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Author
Series
Creoles series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both...
2) The Tapestry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Creoles Series tells the stories of four young women who attend the Ursuline Convent School in New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Each book is a romantic adventure that focuses on one woman as she faces the trials of life and faith. In this striking conclusion to The Creoles Series, Gilbert Morris delivers his award-winning storytelling, told against a cultural background unique to this series alone.Abandoned as an infant on the...
3) The alchemy
Author
Series
Creoles series volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Each book in The Creoles Series revolves around one of four girls who become close friends while attending a convent school in New Orleans. The third book, The Alchemy focuses on Simone d'Or, a vivacious young woman hardened by high society life, and Colin Seymour, a talented young man from humble beginnings. As the famed singer and composer Lord Beaufort nurtures Colin's singing voice, Colin rises to stardom in the opera world. At first, Simone judges...
4) The exiles
Author
Series
Creoles series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This first novel in the Creoles series describes the trials and triumphs of four girls who meet at the Ursuline Convent School and declare themselves to be the "Four Musketeers-- one for all and all for one." The Exiles focuses on the life of one of the four young women: the red-haired, headstrong Chantel Fontaine. As a young girl, Chantel faced overwhelming tragedy, and now the realization of who the mysterious child on the street might be sends...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 19
Description
When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, Dave Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song on the iPod that she kindly left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of his Creole belle,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns,...