1. Back toward the river : reminiscences of growing up in depression Louisiana Author/Creator: Busbice, E. Hollace Publication/Creation: Lafayette, La : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1989 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
2. Backwater and discharge at highway crossings with multiple bridges in Louisiana and Mississippi Author/Creator: Colson, B. E., author Publication/Creation: Jackson, Miss. : U.S. Geological Survey, 1983 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
3. Bad bet on the bayou : the rise of gambling in Louisiana and the fall of Governor Edwin Edwards Author/Creator: Bridges, Tyler Publication/Creation: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001 Format: Book Edition: 1st edition. Access & Availability: Loading
4. Bagasse furnace suit, compilation of testimony letters and other documentary evidence pertaining to the suit Author/Creator: Thompson, Moses Publication/Creation: [New Orleans?] : [publisher not identified], [1860?]] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
5. The ballot box, the palladium of our liberties : New Orleans, July, 1863 Author/Creator: Barker, Jacob, 1779-1871 Publication/Creation: [New Orleans] : Printed for the compiler, 1863 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
6. A banking history of Louisiana Author/Creator: Caldwell, Stephen Adolphus, 1889-1956 Publication/Creation: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1935 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
7. Barnes-Willis family papers, 1783-1840, Port Gibson and Washington, Mississippi, also Concordia Parish, Louisiana Publication/Creation: Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, [2001] Format: Book Is Part Of: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series G, Selections from the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Part 5, Natchez Trace Collection--other plantation collections, reel 15.Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series G, Selections from the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Part 5, Natchez Trace Collection--other plantation collections, reel 17. Access & Availability: Loading
8. Battle fields of Louisiana revisited a second time Author/Creator: McManus, Thomas Publication/Creation: Hartford, Conn. : Fowler & Miller Co., 1898 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
9. The battle for environmental justice in Louisiana : government, industry, and the people Author/Creator: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Louisiana Advisory Committee, author Publication/Creation: [Washington, District of Columbia] : United States Commission on Civil Rights, [1993] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
10. Battle of Fredericksburg Author/Creator: Baker, Henry H. Publication/Creation: New Orleans : [Ruskin Press], 1911 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
11. Bayou bluegrass Author/Creator: Smoak, Jim Publication/Creation: El Cerrito, CA : Arhoolie, [2002] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
12. Bayou boogie Author/Creator: Beausoleil (Musical group) Publication/Creation: Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder, [1987] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
13. Bayou boogie Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, [1987] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
14. Bayou Cadillac Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, [1989] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
15. Bayou country bloodsport : the culture of cockfighting in southern Louisiana Author/Creator: Donlon, Jon Griffin, 1951- Publication/Creation: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
16. Bayou deluxe : the best of Michael Doucet & Beausoleil Author/Creator: Doucet, Michael Publication/Creation: Los Angeles, CA : Rhino Records, [1993] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
17. Bayou dilemma : Louisiana in crisis and change Publication/Creation: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
18. Bayou folk Author/Creator: Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 Publication/Creation: Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
19. Bayou harvest : subsistence practice in coastal Louisiana Author/Creator: Regis, Helen A., 1965- author Publication/Creation: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
20. Bayou memories : Louisiana French folk songs and dance tunes Author/Creator: Dôle, Gérard. performer Publication/Creation: N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity] : Folkways, [1982] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
21. Bayou Petit Anse and Bayou Carlin, La : hearings before the United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Seventy-Second Congress, first session, on Mar. 29, 1932 Author/Creator: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors Publication/Creation: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1932 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
22. Bayou ruler Author/Creator: Riley, Steve (Singer) Publication/Creation: Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder, [1998] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
23. Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge Author/Creator: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publication/Creation: Washington : [s.n.], 1986 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
24. Bayou St. John in colonial Louisiana, 1699-1803 Author/Creator: Freiberg, Edna B., 1917- Publication/Creation: New Orleans, La. : Freiberg, [1980] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
25. The Bayou trilogy Author/Creator: Woodrell, Daniel Publication/Creation: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2011 Format: Book Edition: 1st omnibus edition. Access & Availability: Loading
26. Bayous Grand Caillou, Pelton, and Le Carpe, La : hearings before the United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Seventy-Second Congress, first session, on Mar. 29, 1932 Author/Creator: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors Publication/Creation: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1932 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
