“A piercing first novel . . . lyrical and portentous.”―The New York Times “Mr. Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller's most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary.” ―The New York Times Book Review “Arresting . . . uncannily evokes the wry voice of adolescence and a mixture of curiosity, lust, tenderness, morbidity, cynicism, and the na…
The haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides, now a major film, is Jeffrey Eugenides' classic debut novel. The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memor…
SC Cilandak ( Abu-abu /Bridging Early ) Mudshark is cool. He's fast thinking and fast moving, and he's the go to guy with the answers. Lost your shoe? Your dad's car? Can't find your homework? The Mudshark Detective Agency is on the case. At least, it is until Psychic Parrot takes up residence in the school library.The word in school is that the parrot can out-think Mudshark. And right now, …
SC Cilandak ( Pink / Connecting ) Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Allein in der Wildnis (Hatchet), this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
SC Cilandak ( Ungu / Proficient ) Fourteen year old David was only trying to fulfill his uncle's last wish when he set sail on the Frog. He wasn't ready for the way the world seems to dissapear out on the ocean, and he certainly wasn't expecting the savage storm that nearly took his life. David quickly learns that surviving on the sea is different from anything he knows on land. The waves ca…
The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The Nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illumina…