Awalnya cerita dalam buku ini memang ceria, yaitu saa anak-anak Baudelaire melewatkan waktu bersama ular-ular yang menarik dan paman yang menyayangi mereka. Tapi jangan mudah percaya. Kalau kalian mengenal sedikit saja tentang anak-anak Baudelaire, kalian pasti tahu bahkan hari-hari yang menyenangkan pun akan membawa mereka ke jalan yang penuh penderitaan. Dalam buku ini, anak-anak Baudelaire h…
Tak diragukan lagi kalian telah keliru mengambil buku ini, jadi tolong letakkan kembali. Tak ada orang waras yang bersedia dan sengaja membaca buku yang satu ini, yang mengisahkan kehidupan Violet, Klaus, dan Sunny Baudelarire, karena seluruh saat mengerikan yang mereka lalui ketika tinggal di desa P.K.S. telah direkam dalam halaman-halaman buku ini dengan penuh ketelitian dan kengerian. Aku…
uku dimulai saat Sunny, Klaus dan Violet Baudelaire pergi bersama Pak Poe dengan kereta api menuju Kota Datar, lokasi tempat tinggal sementara mereka yang baru, yaitu di Pabrik Kayu Pasti Mujur. Dalam perjalanan menuju pabrik itu, tanpa sengaja mereka melihat rumah berbentuk mata, tanda kehadiran Count Olaf. Mereka mendapat surat yang berisi bahwa sesuai dengan perjanjian dengan Pak Poe, Ana…
Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters. If I Stay is a heartac…
The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief--and a page-turner that will touch your soul--Albom's ma…
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than ju…
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n this second novel of the fantastic series of Emily the Strange, we are dealing with an even stranger situation than in the first one, as you could probably tell from the title of the book. The chain of strange events begins when Emily is trying to make her invention - the Duplicator - work and she accidentally duplicates herself, and thus OtherMe is born. At first, the two girls are good f…
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the slap. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century. The Slap …
After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emot…