Secrets Of New Orleans

Author : Fred Van Lente,James Cambias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 1568823029

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Secrets of New Orleans by Fred Van Lente,James Cambias Pdf

New Orleans in the 1920's is a city of many faces. The gaiety of Mardi Gras is juxtaposed with the rampant corruption that earned New Orleans the nickname "The City That Care Forgot." The genteel decline of the French Quarter, the location of the city's original settlement, stands in contrast to the rich opulence of the Garden District, where the Americans later built their mansions. Voodoo and Catholicism exist peacefully side by side. And beneath it all, the face of the Mythos can sometimes be glimpsed .... This guidebook includes detailed chapters on: the history of New Orleans, the French Quarter and the greater city, and the bayous and coastal area. A chapter on voodoo includes guidelines for integrating it into Call of Cthulhu. New occupations unique to the Crescent City and the area are suggested, and five secret societies are covered. A scenario designed to acquaint investigators with most of New Orleans' areas completes the book.

Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret by Byron Preiss Pdf

The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 161703360X

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Secrets of a New Orleans Chef by Anonim Pdf

One of New Orlean's best chefs divulges his culinary secrets, among them: Trout Mousse, Roast Long Island Duck, Lamb Curry, Barbados Rum Trifle, and the author's very special chocolate cake.

Author : Chris Champagne
Publisher : Editions Jonglez
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 2361951681

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Secret New Orleans by Chris Champagne Pdf

Houses built to resemble riverboats, the finest business hall in the world, a meteorite in a golf course, a back alley that serves as a portal of the voodoo afterwold, a 1960's time capsule, a house made of 1200 glass ashtrays, Lee Harvey Oswald forgotten Commemorative Plate, a secret doll museum on the second floor of a private house, the largest religious work of art on canvas in the world ... Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, New Orleans offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew New Orleans well or would like to discover the other face of the city. *Secret New Orleans won a Bronze Medal in the 'Travel Guidebook' category at the Independent Publisher Book Awards competition, USA, 2018*

Author : Ron Wallace
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649131911

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A Secret Lies in New Orleans by Ron Wallace Pdf

A Secret Lies in New Orleans By: Ron Wallace When 96-year-old retired U.S. Marshal and co-founder of Cowboys and Indians Detective Agency, William Matthew Wallace, receives a painting signed by his long-dead father in the mail from his former colleague living in New Orleans, an eight-decades-old family mystery unravels, and his son and godson are sent to investigate the circumstances for him. From pre-statehood Oklahoma into the turn of the twenty-first century, the family’s secrets are brought to light as a modern crime evolves from the past.

Author : Julie Smith
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804107389

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New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith Pdf

When the smiling King of Carnival is killed at Mardi Gras, policewoman Skip Langdon is on the case. She knows the upper-crust family of the victim and that it hides more than its share of glittering skeletons. But nothing could prepare her for the tangled web of clues and ancient secrets that would mean danger for her--and doom for the St. Amants.... "Smith is a gifted writer." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

Author : Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801868823

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The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein Pdf

"Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side... This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century." -- from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason -- a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman -- for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.

Author : Errol Laborde
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1455617644

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Mardi Gras: Chronicles by Errol Laborde Pdf

The definitive guide to all things Mardi Gras . . . past and present! From Twelfth Night to Ash Wednesday, New Orleans is transformed. Queens and fools, demons and dragons reign over the Crescent City. This vividly photographed book is a lively, comprehensive history of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Fascinating and intimate, this book seamlessly intertwines the past with the present.

