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2021., Adults, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Holland Novel Volume: #12Summary Note: "New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult. When a sinister businessman and his son who wield their influence through vicious cruelty set their sights on Aaron, drawing him into an investigation of grotesque murders, it is clear that this idyllic landscape harbors tremendous power--and evil. Followed by a mysterious shrouded figure who might not be human, Aaron will have to face down all these foes to save the life of the woman he loves and his own. The latest installment in James Lee Burke's masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke's most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface."--
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c2001., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Texas Ranger turned lawyer Billy Bob Holland travels to Montana to help an old friend in trouble and finds himself in equal danger when an old enemy vows vengeance.
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2023., Adult, Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: FIC BUR Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose "evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder" (Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all" --
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2024., Adult, Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: FIC BUR Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose "Western hero" facade hides darkness. An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through one final act of bravery. With his nuanced characters, lyrical prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke's singular skills are on display in this superb anthology. Harbor Lights unfolds in stories that crackle and reverberate as unexpected heroes emerge"--
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c2004., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Montana lawyer Billy Bob Holland defends Johnny American Horse, an activist for the rights of Native Americans who has been charged with the murder of two mysterious men, and discovered a network of intrigue involving Johnny's girlfriend, a Missoula police detective, and a government agent.
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2019., Adults, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dave Robicheaux novel Volume: # 22.Summary Note: Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered the body of a young woman who's been crucified, wearing only a small chain on her ankle. She disappeared near Cormier's Cyrpemort Point estate, and Robicheaux, along with young deputy, Sean McClain, are looking for answers. Neither Cormier nor his enigmatic actor friend Antoine Butterworth are saying much, but Robicheaux knows better.
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c2006., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective Dave Robicheaux faces the most painful and dangerous case of his career as he tries to help the daughter of his Vietnam-era buddy prove her innocence after she is caught passing marked hundred-dollar bills.
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2020., Adults, Simon and Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dave Robicheaux novels. Volume: #23Summary Note: "On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny and Isolde are in love. And like Romeo and Juliet, Johnny and Isolde are being kept apart by their families. In fact, Isolde tells Robicheaux, her parents have given her to the Shondell patriarch to be used as a sex slave. Seeking to uncover why, Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and her father's mistress. As retribution, the elder Balangie orders a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcell. Yet this is unlike any hitman Robicheaux has ever faced: he has the ability induce hallucinations and might be a time-traveling reptilian. A Private Cathedral is both vintage James Lee Burke and one of his most inventive works to date--mixing romance, violence, mythology and science-fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love"--
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2000., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC BUR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sheriff's investigator Dave Robicheaux, having grown up with the lingering sadness of his mother's disappearance when he was a boy, is stunned into action when a New Orleans lowlife tells him his mother was murdered thirty years earlier by two cops who are still on the job.
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2009., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hackberry Holland takes the sheriff job in a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border hoping he can leave his past behind and lead a quiet life, but the discovery of nine illegal aliens who were brutally murdered ruins any chance of peace and sends Hackberry in search of Iraq veteran Pete Flores and his girlfriend, who witnessed the crime and are wanted by the ruthless criminals who will stop at nothing to keep them quiet.
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2018., Adults, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dave Robicheaux Volume: #21Summary Note: Struggling with PTSD, alcoholism and wrenching loss, Dave Robicheaux discovers that he may have committed the homicide he is investigating and endeavors to clear his name and make sense of the killing.
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2007., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself living a nightmare when he is dispatched to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to search for a morphine-addicted priest, a vigilante, and two serial rapists in a city that has been reduced to the level of medieval society.