* _Rain and Hail and Snow:_ A Louisiana Swamp Story (1997)
* _The Deep End_: A Bayou Lafourche Story (2000)
* _Bayou Farewell:_ A Family Story of Love and Loss (2004)
* _Cajun Time:_ A Novel of Southwest Louisiana (2010)
* _The Last Song of the Mockingbird:_ A Novel of World War II (2013)
* _When the Bayou was a Farm:_ A Novel of Southwest Louisiana (2020)
NonFiction:
* _Swamp Stories:_ Folktales from Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin (1996)
* _The Cajuns:_ A Cultural History (1999)
* _Acadian and Creole Music and Culture in Southwest Louisiana:_ An Illustrated Compendium (2019)