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The Last Tsar - Edvard Radzinsky
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying... -
The Last Manchu - Henry Pu Yi
In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young em... -
The Last Light of the Sun - Guy Gavriel Kay
From Publishers WeeklyIn this wonderfully imaginative historical fantasy from Kay (A Song for Arbonne), seemingly random deeds connect Erling (Viking) raiders and Anglcyn (English)... -
The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones
SUMMARY: In her satisfying, sensual third novel, Nicole Mones takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in... -
The Last Camel Died at Noon - Elizabeth Peters
From Publishers WeeklyIf Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson, an archeologist whose extraordinary adventur... -
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Amazon.com ReviewIf you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl u... -
The Lady & Sons Savannah Countr - Paula H. Deen
From Publishers WeeklyIn his enthusiastic introduction, John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, writes: "Authentic Southern food is not about pretension." ... -
The Jewel Box - Anna Davis
From Publishers WeeklySex and the City meets London's Roaring '20s in Davis's satisfying fifth novel. Grace Rutherford leads a double life: by day she's an advertising copywriter .... -
The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
From Publishers WeeklyIn this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to The Atrocity Archives (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer übergeek employed by the .... -
The House of Rothschild_ . Mone - Niall Ferguson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynastyIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusi...