Beppu, manusia bersayap yang cacat.Sayapnya yang hanya sebelah tidak dapat mengangkatnya terbang meniti angin. Louissa Manna, seorang ibu berusia ratusan tahun. Dia telah memakan jantung manusia bersayap untuk mendapatkan hidup abadi. Pada pertemuan mereka yang dipenuhi oleh kekejaman, Beppu dan Manna berjuang mempertahankan kewarasan, kesucian, dan di atas semuanya, cinta. Sepuluh cerit…
Samantha Madison merasa dirinya biasa banget. Coba saja bandingkan dirinya dengan kakaknya, Lucy, yang pemandu sorak; atau dengan adiknya yang belajar di sekolah khusus anak cerdas. Samantha cuma pintar menggambar, dan kalau itu memang satu-satunya kebisaannya, kenapa tidak digunakan sekalian? Sayangnya, Samantha menggunakan waktunya belajar untuk menerima order lukisan teman-temannya bersandin…
Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks . In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short …
Bak tereliminasi dari kontes nyanyi di TV, saya melangkah gontai meninggalkan pelataran bandara. Dengan terkantuk-kantuk, saya seret kaki ini sambil menggerutu sebal. Niat hati pengin berhemat biaya penginapan, eh malah apes begini, diusir keluar tengah malam buta! Saya terus berjalan sambil celingak-celinguk mencari spot yang memungkinkan untuk tidur. Tapi, setelah berjalan sejauh lebih…
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen…
Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summer…
In The Sum of Our Days, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirit…
Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God. Like all beloved historians, Armstrong entertains us with deft storytelling, astounding research, and makes us feel a greater appreciation for the present because we better understand our past. Be warned: A History of God is not a tidy linear history. R…
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five Points, with its rival Irish and American gangs. Cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research, this is a powerful account of New York City's tumultuos past. …