The UL-Lafayette Press will holds
its annual Holiday Book Sale with authors signings and free refreshments from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the UL Alumni Center on campus. There will be signed copies
of select titles and several UL Press authors in attendance, including Wendy
Rodrigue, who wrote “The Other Side of the Painting” about her late husband,
artist George Rodrigue.
LSU Press and The Southern Review’s
Season’s Readings Holiday Book & Journal Sale will be 4:30 p.m. to 6:30
p.m. Tuesday at the Club on Union Square (formerly the Faculty Club), and will
include titles at 20 percent off, more than a dozen local authors, free gift
wrapping, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, coffee and a cash bar.
Special guests to sign copies of
LSU Press books will be Billy Cannon and his biographer Charles deGravelles; CC
Lockwood signing “Louisiana Wild;” Cynthia LeJeune Nobles, “A Confederacy of
Dunces Cookbook;” Gwen Roland, “Postmark Bayou Chene;” David Plater, “The
Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana;” Maggie Richardson, “Hungry for
Louisiana;” photographer Jenny Ellerbe and archaeologist Diana Greenlee,
“Poverty Point;” Barbara Sims, “The Next Elvis;” Michael Rubin, “The
Cottoncrest Curse;” Ronald Drez, “The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception;” Louisiana
Poet Laureate Ava Leavell Haymon; J. Michael Desmond, “The Architecture of LSU;”
David Baker, “Mike the Tiger;” editor Laura F. Lindsay, “Treasures of LSU;” Editors
Nolde Alexius and Judy Kahn, “Best of LSU Fiction;” and Mary Ann Sternberg,
“River Road Rambler.”For more information, contact LSU Press at (225) 578-8282 or visit www.lsupress.org.
Cheré Dastugue Coen is
the author of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country: A Historic Guide to Acadiana” and co-author of “Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris
Bags and Sachets.” She
also writes Louisiana romances under the pen name of Cherie Claire, “A
Cajun Dream” and “The
Letter.” Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.
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