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161) Fragile darkness
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Midnight dragonfly volume no. 3
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In the wake of tragedy, sixteen-year-old Trinity Monsour loses her psychic visions but still senses danger surrounding a new friend and, as she enters the confusion of the New Orleans party scene, the mercurial Dylan Fourcade is at her side, helping but confusing her at ever turn.
162) The King Cake Baby
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In this New Orleans version of The Gingerbread Man, the King Cake Baby, a small figure that is traditionally baked inside a king cake during Carnival season, escapes and encounters various local characters as he runs across the French Quarter, heading for the Mississippi River. Includes a recipe for king cake.
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"High Mas explores Caribbean identity through photography, criticism, and personal narrative. Taking a sophisticated and unapologetically subjective Caribbean point of view, Browne delves into Mas as an emancipatory practice. The photographs and essays give the viewer an opportunity to see how performers are or wish to be perceived, as well as how the photographer is implicated in that dynamic. The resulting interplay encourages an informed, nuanced...
165) Brazil revealed
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Discover Brazil through the eyes of its people and explore the surrounding beaches, jungles, and landscaping mountains that make this land so vibrant. A country built on belief, unlike any other, where tradition and transformation live together.
167) The crown of Venice
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Agatha Mistery and her cousin travel to Venice to investigate the theft of an ancient crown during the Carnevale celebrations.
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Abbott and Costello go to Mars: Bud and Lou accidentally take off for Mars and end up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Abbott and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Abbott and Costello meet the Keystone Kops: Bud and Lou follow a con man to Hollywood after being swindled into buying a phony movie studio. Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy: Bud and Lou stumble upon...
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"'Hey Mister, throw me some beads!' is a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot. Strings of beads, doubloons, and other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. In 1974, Bruce Gilden was a young photographer when he first went down to Mardi Gras to shoot his first personal essay away from his home city New York. But when Gilden first stepped foot in New Orleans,...
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New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.