Turning Page adalah buku yang berisi gambar-gambar manis dan tulisan kecil Dean Bjorn tentang kekasihnya, Alea Khiar. Sebenarnya, Dean tak pernah ingin menggambar manusia di buku sketsanya. Menurutnya, menggambar adalah untuk mengabadikan sesuatu. Dan manusia tidak pernah abadi. Untuk apa digambar, jika mereka bisa berubah sewaktu-waktu? Tetapi, Alea adalah pengecualian. Memang, gadis itu sama …
Maktub berisi kumpulan cerita dan perumpamaan yang mengungkap misteri misteri kehidupan. Maktub berarti “Telah tertulis”, dan pembaca diajak mengikuti perjalanan iman, refleksi diri, dan transformasi. Maktub bukanlah buku yang berisi nasihat, melainkan sebuah pertukaran pengalaman, jalan terang untuk melihat kehidupan sesama kita di seluruh dunia dengan cara yang baru dan meninggalkan pesan…
Kesatria Cahaya kadang-kadang berperilaku seperti air, mengalir memutari penghalang penghalang yang dijumpainya. Aliran air sungai menyesuaikan dirinya dengan alur apa pun yang tampak mungkin, tetapi sang sungai tak pernah melupakan tujuannya, yakni laut. Meski sangat rapuh dari sumber mata airnya, perlahan tapi pasti dia mengumpulkan kekuatan demi kekuatan dari sungai-sungai lain yang dijumpai…
Sebuah surat di Ferndell Hall yang ditujukan kepada Enola tampaknya akan menjawab teka-teki besar yang selama ini mengikuti Enola dalam setiap petualangannya. Dengan ornamen gipsi menakutkan, Enola yakin surat tersebut datang dari sang ibu. Namun, Dr. Ragostin juga masih memiliki kasus yang perlu diselesaikan. Duque Luis del Campo telah kehilangan istrinya yang berharga, Duquessa Blenchefleu…
“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children condemned parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this b…
THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their prof…
The search for diamonds, a crucial scientific breakthrough and a mythical ruined city set off this adventure into the heart of the Congolese jungle. The American expedition is led by Karen Ross, desperate to find her husband and recover the data he found before he disappeared. But there are other teams trying to get there first, and the way is strewn with life-threatening dangers -- plane cr…
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services – as a burglar – on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo’s life is never to be the same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved …
CLB02648Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a grav…
Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother... but her attempts at granting wishes n…