"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Dann…
It's Father's day! As Bluey and Bingo make cards for dad, will bluey learn that sometimes perfect doesn't have to be ... perfect?
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories n…
When a five year old girl Heidi brought to her grandfather by her Aunt Dete, the people in the village were sure the grumpy old man will turn them down. But Heidi's peculiar personality soften her grandfather's heart, and for a while Heidi lived happily on the mountain, befriended Peter the goatherd and his grandmother. Unfortunately, Aunt Dete returned and took Heidi to Frankfurt to became a c…
Sayangku Marwan, kupandang lekuk wajahmu di bawah sinar bulan yang nyaris penuh, Anakku, bulu matamu bagaikan kaligrafi, tertutup dalam tidur yang nyenyak. Dan kukatakan kepadamu, “Genggam erat tanganku. Tidak akan ada hal buruk yang terjadi.” Khaled Hosseini menulis buku ini sebagai keprihatinan atas krisis pengungsi yang saat ini terjadi di dunia. Dia tergugah oleh foto Alan Kurdi…