Sastra Bandingan

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9789791976626

Collation

134p; bw; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

800 DAM S

Voices in Time: a New Windmill Book of Literary Non-Fiction

This engaging collection of literary non-fiction for Key Stage 3 students includes: * A wide variety of texts from different genres and times such as letters, biography, autobiography, journal, reportage, diaries and speeches. * Material covering famous and fascinating people such as Nelson Mandela, Leonardo DiCaprio and David Beckham. * Texts written by authors suggested in the National Cu…

The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Custo…

When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed. The New Gol…

Lisa, Bright and Dark

A young girl's journey toward the strange hypnotic world of madness, and about a group of her friends who unite to get her help-filmed as a Hallmark Hall of Fame Production. "Compassionate and tragic, an indictment of adults who refuse to get involved."-"The New York Times" "A surprise and a delight, despite its sobering theme."-"Austin American Statesman" ." skillfully constructed and more exc…

A Painted House

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beau…

Who Was Jackie Robinson?

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780448455570

Collation

106p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Who Was …

Call Number

920 HER

Christmas in Prague

from the back cover: In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still re…

Goodbye, Mr Hollywood

from the back cover: Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short w…

Into Thin Air

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon but journalist/mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's…

Stardust

Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Ben enters the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business, where politics and the dream factories collide and Communist witch hunts are renderin…