Saat perasaan tidak puas menetap, itu berarti perasaan itu ditempatkan oleh Tuhan karena satu alasan saja: kau perlu mengubah segalanya dan maju. (p.27) “Keraguan mendorong orang maju.” –J. (p.17) Saat Paulo mencapai sebuah titik keraguan dan ketidakpuasan dalam hidupnya, J., sang Guru, menasihatinya untuk melakukan perjalanan, mencari jawaban, untuk kembali menjadi ‘raja di keraj…
Sophie dan Agatha sudah berhasil pulang ke Gavaldon. Namun ternyata, kehidupan setelah pulang tidak seindah yang mereka harapkan. Awalnya mereka memang dielu-elukan layaknya pahlawan, tetapi kemudian mereka kembali menjalani kehidupan yang membosankan. Agatha diam-diam berharap seandainya dia memilih untuk bersama pangerannya, alih-alih kembali pulang bersama Sophie. Tak disangka, permohonan ra…
Katniss Everdeen selamat dari Hunger Games, dua kali. Tapi Katniss belum sepenuhnya aman dari ancaman Capitol meskipun sekarang ia dalam lindungan Distrik 13. Pemberontakan makin merajalela di distrik-distrik untuk menjatuhkan Capitol. Kini tak ada seorang pun yang dicintai Katniss aman karena Presiden Snow ingin menumpas revolusi dengan menghancurkan Mockingjay... bagaimanapun caranya. “Buku…
The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How t…
The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. 'No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild, ' said H.L. Mencken. 'Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction.' Wh…
In 1939, the Germans invaded the town of Lodz, Poland, and moved the Jewish population into a small part of the city called a ghetto. As the war progressed, 270,000 people were forced to settle in the ghetto under impossible conditions. At the end of the war, there were about 800 survivors. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. This is the story of one of the twelve.
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school. As the world appears to self-destruct around…
In The Kingmaker's Daughter, number-one New York Times best-selling author Philippa Gregory presents the riveting story of Anne Neville, her sister Isabel, and their ever-changing fortunes. The Kingmaker's Daughter is the gripping and ultimately tragic story of the daughters of the man known as the "Kingmaker", the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the absence of…
Enter a world of mysticism, machinations, and murder in which the mighty and noble do whatever is necessary to protect their supremacy, where rebellion grows in the darkest streets and alleys, and where those with the power to kill have the power to change the world...
etrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio vows to exact his revenge and restore his family's honor by using the skills he has learned from such great minds as Da Vinci and Macchiavelli to become a righteous assassin.