"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hyst…
Ini adalah kisahnya. Tentang seorang pemilik kekuatan “membaca alam sekitar”. Tentang seorang ibu yang sangat menyayangi anaknya. Rasa sakit. Kehilangan. Pengorbanan. Kebencian. Memaafkan. Tumpah menjadi satu. Juga pertarungan mematikan, tempat-tempat berbahaya, hewan dan tumbuhan legendaris. Kalian mungkin telah tahu kisah ini dari buku-buku sebelumnya, bukan? Tapi itu tidak lengkap. Be…
from the back cover: Algernon knows that his friend Jack does not always tell the truth. For example, in town his name is Ernest, while in the country he calls himself Jack. And who is the girl who gives him presents 'from little Cecily, with all her love'? But when the beautiful Gwendolen Fairfax says that she can only love a man whose name is Ernest, Jack decides to change his name, and b…
Emily can't remember the last time she left the house. Or spoke to anyone besides her grandmother, beloved children's author Catriona Robinson. After Catriona's death, Emily is at a complete loss . . . until she gets an unexpected letter from the woman she loved most.
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazor changes the lives of his sons irrevocably.
Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is…