Buku ini segera dicekal pemerintah Orba ketika pertama kali terbit pada 1987. Orba tidak suka dengan cara Susan Blackburn (dulunya Susan Abeyasekere) mengkaji Jakarta. Susan dengan menelusuri sejarah Jakarta selama berabad-abad berhasil memaparkan suatu kontras. Ternyata sejak lama Jakarta hanya kota yang dibangun untuk memenuhi impian para penguasa, kaum aristokrasi uang. Jakarta bukan milik d…
Will Lucky solve life’s mysteries before she turns twelve? The adventures that began with the Newbery Award–winner The Higher Power of Lucky come to a grand finale. For eleven-year old Lucky, the universe is full of questions. Is that mysterious woman at the café Miles’s mom? Does her father not talk to her because he hates her? Will the Health Department ruin everything? Is she reall…
A mother addresses the issues of grieving in a poignant and personal journey toward healing.
from the back cover: Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the ho…
from the back cover: The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are hidden. Carmady agrees to talk to the guy who says he knows. But he finds him dead in his bed, wit…