Lsu Press: 854 books
Of Memory and Desire
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
hese eleven compelling stories reveal the interplay and varying hues of two basic elements of human experience -- memory and desire, Gladys Swan's characters are frequently forced to shed their illusions as they struggle to shape their lives.
The title story, like many of the others in the collection,...
Unknown Caller
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
For as long Daniella has been married to Joel, they’ve received phone calls at odd hours, and late at night. Daniella knows the caller as Liesel, Joel’s first wife, a woman whose sudden departure devastated her husband. After years of disruptive, long-distance phone calls, Liesel rings to tell...
All Souls
Essential Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of history, memory, and the indelible bonds between living and dead that has marked the output of Louisiana Poet Laureate Emerita Brenda Marie Osbey. Comprising poems written and published over the span of four decades,...
Ghost Dance
A Play of Voices: A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
hloride, New Mexico, is a dusty mining town slowly bleaching away in the sun, a casualty of the big copper firms' exodus to South America. To the dying place returns Roselle More -- hometown girl and faded Hollywood star -- for the premiere of her new film. The even is a cynical promotional gimmick,...
Not in Vain
A Rifleman Remembers World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Growing up in a small college town in central Mississippi in the 1930s, Leon C. Standifer knew little of the trauma of war. But by the time he was nineteen, World War II had made war a reality for him. Standifer volunteered for and was accepted by a special army program that would send him to college...
Crash and Tell
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Sometimes wildly funny, yet often serious, jarringly uncanny yet realistic, the stories in Lori Baker's Crash & Tell seem to come from a different time and place. In her darkly whimsical world, Baker plays with a variety of narrative voices and styles, skillfully treading the line between traditional...
Binding Up the Wounds
An American Soldier in Occupied Germany, 1945--1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In his highly acclaimed Not in Vain, Leon C. Standifer recounted his experiences as a small-town Mississippi boy who at age nineteen found himself fighting as a combat infantryman in World War II France and Germany. Binding Up the Wounds carries the story beyond V-E Day to describe what the author...
Stations West
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Oklahoma is a forgotten territory of "Indians, outlaws, and immigrants" when its first Jewish settler, Boggy Haurowitz, arrives in 1859. Full of expectations, he finds the untamed region a formidable foe, its landscape rugged, its resources strained.
In Stations West, four generations of Haurowitzes,...
Alexis in America
A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-1872
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In the autumn of 1871, Alexis Romanov, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, set sail from his homeland for an extended journey through the United States and Canada. A major milestone in U.S.-Russia relations, the tour also served Duke Alexis's family by helping to extricate him from an unsuitable...
by David A. Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agents from the Third Reich...
Amazons in America
Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media—constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in...
An American Planter
Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of...
The Delta Queen Cookbook
The History and Recipes of the Legendary Steamboat
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
The world's last authentic overnight wooden steamboat, the Delta Queen cruised America's inland waters from 1927 through 2008, offering passengers breathtaking views, luxury accommodations, rousing entertainment, and southern-style feasts. For over eighty-two years, chefs in the small galley served...
Hitler's Secret War In South America, 1939–1945
German Military Espionage and Allied Counterespionage in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Published first in Brazil as Suástica sobre o Brasil, this examination of the rise and fall of German espionage in that country spent months on the best-seller list there and generated a national furor as former spies and collaborationists denounced it as a CIA ploy. Here, for the first time, are...