Kisah petualangan remaja karangan Mark Twain dengan latar belakang alam bebas di tepi Sungai Mississippi ini merupakan salah satu karya klasik Amerika. Tom yang nakal tinggal di rumah Bibi Polly yang dermawan. Setelah bertengkar dengan sahabatnya, Becky Thatcher, Tom pergi bertualang bersama Huck Finn, temannya. Secara kebetulan keduanya menyaksikan penjahat menusuk seorang dokter hingga mening…
The Art of the Japanese Garden is the only historical overview of Japanese gardens that covers Japanese gardening culture in one beautiful book. Japanese gardens are rooted in two traditions: an indigenous prehistoric tradition in which patches of graveled forest or pebbled beach were dedicated to nature spirits, and a tradition from China and Korea that included elements such as ponds, stre…
“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.” A summer evening’s ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room, and a runaway imagination—fired by philosophical discus…
Setiap beberapa puluh tahun, muncul sebuah buku yang mengubah hidup para pembacanya selamanya. Novel Paulo Coelho yang memikat ini telah memberikan inspirasi bagi jutaan orang di seluruh dunia. Kisah yang sangat sederhana, namun menyimpan kebijaksanaan penuh makna, tentang anak gembala bernama Santiago yang berkelana dari rumahnya di Spanyol ke padang pasir Mesir untuk mencari harta karun terpe…
THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their prof…
The search for diamonds, a crucial scientific breakthrough and a mythical ruined city set off this adventure into the heart of the Congolese jungle. The American expedition is led by Karen Ross, desperate to find her husband and recover the data he found before he disappeared. But there are other teams trying to get there first, and the way is strewn with life-threatening dangers -- plane cr…
CLB02648Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a grav…
Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother... but her attempts at granting wishes n…