Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might al…
Peter Rabbit is off to visit his friend Squirrel Nutkin! On his way, he comes across many familiar friends and asks all sorts of questions about their homes . . . Will Peter find out he and his friends are more similar than he thought? Join Peter Rabbit on this adventure story in this brilliant new board book format with flaps to lift and holes to peep through.
Di tengah kota kecil yang dipenuhi aturan moral ketat, seorang wanita muda berdiri di mimbar hukuman. Di dadanya, tersemat huruf "A" merah menyala — bukan sekadar simbol dosa, tapi lambang keberanian menghadapi penghakiman dunia Hester Prynne tidak tunduk pada rasa malu. Ia tetap tegar, memeluk anak hasil cinta terlarang, dan memilih diam demi melindungi pria yang dicintainya.
Taking the form of a chronological diary from 1600 to the present, this book leads the reader through the centuries, year by year, following the musicians' overlapping and interweaving lives. The composers' own worlds, public and private, spring to life in extracts from contemporary letters and journals, and in hundreds of illustrations, many in full color. An informative introduction traces…
Both the experienced detective, Mr Lestrade, and consulting expert, Mr Sherlock Holmes, have concluded that this horrible series of events is the work of a MADMAN, not a common criminal. No other explanation makes sense. Someone is smashing statues of Napoleon and the police have no idea why. Luckily, Holmes and Watson are on hand to help. Little do they know that these few small crimes will…
Tarian Bumi menjadi fenomena sekaligus kontroversi. Novel ini dengan sangat terbuka menghantam keadaan yang melingkupi kehidupan perempuan di kalangan bangsawan Bali yang masih sangat feodal. Dalam konteks adat-istiadat Bali, Tarian Bumi dipandang sebagai sebuah pemberontakan kepada adat. -Tempo, 9 Mei 2004 Rather than contesting established stereotypes, another recent text creates its own m…