of
the sixties and
today's more subtle racial politics.
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$15.95
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[Rice] Joy Dickinson,
HAUNTED CITY.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Citadel Press.
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This newly updated guide offers a walking tour of all New Orleans hotels, grave sites, streets, and places mentioned or evoked in Anne Rice's novels. Maps & photos.
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$19.95
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[Rice] Jana Marcus,
IN THE SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE: Reflections from the World of Anne Rice.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Publishers Group West. Introduction by Katherine Ramsland. Photographs.
~~~Anne Rice has single-handedly re-popularized the vampire genre for a massive international audience of every age and social class. In The Shadow of the Vampire offers a close up view of her devotees and disciples, fangs and all. Over 100 photographs from Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans as well as other events serve as a portrait of this growing subculture. The photographs illustrate the themes the readers relate to in their fantasies and everyday lives and the extremes to which they will go to be close to their mentor. The subjects of the photographs, the fans themselves, explain in accompanying interviews their spiritual relationships to romance, eroticism, loneliness, bloodlust or outsider status of the characters in the book. From the people who sleep in coffins to the teenage Goth-rockers to the HIV-positive man who found a deep allegorical comfort in the vampire Lestat, their responses range from the burlesque to the sublime.
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$13.00
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Rice, Christopher,
A DENSITY OF SOULS.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Miramax Books, 307 pages.
~~~ A Density Of Souls is the story of four high school friends in present-day New
Orleans who are torn apart by envy, passion, and a secret murder. Meredith,
Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between
friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new allegiances.
Brandon and Greg gain popularity as football jocks and Meredith joins the
bulimic in-crowd, while Stephen is treated as an outcast and is the target of
homophobia. Then two violent deaths disrupt the core of what they once shared.
Five years later the friends are drawn back together and what was held to be a
tragic accident is discovered to be murder. Other secrets begin to unravel and
the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten
an entire city.
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$22.00
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Welty, Eudora,
THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.
Book-of-the-Month-Club. NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 180 pages.
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Laurel McKelva Hand, a war widow in her mid-forties who has left the South and
returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father, a prominent retired
judge, is undergoing surgery for a "little disturbance" in his vision. After her
father's sudden but not completely unexpected death, Laurel and her slightly
younger and very self-absorbed stepmother, Fay, go back still farther, to Mount
Salus, the small Mississippi town where Laurel grew up, for Judge McKelva's
funeral, a raucous affair attended by many family friends and Fay's Texas
relatives. But afterward, while spending time in her childhood home, now
inhabited only by brash and unpolished Fay, with whom she battles over a damaged
breadboard that had once belonged to her dad mother, Laurel finally comes to an
understanding of the past, her parents, her marriage, and herself.
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NEW YORK,
New York
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$14.95
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Buff, Sheila,
NATURE WALKS IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY.
NEW copy.
TRADE PAPERBACK, Appalachian Mountain Club, 350
pages.
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Dozens of easily accessible getaways in near-to-home locations with detailed
descriptions, photographs and maps, expert notes on flora and fauna, driving
and parking instruction, history, anecdotes, and useful suggestions. Discover
more than 40 self-guided nature walks in parks and preserves from Central Park
to Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester, and more. The nature to be found is
astounding - special emphasis on bird-watching.
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$55.00
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Butler, Rev. John,
CHURCHYARDS OF TRINITY PARISH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1657 - 1969.
NY: Corporation of Trinity Church, 1969. VG--
(light rubbing to wrappers). TRADE PAPERBACK;
illustrations; scarce. 1st (of this) edition.
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$35.00
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Gray, Christopher, and Suzanne Braley,
NEW YORK STREETSCAPES: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buildings and Landmarks.
NEW copy.
TRADE Oversized PAPERBACK, Harry N. Abrams, 447 pages.
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Christopher Gray's engaging tales of historic Gotham locales transport
readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York.
The noted
architectural historian, who writes the popular "Streetscapes" column
in The New
York Times, here gathers 190 of the best-loved of those columns to
captivate readers with his wealth of information about sites and
buildings and the intriguing lives of the people connected to them. From the Bridge Cafe (New
York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary
War-era
Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on
both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his witty, urbane
essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph. Gray's
vast enthusiasm and love
for New York's vast architecture is evident in all that he writes, as
is his concern for the preservation of the city's architectural
treasures.
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$17.95
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Hopkinson, Deborah,
SHUTTING OUT THE SKY: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1915.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Orchard Books, 133
pages. (children's book)
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Acclaimed author Hopkinson recounts the lives of five immigrants to New
York's Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative.
We hear Romanian-born Marcus Ravage's disappointment when his aunt
pushes him outside to peddle chocolates on the street. And about the
pickle cart lady who stored her pickles in a rat-infested basement. We
read Rose Cohen's terrifying account of living through the Triangle
Shirtwaist fire, and of Pauline Newman's struggles to learn English.
But through it all, each one of these kids keeps working,
keeps hoping, to achieve their own American dream. Ages 8-12.
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$27.00
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Kessner, Thomas,
CAPITAL CITY: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Simon & Schuster, 396
pages.
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We take it for granted today that New York City is the nation's financial capital.
But why New York? Why not Boston or Philadelphia, Baltimore or Charleston - or any
other East Coast cities? In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of how an
undistinguished port city rose to become the center of finance in the United States
- and the world.
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$29.95
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Monkkonen, Eric H.,
MURDER IN NEW YORK CITY.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, University of California Press, 238
pages.
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Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban
homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's
unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's big city,
combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other documentary sources
to tease out the story behind the figures.
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$50.00
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Sagalyn, Lynne B.,
TIMES SQUARE ROULETTE: Remaking the City Icon.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, MIT Press, 620
pages.
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The compelling story of the politics, policies, and
personalities that made
Times Square's revitalization possible.
~~~ Currently in print at $59.95.
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$22.50
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Wolfman, Ira,
JEWISH NEW YORK: A Guide to a 350-year-old Community.
NEW copy.
Hardcover with dust jacket, Universe Publishing, 93
pages.
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A beautifully illustrated guide to Jewish life in the metropolis: Jewish New York
celebrates Jewish life in New York City from the seventeenth century to the
present, through a selection of photographs, memorabilia, souvenirs,
manuscripts, postcards, maps, and much more.
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