For One More Day adalah kisah tentang seorang ibu dan anak laki-lakinya, kasih sayang abadi seorang ibu, dan pertanyaan berikut ini: Apa yang akan kaulakukan seandainya kau diberi satu hari lagi bersama orang yang kausayangi, yang telah tiada? Ketika masih kecil, Charley Benetto diminta untuk memilih oleh ayahnya, hendak menjadi “anak mama atau anak papa, tapi tidak bisa dua-duanya.” Mak…
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insig…
Synopsis: Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who's parents have been killed in a 'car crash'. He is bullied by them and his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him m…
Betapa Sabari menyayangi Zorro. Ingin dia memeluknya sepanjang waktu. Dia terpesona melihat makhluk kecil yang sangat indah dan seluruh kebaikan yang terpancar darinya. Diciuminya anak itu dari kepala sampai ke jari-jemari kakinya yang mungil. Kalau malam Sabari susah susah tidur lantaran membayangkan bermacam rencana yang akan dia lalui dengan anaknya jika besar nanti. Dia ingin mengajaknya me…
Ia termasuk lima besar di kelasnya di Harvard Law School. Tawaran pekerjaan mengalir dariro hukbiro hukum terbaik di Amerika. Tapi pilihannya justru membawa bencana. Ketika memutuskan bekerja pada biro hukum Bendini, Lambert dan Locke di Memphis, Mitch McDeere mengira jalan menuju kesuksesan telah terbuka bagi dirinya dan istrinya yang cantik, Abby. Biro itu membelikan BMW baginya, membayar …
Pada 1970, salah satu koran mingguan Mississippi, The Ford County Times, bangkrut. Banyak orang terkejut dan cemas, karena kepemilikan koran itu diambil alih oleh Willie Traynor, mahasiswa dropout berumur 23 tahun. Masa depan koran itu kelihatannya suram, hingga ada ibu muda diperkosa dan dibunuh secara keji oleh anggota keluarga Padgitt yang terkenal. Si tersangka, Danny Padgitt, diadili di…
Ray Atlee adalah profesor hukum di University of Virginia. Ia berusia 43 tahun, baru bercerai, dan masih belum bisa menerima perceraiannya. Adiknya Forrest, yang memiliki masalah ketergantungan obat dan alkohol, bisa dibilang merupakan kambing hitam keluarga. Ayah mereka yang sudah tua dan sakit-sakitan tinggal sendirian di rumah tua di Clanton, Mississippi. Pria itu dikenal sebagai Hakim At…
Elizabeth costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creationthe subject of jm coetzee’s latest work of fiction is an australian writer of international renown -- fêted, studied and honoured famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be …
PAULO COELHO'S enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemis…
A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.