Butternut lives in the burrows of Milkweed Meadow with her nine rabbit brothers and sisters. Together they practice strategies for survival and tell stories. With disastrous scenarios blooming in her mind, Butternut embraces the lesson of her families’ stories: stick to your own rabbit-kind. But after befriending an incorrigible robin and a wounded deer, Butternut begins to question what she …
“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.” A summer evening’s ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room, and a runaway imagination—fired by philosophical discus…
Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party —the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice , directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts t…
Manusia dengan segala dinamika kehidupannya dikisahkan melalui sudut pandang orang pertama—menjadikan suasana batin tokoh-tokohnya tergali dalam. Cerita-ceritanya tampak sederhana, tapi menyuguhkan sisi lain kehidupan nyata yang kompleks dan kelam. Dengan cara yang tidak biasa, Budi Darma mengungkap konflik antar manusia yang lazim kita hadapi dalam keseharian—prasangka, kesepian, kedengkia…
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play is by David Hare and was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berli…
Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley Jefferson's imagination. You'll meet the zombies, vampires, ghosts, and much more in these comically terrifying tales.
Nancy’s Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It’s spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has foll…
Suatu pagi, kulilitkan simpul tali di sekeliling leher kucing itu dan menggantungnya pada dahan sebuah pohon. Aku menggantungnya sambil berlinang air mata. Aku menggantungnya meski aku tahu ia mencintaiku. Aku menggantungnya meski aku tahu aku melakukan dosa mematikan yang akan menghancurkan jiwaku.
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