27. The bayous of Louisiana Author/Creator: Kane, Harnett T. 1910-1984. (Harnett Thomas) Publication/Creation: New York : W. Morrow & company, 1944 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
28. Bayside Plantation records, 1846-1866, Iberia and St. Landry parishes, Louisiana Author/Creator: Richardson, Francis DuBose, 1812-1858 Publication/Creation: Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, [1990] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
29. Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers : classics Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, 2003 Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
30. Beau Jocque boogie Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, 1993 Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
31. Beau solo Author/Creator: Doucet, Michael Publication/Creation: El Cerrito, CA : Arhoolie, [1989] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
32. Becoming free, becoming Black : race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Author/Creator: Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963- author Publication/Creation: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
33. Becoming free, becoming Black : race, freedom, and law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Author/Creator: Fuente, Alejandro de la, 1963- author Publication/Creation: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
34. Becoming one people : a history of Louisiana Methodism Author/Creator: Vernon, Walter N. Publication/Creation: [Louisiana] : History Task Group, Commission on Archives and History, Louisiana Conference, United Methodist Church, [1987] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
35. Befo' de war spirituals : words and melodies Author/Creator: McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949 Publication/Creation: Boston : The Christopher publishing house, [1933] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
36. Beirut on the Bayou : Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon Author/Creator: Shwayri, Raïf, author Publication/Creation: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2015 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
37. Beirut on the Bayou Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the making of modern Lebanon Author/Creator: Shwayri, Raïf, author Publication/Creation: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
38. The Belcher Mound : a stratified Caddoan site in Caddo Parish, Louisiana Author/Creator: Webb, Clarence H. Publication/Creation: Salt Lake City : [Society for American Archaeology], 1959 Format: Book Is Part Of: Bound with: E51 .S7 NO.11-17 ; Seminars in archaeology: 1955. Access & Availability: Loading
39. Beneath heavy pines in World War II Louisiana : the Japanese American internment experience at Camp Livingston Author/Creator: Johnson, Hayley, 1982- author Publication/Creation: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
40. Benjamin Kendrick papers, 1807-1858 (1806-1894?), East Feliciana and West Feliciana parishes, Louisiana Author/Creator: Kendrick, Benjamin Publication/Creation: Bethesda, Md. : University Publications of America, [1989] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
41. Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes papers, 1811-1860, Natchez, Mississippi, also Louisiana Author/Creator: Wailes, Benjamin L. C. 1797-1862. (Benjamin Leonard Covington) Publication/Creation: Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, ©2001 Format: Book Is Part Of: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series G, Selections from the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Part 5, Natchez Trace Collection--other plantation collections, reel 37. Access & Availability: Loading
42. Benjamin Roach family papers, 1831-1867, Natchez, Mississippi, also Louisiana Author/Creator: Roach, Benjamin Publication/Creation: Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, [2001] Format: Book Is Part Of: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series G, Selections from the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Part 5, Natchez Trace Collection--other plantation collections, reel 36. Access & Availability: Loading
43. Benton's Row Author/Creator: Yerby, Frank, 1916-1991 Publication/Creation: New York : Dial Press, [1954] Format: Book Edition: [Book Club edition]. Access & Availability: Loading
44. Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783 Author/Creator: Caughey, John Walton, 1902-1995 Publication/Creation: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1934 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
45. The best of Clifton Chenier : the king of zydeco & Louisiana blues Author/Creator: Chenier, Clifton, 1925-1987 Publication/Creation: El Cerrito, CA : Arhoolie, [2003] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
46. The best of Louisiana music Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, 1993 Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
47. The best of the crawfish years, 1985-1991 Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, 2001 Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
48. The best of the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band Author/Creator: Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band Publication/Creation: El Cerrito, CA : Arhoolie, [2002] Format: Sound Recording Access & Availability: Loading
49. Beyond Freedom’s Reach : A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery Author/Creator: Rothman, Adam, author Publication/Creation: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] Format: Book Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only Access & Availability: Loading
50. Beyond freedom's reach : a kidnapping in the twilight of slavery Author/Creator: Rothman, Adam, 1971- author Publication/Creation: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
51. Beyond racism and poverty : the truck system on Louisiana plantations and Dutch peateries, 1865-1920 Author/Creator: Lurvink, Karin, author Publication/Creation: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2018 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
52. Beyond racism and poverty : the truck system on Louisiana plantations and Dutch peateries, 1865-1920 Author/Creator: Lurvink, Karin, author Publication/Creation: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
