Third-grader Aven Green is an expert soccer player. She even has her own top secret moves! But when her friend Sujata joins the team, Aven has a hard time learning to help the new player shine. When the time comes to choose a new team captain, will Aven learn to share the spotlight and understand what it means to be a team player?
Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a noble life--but what if everything she's been told is a lie? Fern’s lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate New York, since she was six. The work is hard, but Fern admires the Ranch's leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern’s mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says Dr. Ben is dangerous, Fern doesn't beli…
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a regular family. Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful being a friend who's outgrown her. Luckily, she has neighbors with strong shoulders to support he…
A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins…
Dari sebuah lontar kuno, Raras Prayagung mengetahui bahwa Puspa Karsa yang dikenalnya sebagai dongeng, ternyata tanaman sungguhan yang tersembunyi di tempat rahasia. Obsesi Raras memburu Puspa Karsa, bunga sakti yang konon mampu mengendalikan kehendak dan cuma bisa diidentifikasi melalui aroma, mempertemukannya dengan Jati Wesi. Jati memiliki penciuman luar biasa. Di TPA Bantar Gebang, tempat…
My friend is missing. Before he disappeared, he was working on a magazine about the paranormal―his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki region. I have collected the relevant articles, interviews, and o…
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
Gertie the littlest yak and her family are moving mountains to pastures new. Ans for gertie that means squeezing all her belongings onto her sledge. But when someone special gets left behind, will Gertie come to see that home is about so much more than the things that you pack? A gorgeous and heart-melting story about what REALLY makes a home.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll p…