Gara-gara kecelakaan yang menimpanya, Petra Morgan harus melahirkan bayinya lebih cepat dari jadwal semula. Bayi itu pun terlahir prematur. Namun masalah belum selesai, karena ancaman kerusakan otak membuat seluruh darah di tubuh si bayi harus diganti. Satu-satunya orang yang bisa menolong adalah Dominic Tate, dokter senior UGD Rumah Sakit Princess Mary, sang ayah. Padahal Dominic merupakan pria terakhir yang ingin Petra kabari mengenai masalah itu. Ketika mengetahui dirinya memiliki anak, ...

THE EIGHTH STORY. NINETEEN YEARS LATER. It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: Sometimes, ...

Darius was perfectly comfortable living in his world of occasional inanities. He was the unsullied king of ease and complacency. Nothing could have ruffled his existence until one fateful night when things unaccountably turned complicated. Without rhyme of reason, the women he so dearly loved left him and the one good friend he could always count on for consolation drew him into a web of bizarre events that threatened to turn his world in a tailspin.Set in Jakarta, Heart of the Night explores ...

march 20 i don't know anything about love but once i know you i know for sure this is the closest thing to it. when was the last time you pour your heart out into a diary? raw words flow as you scribble to release all the emotions within. that's what her thoughts is all about after this, you might wanna write your thoughts down too. ...

The months following the fall of Soeharto in May 1998 comprise one of the most tumultuous periods of modern Indonesia history. Many Indonesians refer to those months as the jaman edan, a poetic term for a chaotic time when evil is rewarded and good punished. The jaman edan, while a time of horror and suffering, had its share of absurdity and farce.Jakarta Jive is a chronicle of the jaman edan through the eyes of those who lived through it. At times humorous, at other times harrowing, Jakarta ...

On November 12, 1991, the Indonesian military opened fire on East Timorese protestors in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Hundreds of people were killed and accounts of this massacre sparked international outrage. In Jakarta a cover-up began immediately: the Soeharto government declared the killings an “accident” provoked by armed provocateurs. The Indonesian mass media was cautioned to tow the official line. Seno Gumira Ajidarma, editor of Jakarta Jakarta at the time, refused to do so and was ...

Ada suatu keasyikan saat kita seorang diri menyusuri kota yang baru pertama kali didatangi. Bukan hanya kita jadi bebas melakukan apa saja, tapi juga interaksi dengan orang lain dan obrolan yang terjadi saat kita sendirian. Cobalah. Bisa juga dengan makan di luar rumah sendirian. Kita tidak perlu jaim; kalau memang mau, silakan saja makan pakai tangan dan jilat jemari jika sudah selesai dan makanannya memang seenak itu. Lalu ke bioskop. Tertawa atau menangislah sebebasnya, tidak usah pikirkan ...

One Boy, One Boat, One Tiger After a tragic shipwreck, a solitary lifeboat is left at the mercy of the wld blue waters of the Pacific. The only survivors are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a zebra with a broken leg, a hyena, an orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Now a major motion picture from acclaimed director Ang Lee, the much loved Life of Pi is a bewitching tale of adventure and friendship - and of finding courage in the most unexpected places. "Every page offers ...

Chappy Hakim believes that every dream will come true as long as you hold on to it with all your heart. From the moment he first saw an airplane, Chappy stayed true to one goal, no matter how many challenges stood in his way. He grew up to become living proof that determination can shape destiny. His story reminds every child that staying focused and never giving up can carry you farther than you ever imagined. Keunggulan: * Buku ini merupakan picture book naratif nonfiksi biografi tentang ...

Little Grey is different from other girls. Her hair is as grey as the ashes, and her only friend is Zooey, the grey cat. Everyone calls her ‘Little Grey’. Until one day, she meets new friends who calls her as ‘Anna’, her real name. All of them have grey hair. All of them love tea, milk and sunsets. All of them are now best friends. Would you like to know the story? ...

A dead star—that’s what I am. Just like a star that ran out of fuel—destined to wane in the dying universe. A star that shrank so greatly it couldn’t even turn to black hole. Like a solar system that lost its core; a hollow space populated with planets no longer bound by celestial gravity. I was left adrift in the boundless ocean of negativity. And on the edge of the observable universe, there I stood by the entrance to my heart. There was the door you once opened. It is now closed. ...

Focusing on short stories with the theme of sexual violence towards women. It also features reproductions of social protest posters and a photographic essay on the 1999 election campaign. ...

This volume includes 10 short stories and 17 poems by Indonesian exile authors. It also includes 2 short stories by a “domestic” exile writer and 2 biographical stories of former political prisoners. Taken together, the materials present part of the Indonesian exile experience, a segment of Indonesia’s social history that has been ignored for far too long. ...

Nayla claims to never want love. All she wants to do, she claims, is to get drunk. Yet i suspect, what she really wants, what she truly needs, is to be drunk in love. -Ben But how can we tell what's in their minds? Not everyone is naive like her. If she be-have in such a sexually inviting manner, who can blame the men for hitting on Nayla? -Juli Her name is Nayla. My fellow counselors dislike her. They perceive her as arrogant because she comes from a rich and famous ...

Tentang Penulis : Agus Suwage adalah seorang perupa yang lahir pada 14 April 1959. Banyak ide-ide nya dituangkan dalam karya-karya yang besar. Bahkan ketika usianya tak lagi muda, Agus Suwage merayakan 50 tahun eksistensinya melalui pameran retrospektif yang menampilkan 99 karya sejak tahun 1985 hingga 2009. Mahfud Ikhwan lahir di Lamongan, 1980. Ia lulus dari Jurusan Sastra Indonesia Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta pada 2003. Novel pertamanya Ulid Tak Ingin ke Malaysia terbit pada ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

You are not my first love, and you are not my first loss. But you are a chapter from the book of my life that i have a bookmark on. ...

Melalui karya-karyanya, Afifah Rossy Wardhani selalu mengingatkan kita bahwa perubahan dalam hidup adalah sesuatu yang tidak bisa kita hindari. Seiring dengan hadirnya perubahan, hidup kita menjadi penuh ketidakpastian. Kita tidak dapat memprediksi semuanya dengan baik, dan tidak semuanya dapat diukur secara akurat. Menghadapi ketidakpastian bisa membuat kita mudah cemas. Mudah bagi kita untuk merasa gelisah dan marah. Apalagi jika sudah sering membuat berbagai rencana, namun banyak rencana ...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl--and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer. Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. Now it's just ...