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Crawfish Mountain
A Novel
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2008
104 kr
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Ken Wells’s highly acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou novels introduced “one of the most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade” ( Los Angeles Times ). Now Wells is back, writing about his favorite subject–the exotic, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a sharp, rollicking tale of …
Rascal: A Dog and His Boy
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2010
84 kr
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Rascal may be the happiest beagle ever to live. He used to live on Voclain’s Farm, with its whole jambalaya of dogs, but now he lives with his very own boy, Meely. Together they explore the Louisiana bayou, bunny chasin’, coon and squirrel huntin’, and crawfishin’. But when Meely gets stuck on a …
Gumbo Life
Tales from the Roux Bayou
Av Ken Wells
Inbunden, 2019
340 kr
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Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: “Momma.” The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German …
Floating Off the Page
The Best Stories from The Wall Street Journal's "Middle Column"
Häftad, 2003
207 kr
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On any given day, millions of Wall Street Journal readers put aside the serious business and economic news of the day to focus first on the paper's middle column (a.k.a. the A-hed), a virtual sound-bubble for light literary fare -- a short story, a tall tale, an old yarn, a series of vignettes, and …
Herd on the Street: Animal Stroies from the Wall Street Journal
Inbunden, 2003
177 kr
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For more than sixty years, The Wall Street Journal has prided itself not just on its serious journalism, but also on the whimsical and arcane stories that amuse and delight its readers. In that regard, animal stories have proven to be the most beloved of all. Now, veteran Journal reporter and Page …
Boudin
Av Ken Wells
Häftad, 2026
239 kr
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"Boudin is what the gods would eat if the gods were looking for the transcendent; a dish as satisfying to the soul as it is to the palate." So writes Ken Wells, Louisiana native and boudin hound, in this lively travelogue through the aromatic precincts of the makers, sellers, and connoisseurs of …
Herd on the Street
Animal Stories from The Wall Street Journal
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2007
186 kr
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For more than sixty years, The Wall Street Journal has prided itself not just on its serious journalism, but also on the whimsical and arcane stories that amuse and delight its readers. In that regard, animal stories have proven to be the most beloved of all. Now, veteran Journal reporter and Page …
Travels with Barley
A Journey Through Beer Culture in America
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2007
226 kr
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Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer? Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by …
Floating Off the Page
The Best Stories from The Wall Street Journal''s "M
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2008
213 kr
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On any given day, millions of Wall Street Journal readers put aside the serious business and economic news of the day to focus first on the paper''s middle column (a. k.a. the A-hed), a virtual sound-bubble for light literary fare -- a short story, a tall tale, an old yarn, a series of vignettes, …
Crawfish Mountain
A Novel
Av Ken Wells
Ljudbok, 2009
449 kr
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Justin Pitre was born and raised on his grandfather’s Louisiana bayou, and he has made a promise to keep his family’s prized 500-acre property safe. But across town, Big-Tex oil bigwig Tom Huff and his company have major plans to cash in on the resources that lie below the bayou by ramming a …
The 7 Pillars of Workplace Mastery: For Those Who Want Far More From Their Time Spent at Work
Av Ken Wells
Häftad
240 kr
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Junior's Leg
A Novel
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2001
82 kr
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Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School, Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He''s survived an oil-rig accident that would''ve killed most men but, with the help of a good lawyer, …
Meely LaBauve
A Novel
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2002
108 kr
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Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. His father is an alligator hunter, still unable to cope with the death of his wife eight years earlier. He finds comfort in bottles of hooch and with companionable women and disappears for days at a time. …
Logan's Storm
A Novel
Av Ken Wells
E-bok, 2013
82 kr
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The capstone of Ken Wells’s acclaimed Catahoula Bayou trilogy, Logan’s Storm tracks the epic journey of Logan LaBauve as he flees corrupt cops while trying to lead Chilly Cox—the teenager whose “crime” was rescuing Logan’s son, Meely, from a racist bully—to safety. But dodging two-footed predators …
Gumbo Life
A Journey Down the Roux Bayou
Av Ken Wells
Häftad, 2024
184 kr
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Straight from the roux bayou, a culinary memoir about how a centuries old Cajun and Creole secret―gumbo―has become one of the world’s most beloved dishes.The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West …
Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Av Ken Wells
Häftad, 2015
154 kr
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How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history—only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begunWith a long and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St. …
