When the coach says Jason is thinking more about baseball-card collecting than about ball playing, he cuts him from the team. Jason will have to play on the Little League's new expansion team-the reject team-which doesn't even have a coach.
from the back cover: Terlalu Banyak Omnitrix! Ben 10 menghadapi tantangan berat ketika alien yang sangat mirip dengannya datang ke Bumi. Dan alien itu juga punya Omnitrix! Parahnya lagi, alien itu memerintahkan Ben untuk menyerahkan Omnitrix-nya! Bisakah Ben mengalahkan musuh barunya yang kuat ini? Nasib dunia tergantung pada kemampuan Ben menyeimbangkan segalanya!
Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally—and fatally—dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in to…
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a w…
Dalam cerpen itu, Intan bertutur tentang perkumpulan istri yang kehilangan suaminya dengan berbagai alasan. Lewat cara yang penuh kejutan, dia menyajikan kegetiran yang pelik sekaligus licin.
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an in…
Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown in Upstate New York, The Lake of Dreams, and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family's p…