53. Beyond racism and poverty : the truck system on Louisiana plantations and Dutch peateries, 1865-1920 Author/Creator: Lurvink, Karin Publication/Creation: Leiden : Brill, 2017 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
54. Beyond telling : stories Author/Creator: Mogan, Jewel Publication/Creation: Princeton : Ontario Review Press, [1995] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
55. Bibliographical history of Louisiana civil law sources : Roman, French and Spanish, with an added section on modern French research materials Author/Creator: Wallach, Kate, author Publication/Creation: [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2018] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
56. A bibliography of fiction by Louisianians and on Louisiana subjects Author/Creator: McVoy, Lizzie Carter Publication/Creation: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1935 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
57. A bibliography of Louisiana books and pamphlets : in the T. P. Thompson Collection of the University of Alabama Library Author/Creator: University of Alabama. Library. T. P. Thompson Collection Publication/Creation: University : University of Alabama Press, 1947 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
58. Bibliography of New Orleans imprints, 1764-1864 Author/Creator: Jumonville, Florence M. Publication/Creation: New Orleans, LA : Historic New Orleans Collection, 1989 Format: Book Edition: 1st edition. Access & Availability: Loading
59. A bibliography of scholarly literature on colonial Louisiana and New France Author/Creator: Brasseaux, Carl A. Publication/Creation: Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, [1992] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
60. Bibliography of the official publications of Louisiana, 1803-1934 Author/Creator: Foote, Lucy B. 1893-1973. (Lucy Brown) Publication/Creation: Baton Rouge, La. : Hill memorial library, Louisiana state university, 1942 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
61. Biennial report Author/Creator: Louisiana. State Board of Charities and Corrections Publication/Creation: New Orleans, Louisiana : State Board of Charities and Corrections Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
62. Biennial report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to the General Assembly of Louisiana : reformatted from the original and including, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to the General Assembly of Louisiana, ... Special session, 1881; and, Biennial report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration to the General Assembly of Louisiana, ... 1882 Author/Creator: Louisiana. Bureau of Agriculture and Immigration Publication/Creation: New Orleans : Printed by E.A. Brandao, State Printer Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
63. Biennial report of the Louisiana Highway Commission of the state of Louisiana to the Governor and members of the legislature for the period ... Author/Creator: Louisiana Highway Commission Publication/Creation: [Baton Rouge, La.?] : [The Commission?] Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
64. Biennial report of the Louisiana Tax Commission for the years Author/Creator: Louisiana Tax Commission Publication/Creation: Baton Rouge : The Commission, 1942- Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
65. Biennial report of the Register of the State Land Office to the Governor Author/Creator: Louisiana. State Land Office Publication/Creation: [Baton Rouge, La.] : [Office of the Register of the State Land Office]. Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
66. Biennial report of the Secretary of State of the state of Louisiana for the two years ending May 1 ... to his excellency ... Governor of Louisiana : reformatted from the original and including, Annual report of the Secretary of State, state of Louisiana ... (1878); and, Biennial report of the Secretary of State of the state of Louisiana for the two years ending May 1 ... to his excellency ... Governor of Louisiana ... (1882). Author/Creator: Louisiana. Department of State Publication/Creation: New Orleans : Printed by the Democrat Publishing Company Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
67. Biennial report of the Supervisor of Public Funds to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Louisiana Author/Creator: Louisiana. Supervisor of Public Funds Publication/Creation: [Baton Rouge] : [The Supervisor] Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
68. Biennial reports ... Department of Military Affairs and Selective Service System, state of Louisiana Publication/Creation: New Orleans, La. : State of Louisiana, Office of the Adjutant General, 1944-1952 Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
69. Bienville : father of Louisiana Author/Creator: Hauck, Philomena Publication/Creation: Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, [1998] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
70. The big door prize : a novel Author/Creator: Walsh, M. O. (Milton O'Neal), author Publication/Creation: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2020] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
71. The big fix Publication/Creation: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2011 Format: Video or Visual Material Access & Availability: Loading
72. Big gay wedding : a novel Author/Creator: Lane, Byron, 1978- author Publication/Creation: New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023 Format: Book Edition: First edition. Access & Availability: Loading
73. The big lie : Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez in 1951 Author/Creator: Boulard, Garry Publication/Creation: Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 2001 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
74. A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program : report (to accompany S. 3264) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). Author/Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publication/Creation: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [2012] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
