Callum Hunt has been both a hero and an outcast. Now starting his final year at the Magisterium, Call is desperate to find his place at the school, win his friends back, and prove he is a force for good. But he soon comes face to face with an old enemy, transformed into a being of terrible evil. It must be stopped, and the Magisterium needs Callum's help. It is a mission that could save him,…
Didedikasikan untuk ibu kami yang kelelahan. Ibu mencintaimu, tapi seorang ibu juga perlu dicintai. Aku dan adik perempuanku bertengkar setiap hari. Kami tidak pernah makan dengan benar dan sering melempar bantal ke arah ibu… Akhirnya, ibu menjadi singa yang bisa mengeluarkan api! Lebih seram lagi, sang ibu singa langsung masuk ke dalam hutan. Ibu bilang, ia adalah singa yang bebas sekaran…
Nabila kecil ingin menjadi perempuan hebat seperti Ibu Linda GUmelar. Saat bergabung dengan OSIS SMP Nabila berhadapan dengan siswa-siswi bermasalah. Tugas OSIS membuat Nabila dijauhi teman-temannya. Padahal nabila ingin membantu mereka. Hingga akhirnya Nabila menemukan sebuah metode CDEF untuk membantu siswa-siswi bermasalah. Namun guru dan pihak sekolah menentang.
As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat and the population lives under the constant threat of arrest and enslavement. After the murder of her beloved uncle and the capture of her brother by the Germans, Edda is determined to do anything she…
Richard selalu berkata, ""Tunggu sebentar, Bu!"" Dia anak yang sangat sibuk. Dia berusaha melawan kuman di mulutnya, ia berusaha memakai pakaian dan kaos kakinya dengan benar, ia bahkan mendengarkan bisikan dari makanan-makanan di kulkas." Anak-anak terkadang fokus dengan dunianya sendiri. Sulit bagi mereka untuk melakukan apa yang ibunya perintahkan dengan segera. Namun mereka tidak dengan …
When Mikey's dad died, something in Mikey died too. He loved his old man and he never stopped dreaming that one day his dad would land the role of a lifetime, prove them all wrong, and rock back up to the estate in the flashiest car anyone had ever seen. Now there's just numbness, and not caring, and really, really stupid decisions. He says the worst of it is that he can't even remember his dad…
The orphanage in London is cold and hard and horrible, so when the priest promises the Barker brothers a better life in Australia, they jump at the chance. But it's not better, it's hard work, separation and no one caring whether or not they live or die. Then the war breaks out and the brothers are finally united, in an environment even worse than anything they've known before. A stunning…
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in thi…