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    Two for Texas

    James Lee Burke

    This is the story of Son Holland and Hugh Allison - two prison escapees from Louisiana - and their whirlwind trip to Texas territory where they collide with more fascinating…

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    Every Cloak Rolled in Blood

    James Lee Burke

    In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural…

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    Jesus Out to Sea

    James Lee Burke

    One of the countrys most acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered on the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

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    Lay Down My Sword and Shield

    James Lee Burke

    Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, returns with a compelling portrait of contemporary Texas and a man caught…

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    A Stained White Radiance

    James Lee Burke

    Since winning the Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues in 1989, James Lee Burke has enthralled an increasing number of fans with books that transport the reader to the dangerous…

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    The New Iberia Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    James Lee Burke

    The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this gripping mystery from an…

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    Bitterroot

    James Lee Burke

    Former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland heads to Montana’s Bitterroot Valley to help an old friend in need, but he becomes the target of Wyatt Dixon, a prison parolee who…

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    Every Cloak Rolled in Blood

    James Lee Burke

    In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga with a writer grieving the death of his daughter while battling earthly and supernatural…

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    Dixie City Jam

    James Lee Burke

    For years, Det. Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office kept the secret of the watery resting place of the Nazi submarine. Now decades later, when a powerful Jewish…

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    Sunset Limited

    James Lee Burke

    In a novel that bursts with suspense, dead-on dialogue, and characters as memorable as the Louisiana bayou, tough-talking detective Dave Robicheaux is haunted by his discovery of the slain body…

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    Heaven’s Prisoners

    James Lee Burke

    Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic, has retired to bayou country when a small plane full of passengers, and trouble, drops out of the sky near his boat. But as he rescues…

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    Creole Belle

    James Lee Burke

    Picking up where The Glass Rainbow ended, Creole Belle finds David Robicheaux recuperating in New Orleans–near the site an oil well blowout on the Gulf. Robicheaux is visited by a…

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    In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

    James Lee Burke

    A masterwork of detective fiction–the most suspenseful, thematically dazzling accomplishment in the Robicheaux series. While Hollywood shoots a Civil War movie in the New Iberia parish, Robicheaux tries to contain…

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    Feast Day of Fools

    James Lee Burke

    Praised by Joyce Carol Oates for the luminosity of his writerly voice, Burke returns with his most allegorical novel to date, illuminating vital issues of our time–immigration, energy, religious freedom–with…

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    The Tin Roof Blowdown

    James Lee Burke

    New edition of award-winner James Lee Burke's powerful crime novel set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on New Orleans.

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    Flags at Sunset

    EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR

    From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and…

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    Swan Peak

    James Lee Burke

    Far from Louisiana, Detective Dave Robicheaux and his wife attempt to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. But the serenity is soon shattered when two college students are…

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    Purple Cane Road

    James Lee Burke

    Since his youth, New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux has regulated his missing mother, Mae Guillory, to the deepest recesses of his memory. Dave is then asked by a pimp if…

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    Robicheaux’s Roots: Culture and Tradition in James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux Novels

    Patricia M. Gaitely

    James Lee Burke developed the character of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux through twenty mystery novels published over three decades. In Robicheaux’s Roots, Patricia Gaitely explores the music, food, language, and…

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    Two for Texas

    James Lee Burke

    Out of print since 1991, Two for Texas is a rip-roaring historical novel about the Texas Revolution of 1835. No reader of Burke’s bestselling Dave Robicheaux detective novels will want…

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    To the Bright and Shining Sun

    James Lee Burke

    Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s.

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    James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux: A Critical Study of the Crime Fiction Series

    Barbara Bogue

    When he created the character Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke lent the New Orleans homicide detective a few of his own characteristics. This book explores how Burke, through the first…

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    Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke

    Maria Hebert-Leiter

    From antebellum times, Louisiana’s unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American…

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    The Lost Get-Back Boogie: A Novel

    James Lee Burke,Christine Wiltz

    Iry Paret leaves Louisiana’s Angola state penitentiary, after serving two years for manslaughter. In Montana he hopes to stay cool and out of trouble. Iry finds the fresh start he…

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    Neon Rain

    BURKE JAMES LEE

    New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers, and the bottle. Lost without his wife’s love, Robicheaux haunts the…

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    The College Lecture Today: An Interdisciplinary Defense for the Contemporary University

    The College Lecture Today makes the affirmative case for the lecture in the social sciences and humanities. Aimed at teachers, students, and administrators who want to improve teaching at their…

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