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"Restless with the familiarity of her Alabama home, Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in a tiny Louisiana town deep in bayou country. Though rightfully suspicious of outsiders, who have threatened both their language and their culture, most of the people in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana, come to appreciate the young and idealistic schoolteacher as a boon to the town. She's soon teaching just about everyone--and coming up against opposition from both...
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What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?
New Orleans may be the "Big Easy," but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs-only to learn a long-hidden secret that changes everything she...
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"The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very...
5) Cajun home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discusses the history and culture of the Cajuns, French-speaking people who settled deep in the woods and bayous of Louisiana.
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Alaskan pilot Aaron LeDeux came to Louisiana with his brother to discover his Cajun roots. But any hopes he had of returning home are extinguished when he agrees to help a crew of street monks and nuns rescue sex-trafficked girls. For the work has become his new calling. Plus, he's in love with a gorgeous almost-nun named Fleur. With her harrowing past, Fleur Gaudet only feels safe at the nunnery. But when she's ordered out into the real world to...
7) Fiddle fever
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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870L
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English
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In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
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c1999
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English
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A genealogy CD of over 600,000 Acadian and Cajun ancestral records submitted to Yvon Cyr, hjost of the Acadian-Cajun web site www. acadian.org. These unedited records are linkage linked so you can trace your family history from modern day Acadian and Cajun gamilies to generations past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
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English
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Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
13) Junior's leg
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2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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[2014?]
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English
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Season 4 on History and the resolute crews face wild weather, a ticking time clock and life-threatening feats. While surrounding states are knee-deep in drought and dehydration, the people of south Louisiana once again wade through the Atchafalaya waters as Hurricane Isaac hits on gator season's opening day.
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2011.
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English
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Master gator hunters Troy Landry and Junior Edwards return for a second season of survival Cajun-style deep in the bayous of the Louisiana wilderness. Danger and excitement abound, along with a rich tradition of language, food, music and generations of shared family experience. A colorful cast of characters use techniques dating back to frontier days to live off the land, catching everything from frogs to squirrels and raccoons. Includes bonus features....
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2011.
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English
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Season One takes you on a journey to the bayous and swamplands of America's Southern heartland to witness a group of people that live on the fringes of society. They are the swamp people, and their distinct culture has its roots in the early days of America's expansion westward. The descendants of moonshiners, immigrant railroad workers and early settlers, the swamp people have inherited a legacy of self-reliance and anti-establishment values that...
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