A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in NEW ORLEANS, whether your trip takes you to the French Quarter, the Garden District or the Central Business District. Make the most of your visit to the Big Easy with this guide. “With the wealth of opportunities overwhelming us when we hit New Orleans, we found Delaplaine’s book to be an invaluable guide so we didn’t waste our time with bad restaurants and unimportant things to do.” --- George F., Seattle “I actually live in New Orleans and bought this book out of curiosity. I found three great restaurants I’d never even heard of.” --- Jerry A., New Orleans You'll save a lot of time using this concise guide. =LODGINGS (in several parts of Atlanta) variously priced =FINE & BUDGET RESTAURANTS, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found. =PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you. =A handful of interesting SHOPPING ideas.

From French Quarter to St. Charles Avenue and its cable cars, from the Garden District to the city’s cemeteries with their iconic above-ground tombs, this book takes travelers to New Orleans as never before, providing a fascinating chronological history and walking tours of the city from its earliest days up to modern times. A separate tour covers every fifty years of history, pointing out key figures as well as regular citizens who made the city what it is today. Timeline Books These one-of-a-kind guides allow readers to move through time as never before, bringing them face to face with the people and events behind some of America’s most important historical landmarks and locations. No other guidebooks draw so much on the first-hand accounts of those involved in the historic events that transpired in the areas covered—making readers feel as if they are experiencing living history. Each book features: * Two popout® maps—a historical map showing the area as it once was; and a modern map marking every stop on the tour and place mentioned in the text. * Additional color maps and up to 40-60 photos, both historical and modern * An introduction by an expert that sets the area in historical context * A timeline showing key historical events * A detailed walking tour of the present-day site, interspersed with first-hand accounts interspersed in the text or included as sidebars * Concise and colorful biographies of key historical figures * Where to stay and eat, and places to visit nearby Also available in the series: Antietam (978-0-7627-5328-4; 9/2009) Arlington National Cemetery (978-0-7627-5329-1; 9/2009) Fredericksburg (978-0-7627-5330-7; 1/2010) Gettysburg (978-0-7627-5331-4; 9/2009) Vicksburg (978-0-7627-5332-1; 1/2010) Washington, D.C. (978-0-7627-5333-8; 9/2009)

With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city’s African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society.

New Orleans Pelicans is a beginner's history of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans. Beginning with the franchise's early years, readers will experience the team's highest and lowest moments, meet the team's best players and managers, and gain the inside track on information that completes the team's story. Mini-biographies, fun facts, anecdotes, fantastic quotes, and sidebars combine with full-color, action-packed photographs to round out the story of the Pelicans, allowing your readers Inside the NBA! SportsZone is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

On February 10th, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. This work traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African American literary couple, drawing on a variety of resources.