Between Shades of Gray

It's 1941 and fifteen-year-old artist Lina Vilkas is on Stalin's extermination list. Deported to a prison camp in Siberia, Lina fights for her life, fearless, risking everything to save her family. It's a long and harrowing journey and it is only their incredible strength, love, and hope that pull Lina and her family through each day. But will love be enough to keep them alive?

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was div…

Becoming

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. …

Wuthering Heights (Legend Classics)

Catherine Earnshaw had no idea that the boy her father took in from the streets of Liverpool would one day become her lover, her soul mate. Nor did she know that her decision to marry someone else would send him down the path of destruction. Once a novel criticised for its display of mental and physical cruelty, Wuthering Heights is now a considered a 19th century classic. It's themes of gen…

Writing the Short Film

The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the storytelling process- from conception, to visualization, to dramatization, to characterization and dialogue- and teaches them how to create a dramatic narrative …

Kesatria Sungai

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

550002314

Collation

30 hlm.: Ilus.; 28cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

899.2213 TYA k

Insurgent (Divergent #2)

ONE CHOICE A CHOICE Becomes a sacrifice A SACRIFICE Becomes a loss A LOSS Becomes a burden A BURDEN Becomes a battle ONE CHOICE CAN DESTROY YOU Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to unco…

Heidi

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…

Passchendaele 1917

The inside story of a battle that has come to epitomize the mud and blood of World War I—includes significant contributions from the Canadian and ANZAC forces The Battle of Passchendaele is perhaps one of the most iconic of World War I. Continuing for more than three months under some of the worst conditions of the war, fighting became bogged down in a quagmire that made it almost impossib…

Somme 1916

One of the bloodiest battles in military history—what happened and why The Battle of the Somme raged from July 1 to November 18, 1916, and was one of the bloodiest fought in military history. It has come to signify for many the waste and bloodshed of World War I as hundreds of thousands of men on all sides lost their lives fighting over small gains in land. Yet, this battle also marked a t…