Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" …
'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds him…
R-I-A-N. Empat huruf, satu raga. Lima cerita, satu jiwa... Perempuan punya cara masing-masing dalam bercerita tentang cinta. Manis, getir, harap, juga bencana. Mana yang benar-benar Rian cinta?
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a m…
Buku kesekian Tere-Liye yang saya baca. Seperti biasa, tema yang diangkat sederhana dan tersebar dimana-mana. Ceritanya pun sangat mudah dicerna. Tapi diksinya, subhanallah, membuat saya merenung dalam.. Kali ini ceritanya tentang cinta. Ya, CINTA. Tema klasik yang akan selalu ramai diusung mungkin hingga akhir zaman kelak. Tania, sang tokoh utama, menceritakan kisah cintanya sendiri. Cinta …
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK FIVE In the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way east--with new allies who may t be the ra…
Following his last thrilling adventure Sherlock Holmes has been sent to live in Oxford to focus on his education. But something strange is happening in the university pathology labs. Body parts are being stolen from corpses and are being posted one by one to an address in Wales. What can these sinister goings-on mean, and what message is someone trying to send? In an attempt to find out, Sherlo…
Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with h…