In the 1890s, Conor and his family live on the soverign Saltee Island, off the Irish coast. He spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and theown in…
The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father. Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memorable characters from.
Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, A Woman of Bangkok was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature s long line of b…
I stopped reading at page 6. For someone who claim to have special interest in the Islamic world, he got the basic Facts of Islam wrong. I'm just gonna highlight 2 here. Firstly, at page 2: implying violence with Islam. To know Islam, read the Quran, simple as that. Don't judge based on media reports or even the Muslims, as not all are potraying the true teachings. If I want to learn about…
When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…
After his family was betrayed by the ruthless nobles of Renaissance Italy, young Ezio vowed to restore the honor of the da Firenze name at any cost. Learning the arts of the Assassins, he fought with both his mind and body, ultimately confronting and defeating a secret evil. Or so he thought... For the power of the dreaded Templars has not been broken. The sinister enemies of the Brotherhood…
Buku ini menjadi semangat baru untuk para muslim. Hasil analisis saya Kang Abik tentunya melakukan riset yang lama bahkan mengelilingi Turki. Karena karya terbaru beliau mampu mengajak ke luar negeri di negara yang menjadi saksi peradaban Islam walaupun raga yang masih duduk setia membuka lembaran demi lembaran Api Tauhid. Kang Abik berhasil membuatnya terasa nyata dan tanpa ada rasa jenuh dala…
PARTAI DEMOKRAT KEBOBOLAN! Diawali dengan peristiwa pencurian yang tampak biasa saja di markas Partai Demokrat di Washington dan kemudian dilanjutkan dengan berita-berita menggegerkan yang terus terang dan tajam di halaman muka koran terbesar di Amerika Serikat, The Washington Post, penyelidikan dua wartawan muda, Carl Bernstein dan Bob Woodward, berhasil menyingkap skandal Watergate yang m…
Pesawat B29 menjadi momok mengerikan bagi rakyat Jepang selama Perang Dunia II. Pesawat yang sama kemudian membawa bom atom yang meluluh-lantakkan Hiroshima dan mengubah sejarah untuk selamanya. Inilah kisah kesaksian enam warga penyintas dari tragedi yang mengakhiri perang dunia kedua, saat dijatuhkannya bom atom di Hiroshima, Jepang. Buku dari pemenang Pulitzer-Prize, John Hersey, ini merupak…
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…