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Here the author, a physician and reporter provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat...
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In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA's office. But who would fight for Thompson's innocence when...
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"A history of the first civil rights movement and the origins of black and white in America. When we hear "civil rights," we tend to think of the 1950s and 1960s activism that put an end to Jim Crow segregation laws. In the Accident of Color, Daniel Brook takes us to New Orleans and Charleston, where before the Civil War, free biracial people-- sometimes referred to as "browns"-- exercised many right of citizenship. During Reconstruction, as a black-...
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NYC journalist Ethan Brown investigates the tragic end of Zackery Bowen, a young charismatic soldier from New Orleans, in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America. Among the newsworthy elements in the book is Brown's discovery that this tragedy--like so many others--could have been avoided if the military had simply not failed this soldier.
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Ammeson shares the extraordinary and off-the-wall true story of Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham, who left a trail of broken hearts, empty wallets, and corpses through The Gilded Age. Just sixteen when she stood trial for the wrongful death of her first husband, the Creole beauty from New Orleans brought the courtroom to tears and was acquitted. She targeted, seduced, and murdered two more wealthy older men while evading justice in the courtroom--and...
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