Chronicle Of A Last Summer

Chronicle Of A Last SummerA young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and

Their missions are dangerous

the broken end of a sword blade jutting out from the center of the man's chest

Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations

When the money dries up their marriage founders

paper chains and 361 more

The second novel in the epic new young adult series that Michael Grant is calling his best yet

Meet Whale and her friends in this adorable rhyming storybook that is full of squishy squashy fun

cream sauces and vegetable sauces to fish and shellfish sauces and meat and poultry sauces

t want to sink his or her teeth into such a variety of characters

Even cats believe in suppertime

and scathing manifestos

through her early days on the stage at Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama during its golden years