In the summer of the 1890s, Edna Pontellier and her children vacation in the coastal town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and, unsatisfied with her marriage and her role as parent, she has an affair which arouses and renews her soul.
The true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who, in 1960, was one of the first African American students to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
Daquan Watson uses his gift for music to help him build a new future with New Orleans' biggest rap label, overcoming the dangers and tragedies of his childhood in the city's notorious, drug-infested projects, but even as he makes a new life for himself, Daquan wonders if he will ever be able to escape his urban upbringing.
When New Orleans detective Rick Bentz begins seeing his first wife Jennifer, who died twelve years earlier, everywhere, he is forced to relive his darkest nightmare as he pieces together her last days, which pits him against a killer who intends to make him suffer for his sins.
Four young friends find themselves pulled in different directions when they enter high school, and as the years pass, their envy, jealousy, and mistrust leads to violence.
Tells the story of Hurricane Katrina from the point of view of Ruby, an unusually intuitive girl who lives with her grandmother in New Orleans but has powerful memories of an earlier life in the swamps.
Fifteen-year-old Franklin "Franky" Bourgeois is about to fall into a life of crime when he is given a second chance to turn his life around, but he soon learns getting back on track is harder than he thought.
