Last Bus Out by Beck McDowell

Last Bus Out is the true story of Courtney Miles, a boy who stole a bus and rescued over 300 people from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. While government officials posed for cameras, Courtney stepped up and showed what “drive” is all about. Even though he had no driver’s license and very little driving experience, he risked arrest and imprisonment to save his neighbors. Despite raising himself while his mother was in jail, Courtney stayed out of trouble and is now playing basketball on scholarship at a college in California.

Last Bus Out by Beck McDowell Kirkland & Fort Available November 7, 2010 in Paperback Available August 21, 2010 as a Kindle Edition

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Never Cry Werewolf: A Crimson Moon Novel by L. A. Banks

St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Available 03/30/10 in Mass Market Paperback

The last fight between the werewolf clans spilled onto the streets of New Orleans — and now the whole city’s on red alert. Martial law has gone into effect. Mediums, ghost hunters, and other supernatural pundits have taken over the media, swarming the Big Easy to expose the hard truth about lycanthropes. And to make matters worse, a beastly killer is clawing up humans! Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau doesn’t like what she’s seeing — a series of brutal and bloody slayings that appear to be wolf-like attacks. It might be the work of a copy cat killer — vampire or Unseelie or some other enemy of the Seelie clan. But while Sasha races to find suspects and motives, the panic level is rising — and the city’s human population is clamoring for an all-out wolf hunt!

Yellow Moon by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Yellow Moon: A Novel
By Jewell Parker Rhodes

Available August 2008

A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood. What connects them? Why are they rising as ghosts?

Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, knows better than anyone New Orleans’s brutal past — the legacy of slavery, poverty, racism, and sexism — and as a doctor at Charity Hospital’s ER, she treats its current victims.

When she sleeps, she dreams of blood. Rain, never ending. The river is rising and the yellow moon warns of an ancient evil — an African vampire — wazimamoto — a spirit created by colonial oppression.

The struggle becomes personal, as the wazimamoto is intent on destroying her and all the Laveau descendants. Marie fights to protect her daughter, lover, and herself from the wazimamoto’s seductive assault on both body and spirit.

Echoing with the heartache and triumph of the African-American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of racial oppression, Yellow Moon gives us an unforgettable heroine — sexy, vulnerable, and mysterious — in Marie Levant, while it powerfully evokes a city on the brink of catastrophe.

Yellow Moon is part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Voodoo Season — magical realist fiction that takes the legend of the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, as imagined by Jewell Parker Rhodes in the bestselling Voodoo Dreams, into the present day.