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	Fabulous New Orleans  •  Lyle Saxon CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1989 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES First published in the 1920's, 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, $14.95)
	New Orleans Map  •   Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A folded, laminated map of the city center of New Orleans, at a scale of 1:11,000. (USS207, $7.95)

	Eyewitness Guide New Orleans  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A thorough, gorgeously illustrated guidebook. (USS305, $20.00)
	Lonely Planet New Orleans  •  Tom Downs  •  John T. Edge   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide to New Orleans features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on accommodations and sightseeing. (USS186, $18.99)
	New Orleans Cemeteries, Life in the Cities of the Dead  •  Mason Florence  •  Robert Florence   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A cultural history of New Orleans as seen through its often elaborate cemeteries and funerary ritual. (USS167, $29.95)
	New Orleans City Guide  •   Works Progress Administration   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN DECEMBER  •  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 Houses, A House-Watchers Guide  •  Lloyd Vogt   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide to the architecture of New Orlean with maps and 100 drawings. (USS213, $24.95)
	New Orleans Yesterday and Today, A Guide to the City  •  O.K. Le Blanc  •  Charles L. Dufour  •  John Chase  •  John Wilds  •  Walter G. Cowan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to New Orleans, its history, traditions and beauty. (USS170, $18.95)
	The National Trust Guide to New Orleans  •  Roulhac Toledano   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An in-depth guide to the architectural heritage, culture and history of New Orleans. With chapters on historic preservation, neighborhood profiles and an introduction to the city's various architectural styles. (USS98, $24.95)
	Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South  •  Virginia Meacham Gould   • HISTORY  •  Stories of the lives of Southern Black Women, told through personal letters and diaries. (USS134, $22.95)
	Folklife in Louisiana, Images of Tradition  •  Frank de Caro   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An exhibit catalog featuring 166 black-and-white photographs of work by local artists. (USS165, $31.95)
	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, $26.00)
	The Forgotten People, Cane River's Creoles of Color  •  Gary B. Mills   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A scholarly account of a Louisiana Creole community. (USS210, $20.95)
	The Free People of Color of New Orleans, An Introduction  •  Mary Gehman   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An interesting portrait of the creole "free people of color." (USS211, $8.95)
	Women and New Orleans, A History  •  Nancy Ries  •  Mary Gehman   • HISTORY  •  A history of women in the Crescent City from Creole belles, Voodoo queens, and nuns, to slave women and modern personalities. (USS215, $10.95)
	Gardens of New Orleans, Exquisite Excess  •  Jeanette Hardy  •  Lake Douglas  •  Richard Sexton   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A sumptuously photographed tour of the grander gardens of New Orleans. (USS231, $40.00)
	Feet on the Street, Rambles Around New Orleans  •  Roy Blount, Jr.   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Roy Blount Jr. captures perfectly the sights, savory smells, sounds and distinctive pleasures of New Orleans in this latest entry in the excellent Crown Journeys series. The book is organized as a series of eight wonderfully digressive, personal rambles through the city. (USS370, $16.95)
	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)
	New Orleans Stories, Great Writers on the City  •  John Miller  •  Andrei Codrescu   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of stories and essays about the Big Easy by some of America's best writers, including Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. (USS350, $14.95)
	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, $14.00)
	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, our self-serving, cowardly Victorian hero finds himself playing a role in the Civil War. (USS372, $15.00)
	Gumbo Ya-Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales  •  Robert Tallant  •  Edward Dreyer  •  Lyle Saxon   • LITERATURE  •  A wonderful collection of charming, outrageous, time-honored, common, obscure, exotic and famous folk tales of Louisiana -- and especially of New Orleans. (USS208, $19.95)
	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, $13.95)
	Swapping Stories, Folktales from Louisiana  •  Carl Lindahl   • LITERATURE  •  Two hundred tales as compiled by a statewide storytelling project. (USS168, $25.00)
	The Awakening  •  Kate Chopin  •  Marilynne Robinson   • LITERATURE  •  The 1899 novel that forever vanquished "feminine propriety." Chopin's exhilarating, tragic feminist novella sings with the Cajun and Creole cadences of her native New Orleans. (USS229, $4.95)
	The Moviegoer  •  Walker Percy   • LITERATURE  •  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 palpable sense of place. (USS249, $13.95)

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