Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is expanded edition of the beloved regency romance--with thrilling all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible E…
From the very first beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain... I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Kitty Logan has lost her way ... As a journalist. she's spent the past few years chasing the big scoops -. no matter the consequences When she makes a terrible mistake. she finds herself mired in scandal. her career implodes and even her personal relationships are tested to the limit.At a loss. Kitty finds distraction in a list of one hundred names that her late mentor and boss. Constance. has …
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji. Shah offers Masterji and his neighbors--the residents of Vishram Society's Towe…
the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense …
Lose yourself in the magical new novel from the No.1 bestselling author of PS I Love You Joyce Conway remembers things she should not She knows about tiny here cobbled streets in Paris. which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair. Justin Hitchcock is divorced. lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets a…
The true story of a young Cuban doctor imprisoned by Castro as a resistance leader. His wife must choose between staying in Cuba to help her husband survive prison and taking their three young children to freedom in Miami. The book intertwines the story of his iron will in enduring Castro's brutality with his wife's struggles in a deteriorating Havana where she is treated as the wife of a trait…
The Old Man at The Foot of the Mountain, which won second prize in the Sabah Foundation II - Gapena Novel Awards (1981), explores the issue of the generation gap. Through the character of Tukya, the author attempts to presents an insight into the older generation's tendency to stubbornly uphold tradition as evident from Tukya's bond with the natural environment surrounding the foot of Bongsu…
One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way. Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, Aaliya i…
Dyah Pitaloka Citraresmi tersudut karena tidak mampu mengelak dari pinangan yang diajukan Raja Hayam Wuruk. Dyah Pitaloka mau menerima pinangan Prabu Hayam Wuruk dengan catatan bahawa dirinyalah nanti yang akan diangkat menjadi raja menggantikan ayahandanya. Syarat itu ternyata dipenuhi. Namun, Dyah Pitaloka yang telah terlanjur jatuh cinta kepada Saniscara mendapati sosok itu ternyata hanya…