The Stars at Noon

The Stars at NoonBy: Denis Johnson A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Now the basis for a major motion picture Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine, as she

She sees how the country's pride in its past coexists with profound doubts about its place in the modern world

some kind of weird magical unicorn land

With just weeks to train to become a warrior

The merciless Otto Von Stürm will do anything to reach his prize--deception

Children can lift the flaps and peep through the holes to see a dinosaur egg hatching or trace the outlines of T

wrenching thriller about personal conviction

bracketed by the void--yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life

run by his own mysterious grandfather

By: Stephen Krensky | Illustrator:  Charlotte Ager | Series: DK Life Stories Discover the inner world of the girl who hid from the Nazis in WWII — Anne Frank

and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight

preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm

If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does