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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the...
2) 12 rounds
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. A year later Danny is about to have the worst day of his life. After escaping from prison, the theif, who is also an internationally-known terrorist, named Miles Jackson, kidnaps Danny's girlfriend Molly and forces him into '12 Rounds' of dangerous games carefully plotted throughout...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
5) Girls trip
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A rookie cop inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
8) 12 rounds
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans police detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal matermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with 12 rounds of near-impossible puzzles and tasks that he must somehow complete to save the life of the woman he loves.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Northern Lawyer John Reynolds (John Wayne) goes up against the lottery racket in 1880 corrupt Louisiana. While to the riverboat to New Orleans, he meets and falls in love with Southern Belle, Julie (Ona Munson), General Anatole Mirbeau's beautiful daughter. The General (Henry Stephenson) and his right-hand man Blackburn 'Blackie' Williams (Ray Middleton) run the popular Louisiana State Lottery Company, which support illegal activities and brothels...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
12) Hatchet III
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
13) The runner
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
aCharlie Chan, along with his enthusiastic number two son, Tommy, and his chauffeur, Birmingham, is brought to New Orleans to investigate the mysterious goings-on with the partners at Lafontanne Chemical Co. Soon after, the head of the company is found dead and a series of unexplainable deaths follow the investigation.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In lawless, storm-ravaged New Orleans, a beleaguered detective is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, he is teamed with a young homicide detective to help solve a series of brutal murders that have plunged the city into a major gang war. The two quickly realize there is something far more sinister going on than either could have ever imagined.
16) Girls trip
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Four lifelong friends travel to the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guradian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Mulan II: Mulan and Shang are engaged to be married and must journey to a distant city in a valiant quest to save their beloved empire.
Brave: Princess Merida, an archer and self-reliant young woman, makes a decision which defies custom and brings chaos to her kingdom. To restore her kingdom,...
18) Hotel
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Through the doors of the St. Gregory, a posh, aging luxury hotel in the lusty New Orleans French Quarter, pass the powerful, the proud and the predatory. Among them are the bigoted owner, a tough-minded general manager, an arrogant Duchess who dominates her weak-willed husband, a Bible-thumping tycoon who'll invoke any means to add the St. Gregory to his conformity-stamped hotel chain, a duplicitous detective and a thief with a briefcase full of room...
19) Streets of blood
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans after 'Katrina', the partner of Detective Andy Devereaux is found dead, and he is teamed up with Stan Green. During the investigations, an undercover DEA agent is murdered by two dirty police officers. A psychologist, Nina Ferraro, has successive interviews with Andy, Stan and the two detectives. Meanwhile, the FBI also investigate the corruption in the police force leaded by Agent Brown.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else...
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