Bøger af Roy LeBlanc

In a city brimming with cultural turmoil amid a push for racial equality, one young boy with a heart of gold witnesses astonishing changes in 1970s New Orleans.Sixth-grader French Fry and his group of misfit friends are growing up during the first years of desegregation at their public elementary school. Even though the change is slow and the conflict is high, they are often blind to injustice. The friends ultimately handle the transformation of their town very differently but remain loyal to one another-despite the many reasons that threaten to tear them apart.But can an evolving world truly never impact them, especially when family dynamics come into play? One thing is certain: in a place set on change, some things might just stay the same.Author Roy LeBlanc's sweeping novel reminds readers of the power of childhood innocence and the importance of heroes...no matter their color.Roy LeBlanc holds an Associate Degree of Arts from Delgado Community College, as well as Bachelor of Arts and Master of Liberal Arts degrees from Tulane University. He grew up in a blue-collar family rooted in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. This upbringing continues to greatly influence his writing.By twenty-four years old, he was an elected member of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. He is the author of six books, including The Newspaper Shack.LeBlanc and his wife split their time between Georgia and Alabama.

In Comfortable Graves we meet two lifelong friends, Clarence and Andre. Growing up in New Orleans, the boys have always had each other's backs. Andre helps Clarence get through middle school, high school and college by writing his papers and doing his math homework. In return, Clarence, a good-natured, blue-eyed Creole, protects Andre from bullies in school. As adults, Clarence and Andre find themselves in Poplar Grove, a small Mississippi town with a big problem. It's a town with terrible secrets, shocking scandals, and corruption at all levels. With Andre's intelligence and legal background and Clarence's generous heart and charisma, the men make a dynamic team, overcoming unimaginable bigotry and righting old wrongs. Set against a backdrop of larger-than-life characters, sexual perversion, greed, murder, and political corruption, Comfortable Graves is the story of friendship, and the remarkable capacity devoted friends have to change people's lives for the better.

Beneath the New Orleans pizzazz is a heritage of pollution, class inequality and unethical business that puts profit before the well-being of employees and the environment. Sebastian Delacroix experiences this first hand while watching his father toil as a mechanic at an aluminum plant fraught with daily hazards that take a toll on workers' physical health and the surrounding environment. Eventually, Chalmette Aluminum's promises of prosperity becomes a death sentence for Sebastian's father and many others. Its history of bribery and cover-ups gives birth to a cycle of environmental and social destruction in the working-class community. The odds are against a blue-collar kid breaking the barrier of inequality, yet Sebastian forges ahead with his plans to show the the world that hydrogen is indeed the fuel of the future. But first he must break down the barriers to education that have trapped blue-collar kids for generations so that he can become a young man who saves the world. The Hydrogen Frontier unveils the truth about climate change through an historical and scientific lens and asks the question: What are you doing to stop global warming? The world could be one engineer away from a breakthrough.

Desmond Dupree is torn between two exciting career opportunities, work on Wall Street as an investment banker or fly Navy fighter jets. He picks Wall Street because he is tired of being poor. Desmond is determined to do great things and he achieves more than he ever dreamed possible. He creates great personal wealth investing in beach front real estate and even has an impact on global bond markets. Then the global economic crash hits and all chaos breaks lose for Desmond and the world! His wife is arrested and he is locked away that the Angola State Penitentiary. But, even then, Desmond finds a way. He is after all, an American Capitalist.