Lucy, Hermione, dan Sam belayar mengarungi samudra dengan kapal besar. Petualangan yang menyenangkan sekaligus membahayakan. Karena mereka harus mencegah pencurian berkarung-karung popcorn oleh para bajak laut kejam--yang tidak segan-segan melemparkan orang ke laut sebagai umpan ikan hiu. Petualangan yang mendebarkan pun dimulai saat para bajak laut yang menyeramkan merapatkan kapal yang mereka…
John dan Nicky belum pernah makan spageti. Bahkan seiris kue cokelat atau semangkuk es krim hanyalah impian. Mereka tinggal bersama Bibi Rebecca yang selalu menyajikan makanan sehat yang rasanya hambar. Hingga suatu hari, mereka memasuki restoran yang harum masakannya tercium hingga ke jalan. Mereka menyantap spageti yang kelezatannya tidak terlupakan. Pengalaman itu membuat mereka mengikuti s…
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire…
Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once th…
The phenomenal acclaim for Alexander McCall Smith's Botswana-set detective series featuring the 'comfortably built' Precious Ramotswe took the publishing world by storm, notably because the gentle, unforced humour of the books was such a contrast with the far grittier fare on offer from most publishers and crime authors. Of course, it's probably true that readers were ready for something a touc…