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The Last Days of Dogtown : In the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century, Located on a Rocky Outcrop on Cape Ann, the Northernmost Boundary of Massachusetts Bay, There Was Once a Place Called Dogtown - a Miserable Place Really, Less A village.

by Anita Diamant

Published: 2005

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The Last Days of Dogtown

by Anita Diamant

Published: 2005

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel

by Anita Diamant

Published: 2006-07-18

Paperback: 288 pages

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“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review).Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Do...

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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

by Dominic Hoffman (Narrator) Walter Mosley (Author)

Published: 2000

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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

by Walter Mosley

Published: 2010-11-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time. Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only conn...

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Last Days of Summer Updated Ed: A Novel

by Steve Kluger

Published: 2008-06-03

Paperback: 368 pages

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Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen ch...

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The Last Days of the Incas

by Kim MacQuarrie

Published: 2008-06-05

Paperback: 522 pages

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In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar....

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The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal

by Sean Dixon

Published: 2009-04-28

Paperback: 304 pages

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The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they?ve made a few unfortunate compromises to their membership, some of them aren?t getting any younger, and they?ve been stuck on a single weepy tome for six long mon...

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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg

by Helen Rappaport

Published: 2010-01-19

Paperback: 288 pages

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Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family, in this first of two books about the Romanovs. Her second book The Romanov Sisters, offering a never-before-seen glimpse at the lives o...

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The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood

by Imogen de la Bere, Imogen de la Bere

Published: 1999-08-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Dangerously charming, Palliser Wentwood has run away to England, leaving behind his farm in New Zealand, his beautiful wife Salome, his daughters, and his many creditors. Palliser is in search of a fortune, enough to restore the prosperity of farm and family. In an English manor live the ...