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“elise blackwell”

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  • The Lower Quarter

    A Novel

    by Elise Blackwell ...
    A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna’s past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back.An acquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Hunger

    by Elise Blackwell ...
    Scouring the world’s most remote fields and valleys, a dedicated Soviet scientist has spent his life collecting rare plants for his country’s premiere botanical institute in Leningrad. From Northern Africa to Afghanistan, from South America to Abyssinia, he has sought and saved seeds that could be traced back to the most ancient civilizations. And the adventure has set deep in him. Even at home ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • An Unfinished Score

    by Elise Blackwell ...
    As she prepares dinner for her husband andtheir extended family, Suzanne hears on the radiothat a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead.Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor.Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied withher marriage to a composer whose music turnsemotion into thought. Now, more alone thanshe’s ever been, she must grieve secretly. But ascomplex as that effort is, ... Read more

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  • The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

    by Elise Blackwell ...
    Set in southern Louisiana in the weeks preceding the great flood of 1927, this novel depicts a place and way of life about to be forever changed. On the verge of manhood and a stone’s throw of the rising Mississippi River, Louis Proby is pulled between his love of the natural world and the glittering temptations of New Orleans, between the beautiful Nanette Lançon and a father who no longer seems ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

    by Elise Blackwell ...
    Narrated by Scott Sowers ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    The author of three novels, Elise Blackwell is a "thoughtful, subtle writer" (Booklist). In this compelling and emotionally affecting tale, Hurricane Katrina bares down on New Orleans, evoking in 95-year-old Louis Proby memories of the fateful-and life-defining-flood of 1927. And tied up in these memories are all the triumphs, missteps and family obligations that make up his life. "An intimate, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Rest in the Mourning

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