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The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration

by Simon Nasht

Published: 2011-04-18

Paperback: 384 pages

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In the tradition of The Ice Master and The Endurance, the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history: no one saw with his own...

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The Last Fine Time

by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Published: 2004-04-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history, The Last Fine Time is a tour de force of lyrical style. Verlyn Klinkenborg chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days as a prewar Polish tavern to its reincarnation as George & Eddie's, a swa...

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The Last Fix

by K.O. Dahl

Published: 2010-03-30

Hardcover: 384 pages

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An intricate psychological thriller from the master of Norwegian crimewriting? the latest in the Oslo Detective's series A recovering drug addict, Katrine Bratterud, is almost finished with her time in rehab. One evening, contemplating her success at the shore of a lake, she senses that s...

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The Last Ghost Dancer

by Tony Bender

Published: 2010-07-20

Hardcover: 256 pages

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?This is a remarkable coming-of-age story and spiritual journey with as much between the lines as in them. Sometimes wry, always thoughtful, the characters seem to live and breathe, and you won?t soon forget them.??Senator Byron Dorgan The Last Ghost Dancer is more than a coming-of-age fab...

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The Last Girls

by Lee Smith

Published: 2003-09-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.Thirty-five...

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The Last Great Dance on Earth

by Sandra Gulland

Published: 2000-11-02

Paperback: 373 pages

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The Last Hundred Days: A Novel

by Patrick McGuinness

Published: 2012-05-22

Paperback: 384 pages

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Once the gleaming "Paris of the East," Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia, in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews, grocery shelves are empty, and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis, a you...

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The Last Jew

by Noah Gordon

Published: 2002-05-14

Paperback: 348 pages

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In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict. Many who wish to remain a...

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The Last Juror

by John Grisham

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 416 pages

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In 1970, one of Mississippi’s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutall...

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The Last Kashmiri Rose

by Barbara Cleverly

Published: 2006-07-25

Paperback: 310 pages

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In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured...