Angela's Ashes

“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…

The Skin I'm In

Maleeka Madison is a child with very low self-esteem due to the fact that she is darker skinned than most other black girls. In her new teacher, Miss Saunders, she encounters someone who, she feels, is worse off than she is, as Miss Saunders' skin is blotched with a rare skin condition. The teacher withstands the snickers and shouts from the students but can Maleeka accept friendship and accept…

Misteri Hutan Batu

Jack, Lin Lin, dan Bobol. Ketiganya sering terlibat petualangan seru. Kali ini mereka berniat menyelidiki hutan batu yang bagi mereka bertiga menunjukkan keanehan. Di belakang sekolah terdapat hutan batu. Mengapa disebut “hutan batu”? Sebenarnya Jack, Lin Lin, dan Bobol bisa lebih cepat sampai sekolah melalui hutan itu karena jaraknya menjadi lebih dekat. Namun, Lin Lin selalu melarang Jack…

The Return of The Indian

A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."

The Great Gatsby

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780141182636

Collation

176p; bw; pbk

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Call Number

823 FIT T

Katarsis

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A Room of One's Own

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civiliza…

Les Miserables : Volume One

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Fiesta : The Sun Also Rises

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jeal…

A Farewell to Arms

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A…