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The Last Original Wife

The Last Original Wife
  • Author(s): Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley’s successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children—who they promised to love and cherish ’til death did them part—for...

The Last Paper Crane

The Last Paper Crane
  • Author(s): Kerry Drewery, Natsko Seki (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Hiroshima
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what...

The Last Party

The Last Party
  • Author(s): Clare Mackintosh
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On New Year’s Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His lakeside holiday homes are a success, and he’s generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. This will be the party to...

The Last Pearl

The Last Pearl
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): York, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1879

1879, York. Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long fingers and appreciation of beauty persuade Saul to train...

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Beth Merlin, Danielle Modafferi
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a young woman hits rock bottom, she embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty and warmhearted novel about past regrets, old loves, new beginnings, and making up for lost time. Avery Lawrence thought she had it...

The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night café. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn’t know better than to sweep...

The Last Place You Look

The Last Place You Look
  • Author(s): Kristen Lepionka
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager, disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton – black and from the wrong side of the tracks – was...

The Last Prince of Florence

The Last Prince of Florence
  • Author(s): Zoe Sivak
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1490

Based on the true story of Alessandro de’ Medici, this sweeping novel follows a Black woman’s secret plot to put her son on a Renaissance throne. In 1490, a dark-skinned baby girl arrives at the Santo Spirito foundling hospital...

The Last Princess

The Last Princess
  • Author(s): Ellen Alpsten
  • Location(s): Denmark, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1066

Young and beautiful Gytha Godwinson is the envy of England when her father Harold seizes the country’s crown in early 1066. But soon, treachery tears her house apart, and triumph turns to terror. An evil star appears, heralding the...

The Last Refuge

The Last Refuge
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): The Faroe Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

You can run from your past but you can never hide from yourself… When John Callum arrives on the wild and desolate Faroe Islands, he vows to sever all ties with his previous life. He desperately wants to make...

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