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      By Horne, Jed, 1948-
       c2006., Random House Call No: 976.3 H815b   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city's collapse into chaos and its continuing struggle to survive. He takes readers into the private worlds and inner thoughts of storm victims from all walks of life to weave a tapestry as intricate and vivid as the city itself. Politicians, thieves, nurses, urban visionaries, grieving mothers, entrepreneurs with an eye for quick profit at public expense - all of these lives collide in a chronicle that is harrowing, angry, and often slyly ironic.
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      By Herren, Greg
       c2007., Alyson Call No: MYS Fic Her    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Chanse MacLeod mysteries   Volume: 3 Summary Note: When private investigator Chanse MacLeod discovers that his last client before hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans was murdered - the very night she hired him to find her long missing father - Chanse is drawn into the deadly, secretive world of the Verlaine family.
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      By Ward, Jesmyn
       c2011., Adult, Bloomsbury USA Call No: BLK Fic War   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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      By Ward, Jesmyn  OverDrive, Inc
       2011., Adult, Bloomsbury Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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      By Pierce, Wendell  Dreher, Rod
       2015., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: Bio P615w    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American middle-class subdivision in New Orleans. The hurricane breached many of the city's levees, and the resulting flooding submerged Pontchartrain Park under as much as 20 feet of water. Katrina left New Orleans later that day, but for the next three days the water kept relentlessly gushing into the city, plunging eighty percent of New Orleans under water. Nearly 1,500 people were killed. Half the houses in the city had four feet of water in them?or more. There was no electricity or clean water in the city; looting and the breakdown of civil order soon followed. Tens of thousands of New Orleanians were stranded in the city, with no way out; many more evacuees were displaced, with no way back in. Pierce and his family were some of the lucky ones: They survived and were able to ride out the storm at a relative's house 70 miles away. When they were finally allowed to return, they found their family home in tatters, their neighborhood decimated. Heartbroken but resilient, Pierce vowed to help rebuild, and not just his family's home, but all of Pontchartrain Park. In this powerful and redemptive narrative, Pierce brings together the stories of his family, his city, and his history, why they are all worth saving and the critical importance art played in reuniting and revitalizing this unique American city. Wendell Pierce was born in New Orleans and is an actor and Tony Award-winning producer. He is best known for his roles in HBO dramas, such as Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire, trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, and Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale. Since Hurricane Katrina, Pierce has been helping to rebuild the flood-ravaged Pontchartrain Park neighborhood in New Orleans"--Provided by publisher.