Books set primarily in Arkansas, Louisiana or Oklahoma
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Season of the Swamp: A Novel
by Yuri Herrera
Hardcover: Oct 2024
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.
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King of the Armadillos
by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man's quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life
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Let Us Descend: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years ...
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
by Monica Potts
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
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Stealing: A Novel
by Margaret Verble
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret ...
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Glory Be: A Glory Broussard Mystery
by Danielle Arceneaux
Hardcover: Oct 2023
The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series.
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Nobody's Magic
by Destiny O. Birdsong
Hardcover: Feb 2022
Paperback: Jan 2023
In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of ...
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
by Scott Ellsworth
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
More than one-thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.
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Things We Lost to the Water
by Eric Nguyen
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: Apr 2022
A stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped.
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
by Brit Bennett
Hardcover: Jun 2020
Paperback: Feb 2022
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
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The Removed
by Brandon Hobson
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Oct 2021
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago - from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson.
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The Big Door Prize
by M.O. Walsh
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Aug 2021
The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who ...
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