Bayangkanlah! Jika dunia tanpa bisa menyalakan lampu, televisi, > Komputer; dan juga kulkas. Hmm, memikirkannya saja sudah ngeri, `kan? Jika kita tidak bisa menggunakan barang elektronik dan melewati hari demi hari begitu saja tentunya kita jadi tahu bagaimana pentingnya listrik bagi kehidupan kita ini. Meskipun begitu hal ini tidak menjadikan diri kita tahu berterima kasih. Terkadang kit…
Raihan akhir-akhir ini susah sekali bangun pagi. Beberapa kali malah terlewat sholat subuh. Kata kak Rumi mungkin setan Ruha sudah berhasil mengikat Raihan sehingga Raihan malas bangun pagi. Ih ngeri banget deh! Apakah benar Raihan kalah dengan setan Ruha?
Liburan telah usai. Betapa senangnya kembali ke St Clare! Bertemu teman-teman lama, berkenalan dengan teman-teman baru, mengadakan pesta tengah malam, iseng mengganggu guru... dan tentu saja tak ketinggalan kerja keras untuk mendapat nilai yang tinggi. Semua itu memang mereka alami. Dan lebih lagi! Karena anak-anak baru lebih meramaikan suasana. Terutama Margery, yang ternyata sama sek…
Pengakuan: Eks Parasit Lajang (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 2013) adalah autobiografi seksualitas dan spiritualitas Ayu Utami. Seperti Cerita Cinta Enrico, kisah nyata ini ditulis dalam bentuk novel, dengan tokoh A, seorang perempuan yang memutuskan untuk melepas keperawanannya di usia dua puluh tahun, untuk sekaligus menghapus konsep keperawanan yang baginya tidak adil. Selama tahun-tahun ber…
This is the story of Charles, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he d…
With her mom working crazy hours at a dilapidated motel and her sister on welfare, fourteen-year-old Keisha is determined to attend Avery University for a precollege premed program but is instead sent to a summer program for at-risk kids where she discovers a passion for swimming, in a novel that details the many challenges one must face to succeed.
This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has sudde…
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in …
The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other. Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path. In the end, we discover that the extraor…
You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. So where will they be on this day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?…