from the back cover: In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real humming…
This book is about the girl called Mary Lennox from India, and her father works in India. Also, there is a boy called Robin who wants to get the key and open the secret garden. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden which has been locked for the last ten years.
Sihir Perempuan adalah kumpulan dongeng tentang perempuan-perempuan yang tak patuh. Perempuan bisa menjadi apa saja: ibu, anak, pekerja teladan, hingga boneka porselen. Namun dalam buku yang menghadirkan 11 cerita pendek ini, peran-peran yang seharusnya nyaman diteror oleh lanskap kelam penuh hantu gentayangan, vampir, dan pembunuh. Di sinilah perempuan dan pengalamannya yang beriak dan berdara…
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from the back cover: The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Al…
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and, above all, a criminal mastermind. but even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of LEPrecon unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. And that's just the beginning of Artemis's twisty, action-packed, and hilarious adventures with a cast of…
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…