Robert Newton Peck's novel of a Vermont farm boyhood has become a celebrated classic, captivating readers year after year with its quiet humor and poignant drama. It is the timeless story of one Shaker boy, his beloved pet pig, and the joys and hardships that mark his passage into manhood. A Day No Pigs Would Die is told in a unique and compelling voice, one with all the unadorned power of a Sh…
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…
When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…
Di tengah kesibukan Jones Salvage Yard, tiba-tiba terdengar jeritan melengking yang menyeramkan. Ternyata suara menakutkan tersebut berasal dari sebuah beker! Itulah awal dari penyelidikan terbaru Trio Detektif yang seru. Siapa yang membuat jam tersebut? Apa alasannya? Pengusutan awal membawa Trio Detektif pada ruangan penuh jam menjerit serta pesan-pesan membingungkan. Jupiter, Pete, dan Bob y…
Di alam semesta Walking Dead, tidak ada penjahat yang lebih hebat dari Gubernur. Lalim yang menjalankan kota bertembok Woodbury, dia memiliki rasa keadilannya sendiri yang sakit: apakah itu memaksa tahanan untuk melawan zombie di arena untuk hiburan penduduk kota, atau memotong pelengkap orang-orang yang melintasinya. Gubernur terpilih sebagai "Villain of the Year" oleh majalah Wizard pada tahu…
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected…