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Margaret Media, Inc. is a gateway to Louisiana's colorful history with books on Creoles, their culture, language and CDs of their music, women's history, movies set in New Orleans, architecture, Mississippi River lore, fiction by local authors.

We are actively seeking manuscripts on the above and other topics for publication. See Publishing Guidelines page.  

New Books!

Details, order form coming very soon.....New Orleans Goes to the Movies: Movie Sites in the French Quarter and Beyond by Alan Leonhard, Metairie, LA.
A complete guide for the movie buff. Twenty classics filmed in and around New Orleans are discussed with the effect the city had on the film and vice versa. Examples are Streetcar Named Desire, King Creole, Saratoga Trunk and the Big Easy. The book includes a walking tour of the French Quarter and a St. Charles Ave. streetcar ride to see film locations and other important sites for the moviegoer. Pen and ink sketches illustrate throughout.
ISBN 978-0-9616377-9-8; 272 pages, price $15.95
 
Matters of the Heart: A Creole Love Story by Mary M. Culver, Covington.
An historical romance set in mid-19th century Louisiana. Torn by love and loyalty to his traditional plantation wife and his side family with a free woman of color in New Orleans, Emile de Marigny maneuvers love’s minefields, interrupted by a stint in the War with Mexico. Culver takes us into the vortex of this Creole dilemma.
ISBN 978-0-9616377-8-1; trade paperback , 336 pp.
 

Other Recent Titles

Marietta’s House: A Grandmother’s Cottage   Text by J.E. Bourgoyne, photos by J.G. Tyburski, Plaquemine.
A photographic tour of an 1880s cypress home in the river town of Old Turnerville. Bourgoyne lovingly guides us, his childhood memories infusing each page. Tyburski's studied eye captures the nostalgia of rooms, furnishings and gardens from the past.
ISBN 978-0-9616377-5-0; hardcover w/dust jacket, 272 pp.
 
Down at the End of the River by Angus Woodward, Baton Rouge.
A short story collection capturing the soul of south Louisiana. A hilarious and poignant debut for Woodward, widely published in literary journals.
ISBN 978-0-9616377-6-7; trade paperback, 144 pp.
 

 
Books, articles and photos by Mary Gehman
The Free People of Color of New Orleans Women and New Orleans
a history
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Les gens de couleur libre -- thousands of urbane, educated free blacks in N.O. long before the Civil War, their story rarely told Creole belles, nuns, slave women, quadroons and voodoo queens-- women's history unique to New Orleans
Touring Louisiana's Great
River Road
The Mississippi from Angola North
to Venice South

Articles by Mary Gehman
Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Photo Gallery
 Six Month Update
 Journal 2006
 

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The Mexico-Louisiana Creole Connection

 

Guide to 300 miles along the river, east and west banks; local maps, what to see, what to do, where to eat and overnight.
 

Books and Music by Sybil Kein
Learn To Speak Louisiana French Creole Maw-Maw's Creole ABC Book
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Unique language workbook with pronunciation guide. No knowledge of French necessary.

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Comprehensive bilingual Louisiana French Creole teaching book for children, beautifully illustrated. 

Gumbo People Music
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Louisiana Creole language in poetry and song. Sheet music, essays on current day Creole speakers.

Our CD, Gardenias y Rosas, contains songs from the book, brings them to life!

A collection of CD's featuring Sybil Kein and other artists. Hear a live MP3 selection!

Book by Nina Haydel
The Creole Cats Come to Louisiana
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A lovely story explaining the multi-cultural history of Louisiana Creoles as told by a family of multi-colored cats and kittens.

 
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