An investigative look into cases of sexual abuse of boys by Catholic priests profiles the families and children who are struggling to regain faith and secure justice; the church officials struggling to cover up the scandal; and the abusive priests. Tour.

Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

Politics & Social Sciences

Jason Berry

Social Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

Louisiana Faces: Images from a Renaissance

Arts & Photography

philip-gould-text-by-jason-berry

Photography & Video

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Last of the Red Hot Poppas

"Last of the Red Hot Poppas will make you laugh and it will make you think rather more deeply than will make you comfortable, and in these wildly disjointed times that means this novel is not only a richly enjoyable read but an essential one." Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Right-wing flag enthusiasts, big oil power brokers, luckless inheritors of environmental degradation, professional gamblers, sexual profligates, ACLU lawyers, and political hit menLast of the Red Hot Poppas has all of these and more. Jason Berry, quintessential Louisiana insider and witty chronicler of what passes for morality in the halls of power, has concocted a tantalizing mix of comic misdemeanors and serious criminal activity.” Valerie Martin, author of Property "Both wildly entertaining and deadly serious, Last of the Red Hot Poppas is a fabulous read nobody understands Louisiana politics (and its larger-than-life characters) better than Jason Berry. I couldn't put this one down." Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill and The Last Girls Last of the Red Hot Poppas is part ribald whodunit, part social satire, and part spiritual comedy,” as Berry calls it. It’s a chaotic romp through the many levels of Looziana,” but above all, it is a novel about the struggle to maintain one’s integrity in a mad world of politics and power.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Chin Music Press Inc.

City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300

The University of North Carolina Press

The history of New Orleans in the wrenching aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can be telegraphed in one sentence. Politics failed, culture prevailed . . . . Music is the memory of New Orleans. For all of the corruption, poverty and violence, the music is elemental, a gorgeous collective chorus to the best instincts of the human experiment. We know that The City Where Jazz Began lives on borrowed time, facing huge environmental odds in the age of climate change, a city that could be buried by one titanic flood or crippled by some long-running mayor or governor. Floods and epic storms are in our past and in our future; yet for close to three centuries the city as a human essence has prevailed. The world can be an unforgiving place, yet this maddening, charm-dripping, tragicomic town at the bottom of America registers a life force, like the Mardi Gras Indian, that won t bow down. There is abiding comfort in the words of Harold Battiste, a guiding force of the heritage jazz that came out of the little clubs in the 1950s near the Magnolia Street housing project: New Orleans, the city, has always been the focus. Musicians come and go, and their creations always seem directed at the city. Because after all is said and done, New Orleans is the star.

Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II

Jonathan Foose

Tad Jones

Music

Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette

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