The quest for justice continues in the third thrilling part of this quartet. Kimi and Hana have been reunited with their mother and youngest brother, Moriyasu, but the family are still in hiding. When their treacherous uncle's men attack the peasants who are sheltering them, Kimi retaliates. It is a fight that ends in fire, and both Kimi and Hana will be left with scars that will change them fo…
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. Elijah's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that - not to mention for being the best at chunking rocks and catching fish. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and tends to talk too much. But everything cha…
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritual…
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side through Chicago, Seattle, the Yukon, and Alaska, to Siberia to find the missing girl.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recen…
Buku “Muhammad Rasul Allah Sepanjang Zaman” adalah buku yang ditulis oleh Karen Armstrong. Karen Armstrong adalah penulis beberapa buku keagamaan terkenal, antara lain Sejarah Tuhan, Berperang demi Tuhan, Masa Depan Tuhan, dan Compassion. Karya-karyanya telah diterjemahkan ke dalam empat puluh bahasa di seluruh dunia. Dia juga merancang acara-acara televisi bertema keagamaan. Sejak 11 Septe…
Berbicara tentang Perang Dunia II pasti tidak jauh dari pembahasan soal Hitler dan Jerman, aliansi Sekutu dan Poros, dan juga bom atom yang dijatuhkan Amerika Serikat ke dua kota besar di Jepang. B Buku ini secara garis besar membicarakan sejarah umum yang terjadi selama Perang Dunia II di berbagai belahan dunia. Terkhususnya yang dalam kurun waktu enam tahun selama berlangsungnya Perang Dun…
Perang Dunia I (WW1) adalah kontes gladiator terbesar sepanjang sejarah umat manusia yang melibatkan para hegemon Eropa serta koloninya. Vladimir Lenin, sang tokoh komunis Rusia yang dijuluki “virus” oleh para hegemon Eropa menyebut perang ini sebagai “perangnya bangsawan” bukan ”perang rakyat”. Pemikirannya yang dilandasi sikap anti kaum ningrat dan prorakyat ini nantinya melahirka…
Semua hal mengenai Korea Selatan begitu digandrungi oleh masyarakat Indonesia belakangan ini. Berawal dari industri hiburan seperti K-Pop dan drama, kini kecintaan publik tak terbatas pada itu saja, melainkan juga merambah ke berbagai aspek lainnya, mulai dari budaya, bahasa, tak terkecuali kuliner. Aneka makanan Korea Selatan memang terlihat sangat menggiurkan. Keberadaannya pun kini sudah …