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The Last Hero_ A Life of Henry - Howard Bryant
SUMMARY: In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron's reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (RBIs, total bases, extra-base hits) and set... -
The Last Four Things - Paul Hoffman
The epic story of Thomas Cale-introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God—continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of hu... -
The Last Empress - Anchee Min
Amazon.com ReviewPower is a here-today, gone-tomorrow concept in Chinese history, especially for women. In her previous novel, Empress Orchid, Anchee Min covered the first part of.... -
The Last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde
In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in the magic release form B1-7g. But somewhere, someh... -
The Last Don - Mario Puzo
Amazon.com ReviewMario Puzo, author of The Godfather, knows a thing or two about the Mafia and about the movie business; here he brings them together. In the prologue, a Mafia don.... -
The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl
SUMMARY: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arriva... -
The Last Days of Krypton - Kevin J. Anderson
From Publishers WeeklyAs seen on film and TV, the Phantom Zone where Superman's enemies are exiled is insubstantial and two-dimensional, much like this chronicle of the death of th... -
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing—but a search party is on the way! A bevy... -
The Last Colony - John Scalzi
John Perry has at last found peace in a violent universe, living quietly with his family in one of humanity's many colonies. It's a good life, yet there's something . . . missin... -
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...