Ken Wells
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Justin Pitre was born and raised on his grandfather's Louisiana bayou, and he has made a promise to keep his family's prized 500-acre property safe. But across town, Big-Tex oil bigwig Tom Huff and his company have major plans to cash in on the resources that lie below the bayou.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The capstone of Ken Wells’s acclaimed Catahoula Bayou trilogy, Logan’s Storm tracks the epic journey of Logan LaBauve as he flees corrupt cops while trying to lead Chilly Cox—the teenager whose “crime” was rescuing Logan’s son, Meely, from a racist bully—to safety. But dodging two-footed predators deep in the Cajun backwaters turns out to be the easy part. As Logan, accompanied by a newfound love interest,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a long and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, make a fateful decision to ride out Hurricane Katrina on their hand-built fishing boats in a sheltered Civil War–era harbor called Violet Canal. But when Violet is overrun by killer surges, the Robins must summon all their courage, seamanship, and cunning to save themselves and the scores of others suddenly cast into their
...Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Wall Street Journal reporter shares his best columns from six decades of writing in the paper's famous "middle column," covering such topics as animal lovers who freeze-dry their pets and efforts to translate the Bible into Klingon
