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The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story

by Frances Kiernan

Published: 2008-05-17

Paperback: 317 pages

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"Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life."?O MagazineThe fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early ...

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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage)

by William Dalrymple

Published: 2008-03-11

Paperback: 592 pages

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Last Night at Chateau Marmont

by Lauren Weisberger

Published: 2011-10-03

Paperback: 604 pages

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Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag "Last Night." That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline.Brooke was drawn to the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter the very first time she heard him perform "Hallelujah" at a dark East Village dive bar.Now five years married, Brooke balances...

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Last Night at Chateau Marmont: A Novel

by Lauren Weisberger

Published: 2010-08-17

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That is, until her marriage became a weekly headline.Brooke was drawn to the soulful, enigmatic Julian Alter the very first time she heard him perform ?Hallelujah? at a dark East Village dive bar.Now five years married, Brooke...

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Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2007-11-01

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Stewart O�Nan has been called �the bard of the working class� and has now crafted a frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid workaday world seldom seen in contemporary fiction. Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, The Red Lobster hasn�t been ma...

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The Last Night at the Ritz (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries)

by Elizabeth Savage

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 196 pages

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Brazen, candid, and always willing to take chances, the unnamed and not entirely trustworthy narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz celebrates her birthday with three old and dear friends. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married couple and her best friends from college. The third, ...

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Last Night in Montreal

by Emily St. John Mandel

Published: 2010-04-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city,...

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Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel

by John Irving

Published: 2009-10-27

Hardcover: 576 pages

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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County?to Boston, to southern Verm...

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The Last Noel

by Heather Graham

Published: 2007-10-16

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Divided into 12 unevenly spaced vignettes--each set during the Christmas season--the plot traces the star-crossed friendship of Noni Tilden, daughter of her town's richest family, and Kaye King, grandson of Noni's mother's maid, across a span of four decades.

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The Last Nude

by Ellis Avery

Published: 2012-12-31

Paperback: 352 pages

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“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of RoomParis, 1927. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to support herself, Rafaela ...