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Ken Wells is a senior writer and features editor for page one of The Wall Street Journal. In 1982, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Miami Herald. He lives with his family outside Manhattan.



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Meely LaBauve
Meely LaBauve
Written by Ken Wells
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375758164
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Meely LaBauve
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $14.00

Fifteen-year-old Meely LaBauve is growing up on Catahoula Bayou and living by his wits. Not since Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi has there been a coming-of-age story like this, told in such an utterly authentic unlettered American voice. From a charming encounter with first love in the Canciennes' corn patch... Read more >
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Logan's Storm
Logan's Storm
Written by Ken Wells
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375760679
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Logan's Storm
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $12.95

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 “crime” was rescuing Logan’s son, Meely, from a racist bully—to safety. But dodging two-footed predators deep in the Cajun backwaters... Read more >
Junior's Leg
Junior's Leg
Written by Ken Wells
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375760327
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Junior's Leg
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $12.95

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 survived an oil-rig accident that would've killed most men but, with the help of a good lawyer, made... Read more >
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Crawfish Mountain
Crawfish Mountain
Written by Ken Wells
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375508769
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Crawfish Mountain
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $25.95

Ken Wells’s highly acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou novels introduced “one of the most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade” (Los Angeles Times). Now Wells is back, writing about his favorite subject–the exotic, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a sharp, rollicking tale of corporate corruption and political shenanigans. The fight over one... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Crawfish Mountain
Crawfish Mountain
Written by Ken Wells
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307518255
Our Price: $25.95
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Crawfish Mountain
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $25.95

Ken Wells’s highly acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou novels introduced “one of the most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade” (Los Angeles Times). Now Wells is back, writing about his favorite subject–the exotic, beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a sharp, rollicking tale of corporate corruption and political shenanigans. The fight over one... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.
Junior's Leg
Junior's Leg
Written by Ken Wells
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588360243
Our Price: $12.95
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Junior's Leg
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2001
Price: $12.95

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 survived an oil-rig accident that would've killed most men but, with the help of a good lawyer, made... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
Meely LaBauve
Meely LaBauve
Written by Ken Wells
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588361011
Our Price: $14.00
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Meely LaBauve
A Novel
Written by Ken Wells

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 29, 2002
Price: $14.00

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 finds comfort in bottles of hooch and with companionable women and disappears for days at a time... Read more >
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