Author : P. Curran
Publisher : Crescent City Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0998643181

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Stay Out of New Orleans by P. Curran Pdf

Stay Out of New Orleans: Strange Tales A crass tour of feral street life in New Orleans in the 1990's. A lucid walk through the shadows of North America's best and weirdest city, a place that bewitches some visitors and infects others. A bohemia stretching back to the dawn of absinthe. A town of hidden doors, hidden courtyards, and open secrets. Each day a fresh crime eager to happen, transcendent, fertile. Death lurking in every bar. No one knew it was a golden age............ See what the flood washed away... Self published in 2012, Stay Out of New Orleans has become an underground New Orleans cult classic and has gone on to sell a couple of thousand copies strictly by word of mouth and carried in but a couple of local stores. Now re-designed and re-formatted these 13 stories of NOLA 1990's street life will continue to find a new audience of readers-those both enchanted and those repelled by the city.

Author : Bisi Adjapon
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063088962

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The Teller of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon Pdf

“Bisi Adjapon writes with incredible vividness and clarity. Her similes and attention to all of the senses are really extraordinary.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Monk of Mokha “Melding blistering humor with razor-sharp insight, The Teller of Secrets heralds a marvel of a writer, one capable of deftly balancing questions of sexuality, politics, and feminism in a novel that is a pure joy to read.”—Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize In this stunning debut novel—a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening—a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana begins to question the hypocrisy of her patriarchal society, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women. Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial “secret keeper” of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters’ sex lives. But after she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women's secrets and men's secrets bear different consequences. It is the beginning of a journey of discovery that will lead her to unexpected places. As she navigates her burgeoning womanhood, Esi tries to reconcile her own ideals and dreams with her family’s complicated past and troubled present, as well as society’s many double standards that limit her and other women. Against a fraught political climate, Esi fights to carve out her own identity, and learns to manifest her power in surprising and inspiring ways. Funny, fresh, and fiercely original, The Teller of Secrets marks the American debut of one of West Africa's most exciting literary talents.

Author : Fred Van Lente
Publisher : Chaosium
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Call of Cthulhu (Game)
ISBN : 1568820895

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The New Orleans Guidebook by Fred Van Lente Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Burton,Rudy Lombard
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 160801150X

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Creole Feast by Nathaniel Burton,Rudy Lombard Pdf

Before there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs when it was first presented in 1978. These masters of modern Creole cuisine share the recipes, tips, and tricks from the kitchens of New Orleans' most famous restaurants, including Dooky Chase, Commander's Palace, Broussard's, and Galatoire's. Today, Creole Feast still stands as the most comprehensive collection of Creole recipes assembled in one volume. The recipes include classic dishes synonymous with New Orleans, such as gumbo, jambalaya, and red beans and rice, and also luxurious Creole dishes like Lobster Armorican and Oysters Bienville, plus tempting desserts like Creole bread pudding with whiskey sauce and the famous old Hotel Pontchantrain's Mile High Pie. With this classic now back in print, home cooks will turn their kitchens into some of New Orleans premiere restaurants, helped along by fifteen master chefs.

Author : Ray Nagin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : 146095971X

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Katrina's Secrets by Ray Nagin Pdf

C. Ray Nagin was Mayor of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. He weighs in on the chaotic days leading up to and following the biggest natural and man-made disaster in America's history. He delivers exacting detail on the city's relief effort, and exposes secrets that have been glossed over or spun out.

Author : Arthur Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Carnival
ISBN : 0930892445

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Mardi Gras in New Orleans by Arthur Hardy Pdf

Author : Alice Lunsford
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480925144

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Secrets of the Bayou by Alice Lunsford Pdf

Secrets of the Bayou By Alice Lunsford When Karen receives a letter from a long-lost relative, she doesn’t think much of it. In fact, she just wants to throw the letter away. However, her quirky roommate, Corky, won’t allow that, and before long, Karen is off on a trip to reconnect with her relatives in the bayous of Louisiana. The journey that starts with a turbulent plane ride and talkative seat partner quickly evolves into something else. The Bayou holds secrets, voodoo, and a dark past. While Karen explores her family’s background, she stumbles on a history she forgot long ago. As she tries to unearth her roots, she might just get dragged down to where she can’t escape.