Love, deception, betrayal, sex - every year, thousands of gay men find all of these and more in New Orleans during Southern Decadence, a Labor Day festival known to many as "the gay Mardi Gras". In his first book, following in the footsteps of such notable authors as Armistead Maupin, Felice Picano, and Ethan Mordden, Tony Whitt explores the variety of connections that gay men make in the famed Crescent City in fifteen stories drawn from real life...

128 all-color pages, cloth with dust jacket, 8.5x11". "An examination of Southern's passenger fleet - its trains, motive power, rolling stock and operations - from the 1940s until its reluctant entrance into Amtrak in 1979...

Color laminated hardcover, 8.5x11, 416 glossy pages, 380+ b/w photos, 75+ maps, 80+ timetables & schedules, 75+ miscellaneous tables, charts and sketches,bibliography, index. "This massive tome contains the detailed history of the Southern Railway's famed Appalachia Division (Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee to St...

Love, sex, deception, betrayal - every year, thousands of gay men find all of these and more in New Orleans during the annual Southern Decadence festival, a kind of gay Mardi Gras. In Crescent City Connections, Tony Whitt tells the stories of gay men such as Gabe, who discovers his perfect man as the result of a cruel game; Charles, who discovers that life goes on after the death of Princess Di; and Bill, who tries to make a relationship work while trapped in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina...

Dirk Pitt returns in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New York Times--bestselling author. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea...

All new seafood recipes plus variations on the Cajun-Creole standard of cooking.