The Flight of the Swans is a family saga set in British India and Malaya, which unfolds against the backdrop of war, famine, family conflict, social injustice, and sacrifice. Blending history and fiction, the novel tells a tragic tale of love, loyalty, and courage of three generations of the Bhonsle family who dream impossible dreams.
Elektra adalah manusia spesial yang bisa mengeluarkan aliran listrik dari tubuhnya. Memang sejak kecil Elektra mempunyai hobi aneh, dia suka melihat petir. Sepertinya hobi aneh ini memiliki korelasi dengan kemampuan aneh yang dimilikinya. Melalui bimbingan dari Ibu sati, Elektra bisa memanfaatkan kemampuan tersebut untuk membantu menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit. Kelebihan novel ini adalah …
Hujan turun sepanjang jalan hujan rinai waktu musim berdesik-desik pelan kembali bernama sunyi kita pandang : pohon-pohon di luar basah kembali tak ada yang menolaknya kita pun mengerti tiba-tiba atas pesan yang rahasia tatkala angin basah tak ada bermuat debu tatkala tak ada yang merasa diburu-buru Hujan turun sepanjang jalan Sapardi Djoko Damono
Masih ingatkah kau jalan pulang? Tak ada jalan dan tak ada pulang kita di atap langit nun di bawah rata belaka suatu saat biru di saat lain merah kesumbar Jadi kau tidak ingat lagi tak percaya lagi akan jalan pulang? Apakah pergi harus juga pulang? Apakah pergi harus juga berpikir untuk pulang? Apakah pulang hanya ada kalau kita pergi? Apakah pulang dan pergi harus b…
Terkadang kita merindukan yang tidak seharusnya dirindukan dan melupakan yang harus diingat
Menjelang Petang Dulu diteriaki pulang oleh ibu, kini dipanggil lembur oleh bosku. Dulu tubuh sudah ditaburi bedak, kini terjebak di kendaraan yang membludak. Dulu bersiap untuk pergi mengaji, kini sudah terbiasa saling mencaci. Dewasaku membuatku gamang, saat menjelang petang.
What are the dreams made of? Dreams are made of happy colors. Dreams are made of sprinkles of hope. Dreams are made of a box of crayons.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself…
1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading man and impresario; Ellen Terry is the most lauded and desired actress of her generation, outspoken and generous of heart; and ever following along be…
Buku ini perlu tenaga pendidik/kependidikan baca karena akan membantu Anda untuk menemukan rahasia kekuatan personal para pemimpin sukses yang akan segera mengantarkan diri hingga menjadi seorang pemimpin yang hebat dan paling dicari. Temukan tujuh katalis sukses yang akan segera mengubah diri Anda dari kepala sekolah rata-rata menjadi seorang kepala sekolah yang sangat efektif dan inspiratif.
An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, E…
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a …
Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. . . A deadl…
Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out... Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days…
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounte…
Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love.…
On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vamp…
Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously o…
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
Lisbeth Salander--the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo--has disappeared ... And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights. Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who lived and died on the streets of Stockholm--a man who does not exist in any official recor…
A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs, a "master still at the top of his strange and chilling form" (Wall Street Journal). Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Sc…
Pengetahuan adalah kekuatan. Will Dando bangun dari tidur dengan 108 prediksi tentang masa depan. Dengan menyebut sebagai Sang Peramal, ia membuat The Site, sebuah situs untuk mengumumkan ramalannya. Dalam waktu singkat, perusahaan global menawarkan jutaan demi mendapatkan keuntungan atas ramalannya. Namun, kekuatannya itu juga mendatangkan musuh tingkat tinggi, dari panglima perang hingga Pres…
Damara yakin bisa meluluhkan hati Milan. Ia percaya, cowok dingin itu pasti punya sisi lembut yang tersembunyi. Damara berusaha mendekati Milan dengan berbagai cara. Namun, dengan berbagai ungkapan juga ia ditolak mentah-mentah. Bagi Milan, semua cewek itu sama, melelahkan dan merepotkan. Kenapa ia harus dekat-dekat dengan cewek kalau hanya akan menyusahkan hidupnya? Ia nggak segan-segan menghi…
Nonversation, sebuah novel yang menerjemahkan kata 'kehilangan' dari perspektif seorang sahabat, pengagum, anak dan orang tua. Bercertia tentang mereka yang sederhana namun berarti segalanya, Tentang mereka yang punya kesempatan namun tak punya keberanian, dan tentang mereka yang dibutuhkan namun diam-diam juga membutuhkan.
Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees somethin…
Ten-year-old Singaporean Maya is lonely; her grandmother is dead, her mother is focused on her career and her best friend has become a bully. When Aunty M, a domestic worker from Indonesia, joins the family to take care of Maya and her baby sister, Maya is ready to hate her. Aunty M smiles a lot, but says little. However, after Aunty M and Maya rescue a fellow maid living in the same buildin…
Meski keajaiban medis mampu mengecilkan tumornya dan membuatnya Hazel bertahan hidup beberapa tahun lagi, Hazel Grace tetap putus asa. Hazel merasa tak ada gunanya lagi dia hidup di dunia. Namun ketika kelindan nasib mempertemukannya dengan Augustus Waters di Grup Pendukung Anak-anak Penderita Kanker, hidup Hazel berubah 180 derajat.
“Dia yang ada di dalam hatiku maka itu adalah keabadian. Meskipun dia pergi, kenangan tidak akan pernah benar-benar meninggalkan.”