75. A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program : report (to accompany S. 3264) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). Author/Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publication/Creation: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [2012] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
76. Bill To Authorize the Project for Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction, Morganza, Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River and Tributaries Author/Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publication/Creation: Washington : [s.n.], 2002 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
77. A bill to authorize the project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Morganza, Louisiana to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River and tributaries : report (to accompany S. 2975) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). Author/Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publication/Creation: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [2002] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
78. Biogeochemical cycling of carbon and related elements in the coastal wetlands of Louisiana Publication/Creation: [Reston, Va.?] : [Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey], [1995] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
79. Biographical and historical memoirs of northwest Louisiana : comprising a large fund of biography of actual residents, and an interesting historical sketch of thirteen counties Publication/Creation: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [date of publication not identified] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
80. Biographical and historical memoirs of northwest Louisiana : comprising a large fund of biography of actual residents, and an interesting historical sketch of thirteen counties Publication/Creation: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [date of publication not identified] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
81. The bird fauna of two sections Author/Creator: Kopman, Henry Hazlitt Publication/Creation: Covington, Louisiana : [publisher not identified], 1899 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
82. The bird life of Louisiana Author/Creator: Oberholser, Harry C. 1870-1963. (Harry Church) Publication/Creation: New Orleans : Dept. of Conservation, State of Louisiana, 1938 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
83. The birds of Louisiana Author/Creator: Arthur, Stanley Clisby Publication/Creation: [New Orleans] : [publisher not identified], [1918] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
84. The bishop of the Old South : the ministry and Civil War legacy of Leonidas Polk Author/Creator: Robins, Glenn Publication/Creation: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2006] Format: Book Edition: 1st edition. Access & Availability: Loading
85. Black art in Louisiana Author/Creator: Proctor, Bernardine B. Publication/Creation: Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, [1989] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
86. Black cameos Author/Creator: Kennedy, R. Emmet 1877-1941. (Robert Emmet) Publication/Creation: New York : A. & C. Boni, 1924 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
87. Black code : an act prescribing the rules and conduct to be observed with respect to Negroes and other slaves of this territory Author/Creator: Territory of Orleans Publication/Creation: New Orleans : [publisher not identified], 1807 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
88. Black Creole chronicles : poems Author/Creator: Saloy, Mona Lisa, author Publication/Creation: New Orleans, Louisiana : University of New Orleans Press, [2023] Format: Book Edition: First edition. Access & Availability: Loading
89. Black legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction Author/Creator: Vincent, Charles, 1945- Publication/Creation: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2011] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
90. Black legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction Author/Creator: Vincent, Charles, 1945- Publication/Creation: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1976] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
91. Black legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction Author/Creator: Vincent, Charles, 1945- Publication/Creation: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011 Format: Book Edition: Southern Illinois University Press pbk. ed. Access & Availability: Loading
92. Black litigants in the antebellum American South Author/Creator: Welch, Kimberly M., author Publication/Creation: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
93. Black litigants in the antebellum American South Author/Creator: Welch, Kimberly M., author Publication/Creation: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
94. Black litigants in the antebellum American South Author/Creator: Welch, Kimberly M., author Publication/Creation: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
95. Black litigants in the antebellum American South Author/Creator: Welch, Kimberly M., author Publication/Creation: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
96. The Black Republican Publication/Creation: New Orleans [La.] : Black Republican Newspaper Association, 1865 Format: Journal, Newspaper or Serial Access & Availability: Loading
97. Black sheep boy : a novel in stories Author/Creator: Pousson, Martin, author Publication/Creation: Los Angeles, CA : Barnacle/Rare Bird Books, [2016] Format: Book Edition: First hardcover edition. Access & Availability: Loading
98. Black tide : voices from the Gulf Publication/Creation: [Vancouver, British Columbia] : [Distributed by Global Environmental Justice Documentaries Project], [2011] Format: Video or Visual Material Access & Availability: Loading
99. Black women writers of Louisiana : telling their stories Author/Creator: Dobie, Ann B., author Publication/Creation: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2022 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading
100. Blackbird Author/Creator: Wright, Tom, 1953 April 28- author Publication/Creation: New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2015 Format: Book Access & Availability: Loading