Masa hidup Hans Joseph Weel bisa dibilang tidak menyenangkan. Dia tidak pernah dekat dengan kedua orangtua atau saudara selayaknya anak-anak lain. Hanya Rosemary Boyld—seorang wanita tua yang menganggap Hans seperti cucu sendiri—berada di sisinya sampai ke teror mengerikan itu…."… aku hanyalah anak kecil yang sedang menunggu Mama untuk menjemputku pulang. Jika boleh meminta, tolong jang…
Suatu ketika Nenek Osano berkata pada cucunya, Tokunaga “Ada dua jalan buat orang miskin. Miskin muram dan miskin ceria. Kita ini miskin yang ceria. Selain itu karena bukan baru-baru ini saja menjadi miskin, kita tidak perlu cemas. Tetaplah percaya diri.” Cukup lama bagi Tokunaga untuk bisa menyesuaikan diri dengan neneknya, meredam tuntutan-tuntutannya, hingga mensyukuri keadaan dan bahag…
Pada tahun 1945, Barbie yang berumur tujuh tahun dan kakaknya Eva terjebak, ketakutan, dalam kancah Perang Dunia II yang melanda Jerman. Dengan kepergian ayah mereka ke medan perang dan ratusan mil berada jauh dari sang bunda, kabar tentara penyerbu yang sedang mendekat membuat mereka menghadapi pilihan sulit. Eva gadis berumur sembilan belas tahun, memutuskan untuk mencari sang bunda. Perjala…
The sixth book in L.J. Smith’s beloved bestselling Night World series is now available as a special collector’s edition! Hannah Snow’s life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect…until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of the danger that was coming. Dead Before Seventeen. The psy…
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the…
A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life will help you understand why you are alive and reveal Gods amazing plan for you both here and now, and for eternity. Rick Warren will guide you through a personal forty-day spiritual journey that will transform your answer to life's most important question: What on earth am I here for? Knowing Gods purpose for creating you will reduce your…
Named one of Time magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year, Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun . Now Shah takes us deeper into the real Casablanca to uncover mysteries hidden for centuries from Western eyes. In this entertaining jewel of a book, Tahir Shah sets off across Morocco on a bo…
Global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, the secret to eternal life. Mostly in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore. Clay Jannon tells how serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has sent him from Web Drone to night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay realize…
Boys want them. Girls want to be them. Someone wants them dead. Peregrine Marceau and Chloe St. Pierre are the Dolls. Impossibly beautiful and dangerously powerful, they hold the town of Carrefour under their spell. Yet newcomer Eveny Cheval is not so easily swayed by their glamour - until she discovers she is a Doll too. And when a killer sneaks past the locked gates of Carrefour, only the …
A PERFECT FAMILY Mick and Amy Nash are an ordinary couple leading ordinary lives. And then, into the house next door move the Renders - beautiful, charming, perfect ...and not at all what they pretend to be. AN EVIL SECRET Too late Mick learns that something is deeply, darkly wrong with the neighbours. Who are these people? Where did they come from? And what are they hiding in the basement? A S…