In the peaceful village of King's Abbot, a shocking murder shatters the quiet life of the wealthy Roger Ackroyd.
Novel Ragam Ni Si Marian yang ditulis Kartini Sjahrir, berdasarkan riset di Belanda dan Indonesia, adalah sebuah kisah fiksi yang dijalin dengan fakta-fakta sosial politik, ekonomi, dan konflik inter-rasial di masa kolonial dari tahun 1900 sampai dengan pasca kemerdekaan tahun 1956. Dalam novel ini, Kartini mengeksplorasi berbagai tema penting seperti hak-hak sipil, peran wanita, serta penga…
The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life i…
Like many couples, Michael and Jolene have to face the pressures of everyday life - children, career, bills, household chores - even as their twelve year marriage is falling apart.
Alaska, 1974 Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide…
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in L…