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Introduces the life of Ruby Bridges, who was the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the south.

"Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action"--Provided by publisher.

Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.

Follow Trina and Keia Peters as they fight to survive hurricane Katrina.

Inspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.

"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] 'The Yellow House' tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.

Blanche DuBois, a faded, psychologically fragile Southern belle, arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister, Stella, and gets embroiled in a vicious battle of wills with Stella's brooding husband, Stanley.

Presents a biography of Ruby Bridges who was just six years old when she was chosen to be the first (and only) black child in the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Her courageous act left the legacy that given a chance, anyone at any age can make a difference in the world.

With kinetic art and compelling narrative, captures the tragedy of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of disaster, bigotry, and official incompetence.

In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.