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The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel

by Nicole Mones

Published: 2008-06-06

Paperback: 300 pages

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This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the best-selling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Mones’s captivating story also brings into focus a changing China -- this time the hidd...

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The Last Cowgirl: A Novel

by Jana Richman

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 302 pages

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Dickie Sinfield was seven years old when her father uprooted the family from their comfortable suburban home and moved them to a small, run-down ranch in Clayton, Utah, where he could chase his dream of? being a cowboy. Dickie always hated the cattle-ranching lifestyle, and as soon as she...

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The Last Crossing

by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Published: 2005-02-03

Paperback: 480 pages

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Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of interwoven lives and stories Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American We...

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Last Dance At Jitterbug Lounge

by Pamela Morsi

Published: 2012-08-15

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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Sometimes the sweet sounds of remembered melodies can reignite the heart…Jack and Claire Crabtree were once happily married, but separate interests have left each one dancing to their own tune. She refuses to move into the brand-new house he built for the family. He spends too much time ...

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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...