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• Fire on the Levee

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

  Fishman, Jared,

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  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.

• Behind the Waterline

  LeMalle, Kionna Walker, 1975-

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Katrina

  a History, 1915-2015

  Horowitz, Andy (Andrew Deutsch),

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  Tulane University history professor Horowitz debuts with a vivid and persuasive chronicle of the "causes and consequences" of Hurricane Katrina.

• The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

  Zapata, Michael,

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  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.

• Katrina

  After the Flood

  Rivlin, Gary

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We're Still Here Ya Bastards

  How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

  Gratz, Roberta Brandes

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Left to Chance

  Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

  Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-

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  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.

• Five Days at Memorial : Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital

  Fink, Sheri

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salvage the Bones

  Ward, Jesmyn

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Is This America?

  Katrina as Cultural Trauma

  Eyerman, Ron,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hurricane Katrina

  America's Unnatural Disaster

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  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.

• Zeitoun

  Eggers, Dave

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 1 Dead in Attic

  After Katrina

  Rose, Chris, 1960-

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  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.

• The Tin Roof Blowdown

  Burke, James Lee, 1936-

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  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.

• Breach of Faith

  Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

  Horne, Jed, 1948-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation