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Hurricane Katrina: 20th Anniversary

These fiction and nonfiction works delve into the devastation, recovery, and enduring legacy of the historic storm that transformed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

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  • Fire on the Levee

    the Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina

    Fishman, Jared,
    The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans.
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2023] — 363.2308 GLOVE FISHM
  • Winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize, Behind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen,…
    Book, 2025Durham, NC : Blair, [2025] — FICTION LEMAL...K
  • Tulane University history professor Horowitz debuts with a vivid and persuasive chronicle of the "causes and consequences" of Hurricane Katrina.
    Book, 2020Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020. — 363.3492 HOROW
  • In a lyrical tale spanning a century and veering from the colonized Caribbean to revolutionary Russia, from mid-twentieth-century Chicago to Katrina-besieged New Orleans, Zapata spins an iridescent web of grief, loss, and memory.
    Book, 2020Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2020] — FICTION ZAPAT...M
  • Katrina

    After the Flood

    Rivlin, Gary
    Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana--on August 29, 2005--journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting affects not just on…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 976.335 RIVLI
  • We're Still Here Ya Bastards

    How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

    Gratz, Roberta Brandes
    Gratz examines the post-Katrina city primarily through the lens of urban planning and community involvement. Accounts of heavy-handed redevelopment efforts are interspersed with compelling stories of individual homeowners and their fights to reclaim…
    Book, 2015New York : Nation Books, [2015] — 976.335 GRATZ
  • Left to Chance

    Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

    Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
    Takes us into two African American neighborhoods; working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Parkto learn how their residents have experienced Miss Katrina and the long road back to normal life.
    Book, 2015Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015. — 976.335 KROLL
  • The author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial…
    Book, 2013New York : Crown Publishers, [2013] — 362.1109 FINK
  • Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen…
    Book, 2011New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2011. — FICTION WARD...J
  • Is This America?

    Katrina as Cultural Trauma

    Eyerman, Ron,
    Explores how Katrina has been constructed as a cultural trauma in print media, the arts and popular culture, and television coverage. Using stories told by the New York Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Time, Newsweek, NBC, and CNN, as well as the…
    Book, 2015Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015. — 976.044 EYERM
  • Hurricane Katrina

    America's Unnatural Disaster

    In an original combination of research and advocacy, this book questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans.
    Book, 2009Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009] — 976.044 HURRI
  • In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a…
    Book, 2009New York : Mcsweeney's Books, 2009. — 976.335 ZEITO EGGER
  • A journalist offers a collection of his columns detailing his own experiences living through Hurricane Katrina, the stories of other city inhabitants, and the struggle to rebuild in the wake of destruction, tragedy, and death.
    Book, 2007New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007. — 976.335 ROSE
  • Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
    Book, 2007New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007. — MYSTERY BURKE...J
  • Breach of Faith

    Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

    Horne, Jed, 1948-
    A journalist and resident of New Orleans offers a firsthand, eyewitness account of Hurricane Katrina, its devastating impact on New Orleans, and its terrifying aftermath, arguing that the origins of the disaster lie in the culture and politics of a…
    Book, 2006New York : Random House, 2006. — 976.335 HORNE