Marcus Tullius Cicero, salah satu pembicara terbaik segala zaman, sejak kecil terlatih dalam seluk-beluk retorika. Cicero unggul bukan hanya sebagai pembicara publik yang efektif, yang berhasil memenangkan sebagian besar argumen di mana ia terlibat, melainkan juga sebagai teoretikus seni persuasi lisan yang menghasilkan risalah-risalah bertema retorika. Buku ini menyajikan antologi pendek teks …
Novel grafis Hujan Bulan Juni karya Sapardi Djoko Damono berkisah tentang sepasang kekasih yang saling mencintai namun terhalang oleh perbedaan budaya dan keyakinan. Tantangan demi tantangan datang silih berganti. Di tengah usaha mengupayakan restu dari kedua keluarga, tangan takdir pun ikut campur untuk menguji cinta mereka.
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of that loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful m…
When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with g…
Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone, ' wh…
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to s…
After his deadly plunge over Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes seemed gone forever—but, as mysteriously as he left, he returns three years later. Now he is reunited with Watson, and a host of thrilling new adventures through London's underworld awaits, battling thieves, kidnappers, and killers alike. But Holmes is about to meet his most despised villain yet: the dastardly Charles Augustus Mi…
Steven Smith has just been released from prison, and he is finally free to investigate a mystery that has haunted him since childhood. Forty years ago, he found a copy of a famous children's book, full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced that it was the key to solving a puzzle. That a message in secret code ran throug…