Shiveree
Shiveree

Author: Sophie Dunbar

Publisher: Big Earth Publishing

Published: 2000-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781890768249

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What could possibly go wrong at a wedding? Sleuthing couple Claire and Dan Claiborne's best friends, Charlotte and Foley, are getting married on Christmas Eve, and all hell threatens to break loose, even before the shiveree starts! Set in one of New Orleans' swankiest hotels, the wedding promises to be a society event until Charlotte's relatives, the swamp Daltons begin battling with the society Daltons, and then the groom's ex-wife shows up. -- Sophie Dunbar, as always, brings the glitter and color of New Orleans to life in this rich gumbo of swanky society, swamp culture and juicy murder

The End of the World
The End of the World

Author: Eggleston Edward Eggleston

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1429044845

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I don't believe that you'd care a cent if she did marry a Dutchman! She might as well as to marry some white folks I know. Samuel Anderson made no reply. It would be of no use to reply. Shrews are tamed only by silence. Anderson had long since learned that the little shred of influence which remained to him in his own house would disappear whenever his teeth were no longer able to shut his tongue securely in. So now, when his wife poured out this hot lava of argumentum ad hominem, he closed the teeth down in a dead-lock way over the tongue, and compressed the lips tightly over the teeth, and shut his finger-nails into his work-hardened palms. And then, distrusting all these precautions, fearing lest he should be unable to hold on to his temper even with this grip, the little man strode out of the house with his wife's shrill voice in his ears.

The End of the World
The End of the World

Author: Edward Eggleston

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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"The End of the World: A Love Story" by Edward Eggleston takes as its inspiration one of the numerous times when many Christians thought the end of the world was coming. Set in America, this book is a tongue-in-cheek look at how devout believers can twist themselves into knots based on mere interpretations of signals. However, though men and women might fear the end is near, one thing can't be halted: finding love.

Dear Descendants
Dear Descendants

Author: Columbia J. Mankin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0359540775

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Digitally scanned version of a two-volume type-written family history. The chapters were dictated by Columbia to Orla and later typed by Orla. Also includes "Orla's addendum," which contains comments and writings of Orla Vaughan, plus family photos

300 Years of the French in Old Mines
300 Years of the French in Old Mines

Author: Mark G. Boyer

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-07-23

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1666723991

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The village of Old Mines is the oldest settlement in the state of Missouri. Lead miners were in Old Mines as early as 1719. The founding of Old Mines in 1723 coincides with the land grant awarded to Philippe Francois Renault by French authorities on June 26, 1723, to mine lead. Thus, the oldest village in Missouri began as a mining town. In 2023, the village marks three hundred years of the French in Old Mines. This book narrates the history of people in remote Louisiana and how they have kept alive a French heritage of culture and customs. The history of Old Mines is tightly bound to the Catholic faith the French settlers brought with them, the parish they founded, and the church, schools, rectories, and convents they built. The decade of the 2020s is filled with over twenty anniversaries to be marked and celebrated in the oldest mining town in Missouri, itself marking its Bicentennial in 2021. This is not a scholarly writing of history; it is a thirty-chapter narrative, grounded in research, of the continual presence of the French in Old Mines for three hundred years.