"It's the greatest book about a dog-headed cop ever written!" -George's Great-Grandma "Doggone funny!" -Harold's Grandpa "I hated every page!" -mr. krupp George and Harold have created a new breed of justice. With the head of a dog and the body of a human, this heroic hound digs into deception, claws after crooks, rolls over robbers, and scampers after squirrels. Will he be able to resist the call of the wild to answer the call of duty? ...

These are the stories about two people that meet and fall in love with each other. It might be cliche but it’s sexy, it’s hot and naughty, some even taboo and oh-so-wrong... but it’s all your everyday fantasy.   Mari berkenalan dengan Elise – sang penari telanjang yang bersumpah akan melakukan apa saja demi mengamankan masa depan adiknya. Takdir kemudian membawanya bertemu dengan sang pemilik klub yang seksi dan jantan, pria yang akan mengubah jalan hidup sang ...

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." English Classics: Pride and Prejudice. English Classics is literature's collection with particular rooms for increase reader's interest in reading classics. This book including Pride and Prejudice as one of the collections. Pride and Prejudice is an romantic and heartwarming literature about Elizabeth Bennet with her five sisters who drowned inside matchmaker and trying to find each of their own love. One day she ...

"A story of human confusion in the midst of a fast-changing digital era, when humans don’t have much chance to stop, look back, and contemplate. Moving from one crowd to another, from connecting to alienating, we ¬ock to the future and leave the past behind. Technology has transformed human civilisation. Social network is the new world, where tremendous amount of time is spent running away from the harsh reality of life lled with defeat and absurdity. The novel portrays a young ...

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, ...

Description Children who go to international schools often feel disconnected and unaware of their heritage. They speak, read, and write in languages other than their native tongue and sometimes lack appreciation of their home country. It happened to Andari Deswandhy, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been educated by foreign school systems since early childhood. As a result, she felt that she had to change this reality somehow. Andari began to learn about her Indonesian heritage by reading ...

Dalam kumpulan 17 cerita pendek berikut ini kita mendapatkan berbagai gaya menyajikan cerita; namun banyak yang masih terkesan diilhami oleh sentimentalisme yang diangkat dari peri kehidupan serba kesempitan, serba pasrah, serba kalah, serba menerima. Sepertinya ada kecenderungan kuat untuk memanggil munculnya suasana perasaan serba mineur: kepiluan, keharuan, keprihatinan, ketidakber-dayaan. Boleh jadi hal ini memang.merupakan pantulan dari kenyataan yang diamati oleh para pengarangnya. Tidak ...

"“What a pleasure to see Laksmi Pamuntjak’s poems and prose texts in one generous volume that bears witness to her versatility and dexterity in both those genres, long before her name became internationally known for her splendid fi rst novel. Her multivocal stories intertwine with the lush, layered textures of art and music, and her elliptical, deft poems observe with a clear eye the cityscapes of our own restless lives, whether in Jakarta or London, New York or Berlin.” —Aamer ...

It was a rainy day, with a hot darjeeling tea, warm striped blanket and polka dot socks. One perfect moment to read stories for cats. ...

Welcome to Underground, the most prominent music television station in the United States, where young, talented entertainers and VJs live their normal lives, that is if you can call living under the limelight for ten hours a day, flying on Marquis Jet to cover AmsterJam and Live 8, and pose for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine ‘normal’. Under the spotlight, everything seems perfect. Liv has just been listed as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Stefan, the ...

Welcome to Underground, the most prominent music television station in the United States, where young, talented entertainers and VJs live their normal lives, that is if you can call living under the limelight for ten hours a day, flying on Marquis Jet to cover AmsterJam and Live 8, and pose for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine ‘normal’. Under the spotlight, everything seems perfect. Liv has just been listed as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Stefan, the ...

Rani is a 16-year-old teenage girl who was born and grew up in Bandung. She started to experience strange things after her parents’ divorce, started when she got lost on a hill without a peak, then she received a visit from an uncle and cousin she had never known existed. She was introduced to Javanese culture and finally found a portal that leads to another world! Not stopping there, Rani and her cousin, Bima, dared to enter the portal and discovered that the things hidden through the ...

ONE GLOOMY morning, Nadira Suwandi fi nds her mother has committed suicide. The death of Nadira’s mother Kemala Yunus, an expressive, free-thinking woman who always struggled to fi nd her own self, comes as a shock. Kemala’s death infl uences Nadira’s life as a girl (“Sky Painting”), a journalist (“Prayer Beads), a lover (“Longest Kiss”) and a wife, and brings Nadira into an exploration of a new world, an untouched world of sexuality (“Kirana”). In the last two ...

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. ...

A young Indonesian woman with an ailing mother and a celebrity father whose moon is on the wane. A painful family secret dragged into the open, a subversive Western lecturer, and nowhere else to turn. A steady drift into dangerous waters, a choice between black and white when everything seems grey. ‘A simple and perceptive drama, Annisa shines a light on social matters close to the hearts of many Indonesians.’ Muzakkir Husain, Berita Satu ...

In the fast-paced world where conscience is often swallowed by the daily struggles to survive, one little family maintains their true principle that honesty is the best policy. Though stricken with poverty, Cemara's family continues to live with gratefulness, kindness, and resilience. Cemara, the main character of this heartwarming novel, is a bright and lovely little girl who's still in kindergarten. She lives with Abah, the breadwinner of the family, who works as a pedicab driver and ...

This short story collection contains 13 short stories by Ahmad Tohari which were written between 1976 and 1986. Like his previous works, in this collection Tohari stays true to his path and presents the village life as well as the daily struggles of the poor and innocent people. As what has been described in the “Foreword”, Tohari’s strength lies in the village setting which is rich with intricate details about the local plants and animals. Apart from that, Tohari’s style is clear, ...

This book is an anthology of Ahmad Tohari’s fifteen short-stories that had appeared in countless newspapers between 1983 and 1997. Like his novels, his short-stories always have distinct characteristics. He always portrays the lives of the poor people or the low working class, with all their pain and struggles. Ahmad Tohari knew their lives well. As a result, he was able to weave the stories with a touching sympathy and empathy that can enrich the readers’ mind. ...

The Question of Red tells the story of two lovers, Amba and Bhisma, driven apart by one of the bloodiest Communist purges in the 20th century the massacres that took place in Indonesia between 1965 and 1968 in which some 1 million people were killed. From rural Java and Yogyakarta to the prison camps of Buru Island, where some 12,000 alleged Communists were incarcerated without trial during the Suharto administration, the lives of the central characters interpret the Mahabharata that timeless ...

She has been accused of heresy since she was born. She has been considered deviant and must be excommunicated. On behalf of faith and love, her marriage is sacrificed. On behalf of God, she and her family were expelled, and their home was destroyed. It has been seven years now that Maryam and hundreds of others live in a refugee camp at a small and cramped government-owned building in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. The story of Maryam is a sad tragedy within a country full of beauty. What they ...