Product Description: Our bodies are the vessels by which we preach the gospel. These vessels need to be healthy! Workout to maximize your reach out. The connection between faith and fitness, detailed workout plans, how to use your faith on purpose, all in one place!

Product Description: The Good Times Rolled comes from the French phrase laissez les bons temps rouler, which symbolizes the spirit of the city of New Orleans. Festive and flamboyant, the legendary Crescent City is a cauldron in which the spicy flavors of many different cultures and races have blended for nearly three centuries...read more

Product Description: In May 1959, Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long had a nervous breakdown while battling legislators to preserve the voting rights of black people. Committed by his family to three mental hospitals in the ensuing weeks, he finally managed to free himself, only to plunge into a torrid romance with a Bourbon Street stripper calld Blaze Starr...read more

Product Description: El legionario de Cristo / Vows of Silence

Tells the stories of Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, and Dr. John, and traces the development of New Orleans' music

Chronicles a legacy of secrecy and cover-ups by the Roman Catholic Church, describing abuses of power that have created tumultuous conflicts between the Church's hierarchy and its followers.

Product Description: "Last of the Red Hot Poppas will make you laugh and it will make you think rather more deeply than will make you comfortable, and in these wildly disjointed times that means this novel is not only a richly enjoyable read but an essential one...read more

Product Description: Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980) was an African-American self-taught artist, evangelist, musician, and poet who used her diverse talents as a vehicle for and extension of her profound religious faith. Morgan's life and art combine the African-American tradition of autonomous expression with a remarkable inherent artistic sensibility...read more

Chronicles a legacy of secrecy and cover-ups by the Roman Catholic Church, describing abuses of power that have created tumultuous conflicts between the Church's hierarchy and its followers.

The companion volume to the first comprehensive retrospective of Morgan's work chronicles the life and art of the self-taught African-American artist, evangelist, musician, and poet, who used her diverse talents as a extension of and voice for her profound religious faith.

Product Description: Since the late 1970s, Louisiana a state long known for outrageous politicians has witnessed a blossoming of the arts and their enthusiastic reception by a national, and even world-wide, audience. From John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces to James Lee Burke's detective Dave Robicheaux; from singers Fats Domino and Aaron Neville to jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis and his music-making family; from George Rodrigue's blue dog to Chef Paul Prudhomme's transcendent cooking the list is long for Louisiana talent...read more

An investigative look into cases of sexual abuse of boys by Catholic priests profiles the families and children who are struggling to regain faith and secure justice; the church officials struggling to cover up the scandal; and the abusive priests. (view table of contents)