The Friends of the Terrebonne Parish Library will host its Inventory Reduction Book Sale from 2 p.m.
He is the author of seven books, including “Call and Response” (with Darrell Bourque, 2010), “Come Rain, Come Shine” (2006), “What Passes for Love” (2001) and “Bone-Hollow, True: New & Selected Poems” (2013). Jack Bedell, professor of the Humanities at Southeastern Louisiana University, has been chosen to be the next Louisiana poet laureate. Publisher’s Weekly calls the Louisiana-based story, “Explosive.” New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler of New Orleans has published “The Other Girl,” a new thriller about a ritualist murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she’d put behind her. Cappello is a business writer, musician, poet and playwright in New Orleans. His 1951 Supreme Court victory over “fair trade” laws played a key role in legalizing discount pricing. The book is a business-based biography of Schwegmann, founder of a New Orleans’ supermarket chain. Thursday at the East Bank Regional Library in Metairie. Schwegmann, New Orleans, and the Making of the Modern Retail Worlds” at 7 p.m. When his girlfriend gives birth to a son, he feels the pull of being someone his son will admire, despite the hand being dealt him as a man of color.ĭavid Cappello, a business writer who lives in New Orleans, will discuss his new book, “The People’s Grocer: John G.
Jackie’s son, T.C., grows up lured with the easy money of providing drugs to the community, and he enjoys growing his own special blend of pot. Evelyn must choose between her privileged upbringing and the man she loves, a man struggling to achieve success among gross discrimination in both the military and the city of his youth.Įvelyn and Renard give birth to two daughters, one who becomes a successful lawyer and Jackie, who marries a man destined to fall victim to drugs. She falls for Renard, a man of lesser upbringing but one who also desires to become a doctor. Three New Orleans generations make up Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s heart-wrenching novel, “A Kind of Freedom,” each suffering through desires, ambitions and brutal limitations.Įvelyn grows up in a middle-class Creole family during World War II, her father a doctor and a pillar among the African American community.
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