New Orleans (La.) -- Biography
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- Mayor Victor H. Schiro, New Orleans in transition, 1961-1970, Edward F. Haas
- Tragedy is my parish, working for God in the streets of New Orleans, Peter V. Rogers
- Gustav Waldemar Nelson, his family in America and Denmark, by Delilah Stokes Foster
- Some notables of New Orleans, biographical and descriptive sketches of the artists of New Orleans, and their work, by May W. Mount
- Cooking with grease, stirring the pots in American politics, Donna Brazile
- A passion for sharing, the life of Edith Rosenwald Stern, by Gerda Weissmann Klein
- A love letter to New Orleans, by Irvin Mayfield ; foreword by Soledad O'Brien
- Stories from the St. Louis cemeteries of New Orleans, Sally Asher
- Witness to change, from Jim Crow to political empowerment, Sybil Haydel Morial ; foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young
- Born in New Orleans, notables of two centuries, presented by Al Rose
- Ignatius rising, the life of John Kennedy Toole, René Pol Nevils & Deborah George Hardy
- Rubble fever, by Robbi Pounds
- Dreams, [the Michael Lewis story], Micahel Lewis
- In the eye of the storm, surviving the aftermath, Steven M. Banka
- The lost German slave girl, the extraordinary true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom in old New Orleans, John Bailey
- Time's tapestry, four generations of a New Orleans family, Leta Weiss Marks
- Krazy, George Herriman, a life in black and white, Michael Tisserand
- My New Orleans, ballads to the Big Easy by her sons, daughters, and lovers, edited by Rosemary James
- Feet on the street, rambles around New Orleans, Roy Blount, Jr
- James Pitot, 1761-1831; a documentary study
- Reclamation, memories from a New Orleans girlhood, Eva Augustin Rumpf
- The Pitot House on Bayou St. John, by Samuel Wilson, Jr. ; photographs by Robert S. Brantley and Jan White Brantley
- Intimate enemies, the two worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba, Christina Vella
- The lost German slave girl, the extraordinary true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom in Old New Orleans, John Bailey
- Céline remembering Louisiana, 1850-1871, Céline Frémaux Garcia ; edited by Patrick J. Geary ; foreword by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- Getting off at Elysian Fields, a collection of obituaries from the Times-picayune, John Pope
- Nine lives, death and life in New Orleans, Dan Baum
- Blue Monday, Fats Domino and the lost dawn of rock 'n' roll, Rick Coleman
- How they did it, profiles of New Orleans entrepreneurs, by Sally Forman ; photography by Margaret Saer Beer ; foreword by Emeril Lagasse
- My bayou, New Orleans through the eyes of a lover, Constance Adler
- Misadventures of a New Orleans girl, selling the shoes without touching the feet : literary nonfiction, by Linda Yasnyi
- Dixie Bohemia, a French Quarter circle in the 1920s, John Shelton Reed
- Longstreet, the Confederate general who defied the South, Elizabeth R. Varon
- Two storms, prostate cancer and Katrina in New Orleans, Iain S. Baird
- The Pitot House, a landmark on Bayou St. John, by James Wade ; photographs by Robert S. Brantley and Jan White Brantley ; foreword by Eugene D. Cizek
- Longstreet, The Confederate General Who Defied the South., Elizabeth R Varon
- Renato Beluche, smuggler, privateer, and patriot, 1780-1860, Jane Lucas De Grummond
- Uptown/downtown, growing up in New Orleans, Elsie Martinez and Margaret LeCorgne ; introduction by Charles L. Dufour ; illustrations by Meg Barker
- My new orleans, gone awaya memoir of loss and renewal, Peter M. Wolf
- Longstreet, the Confederate general who defied the South, Elizabeth R. Varon
- Interim appointment, W.C.C. Claiborne letter book, 1804-1805, edited with biographical sketches by Jared William Bradley
- Enrique Alférez, sculptor, Katie Bowler Young
- Touch'd with madness, Hilton Howell Railey
- Travels with Mae, scenes from a New Orleans girlhood, Eileen M. Julien
- Love & war, twenty years, three presidents, two daughters and one Louisiana home, James Carville and Mary Matalin
- A New Orleans voudou priestess, the legend and reality of Marie Laveau, Carolyn Morrow Long
- Nine lives, death and life in New Orleans, Dan Baum
- Sacred ground, the cemeteries of New Orleans, Robert S. Brantley ; introduction by S. Frederick Starr
- Witness to change, from Jim Crow to political empowerment, by Sybil Haydel Morial ; foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young
- The photojournalism of Del Hall, New Orleans and beyond, 1950s-2000s, Richard Campanella
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