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By Ken Wells

Meely LaBauve: A Novel

By Ken Wells

"Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. His father is an alligator hunter, still unable to cope with the death of his wife eight years earlier. He f...

Logan's Storm: A Novel

By Ken Wells

"Logan's Storm tracks the epic journey of Logan LaBauve, Meely's widowed father, and Chilly Cox, a black teenager accosted by the police for his "crime" of rescuing Meely from a bully. As they fle...

Junior's Leg: A Novel

By Ken Wells

"Wells shows his range by taking us into the mind and life of Meely's arch-nemesis, the schoolyard bully Junior Guidry. We catch up with Junior a dozen years later, living broke, drunk, and one-leg...

Crawfish mountain

By Ken Wells

When Texas oilman Tom Huff uses underhanded methods and extortion to force a pipeline through Justin Pitre's Louisiana wetland paradise, Justin and his wife Grace launch a desperate campaign to sto...

Junior's Leg

By Ken Wells

Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School, Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He's...

Logan's Storm

By Ken Wells

The capstone of Ken Wells’s acclaimed Catahoula Bayou trilogy, Logan’s Storm tracks the epic journey of Logan LaBauve as he flees corrupt cops while trying to lead Chilly Cox—the teenager whose “cr...

Rascal

By Ken Wells

Told from the point of view of Rascal, a dog, this story recounts his adventures with his boy, Meely, in the Lousiana bayou.

Gumbo Life

By Ken Wells

Logan s Storm

By Ken Wells