The Star Zoo

from the back cover: In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real humming…

Sihir Perempuan

Sihir Perempuan adalah kumpulan dongeng tentang perempuan-perempuan yang tak patuh. Perempuan bisa menjadi apa saja: ibu, anak, pekerja teladan, hingga boneka porselen. Namun dalam buku yang menghadirkan 11 cerita pendek ini, peran-peran yang seharusnya nyaman diteror oleh lanskap kelam penuh hantu gentayangan, vampir, dan pembunuh. Di sinilah perempuan dan pengalamannya yang beriak dan berdara…

A midsummer night's dream

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9780194786133

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822.33 COV a

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

from the back cover: The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Al…

Frankenstein

from the back cover: Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thin…

The Three Strangers and other stories

from the back cover: On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night . . . In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us …

Disney 365 bedtime stories : Kisah-kisah pengantar tidur

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9789792225068

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268 p. ; ill. ; 28 cm

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

from the back cover: You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked…

Factfiles : Disaster

from the back cover: From out of the sky, from under the earth, from far out at sea - disaster comes. We build and invent new things - and sometimes bring disaster on ourselves. Today television and the Internet mean that we can watch disasters as they happen, and see their terrible results. From Pompeii to the Asian Tsunami, from the Great Fire of London to Chernobyl, the stories of disast…

The Thirty-Nine Steps

from the back cover: 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerou…