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Rain Gods (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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Bitterroot (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil
War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of
characters - enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and
battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers - are caught in the
maelstrom In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the
Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and
Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray,
corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women
are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved
woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she
goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist
schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers
that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he
observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to
his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured
by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed
narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal
encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with
Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged
colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an
unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that
reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose
"evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder"
(Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana
landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy
saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and
the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and
deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war,
class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all.
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a
captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in
the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears
to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled
canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland
Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding
the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver,
he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and
fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is
immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement
with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult.
When a sinister businessman and his son who wield their influence
through vicious cruelty set their sights on Aaron, drawing him into
an investigation of grotesque murders, it is clear that this
idyllic landscape harbors tremendous power-and evil. Followed by a
mysterious shrouded figure who might not be human, Aaron will have
to face down all these foes to save the life of the woman he loves
and his own. A prequel to James Lee Burke's masterful Holland
family trilogy, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of
Burke's most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of
both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love
decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the
menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface.
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Robicheaux (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
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R525
R440
Discovery Miles 4 400
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In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River
and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on. Wade Lufkin is a
man without a country or a cause - an idle spectator since New
Orleans surrendered, he now paints at his uncle's plantation. That
is until he finds an intriguing new subject... Hannah Laveau is an
enslaved woman who stands accused of everything from adultery to
insurrection, from magic to murder. But all she wants is to find
her missing son - and she will risk her life for it. When Hannah
goes on the run, she must dodge the calculating and merciless local
constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayou as she flees
through Louisiana, from the cottonmouth snakes and tree-lined
swamps to the dingy saloons of New Orleans. From 'the king of
Southern noir' (Daily Mirror) comes a powerful and deeply moving
Civil War thriller - a story of tragic acts of war, lost and
desperate people, and love enduring through it all. PRAISE FOR
JAMES LEE BURKE, THE AWARD-WINNING KING OF SOUTHERN NOIR: 'James
Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose
work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed' Michael
Connelly 'A gorgeous prose stylist' Stephen King 'No argument:
James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American
novelists' Daily Mail
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