Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better ...

Five Nights At Freddys Graphic Novel #3: The Fourth Closet ...

Have you ever felt like you're floating in space? Have you ever felt like your body suddenly loses its weight and your mind wanders around to place where infinity seems possible? Have you ever been in love? ...

Gugug! Get Lost Postcard Book ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly developing seaside resort, Sanditon follows the spirited Charlotte Heywood as she encounters a colorful cast of characters whose ambitions, vanities, and desires reveal the absurdities of fashionable society. When Charlotte arrives in Sanditon, she finds a community eager to transform a quiet coastal village into a fashionable destination for health, pleasure, and profit. Through sharp observation and subtle wit, Jane Austen explores the tensions between ...

His name is Ali, he’s sixteen years old, he’s in Class 11. If only his parents would let him, he ought to have been doing his senior year of a doctoral programme in physics at one of the best universities. Ali doesn’t like his school or his teachers or his classmates. He finds it all boring. But since he found out that there’s something odd about two of his classmates, me and Seli, his boring life has become fun. I can disappear and Seli can produce lightning. Ali himself has a small ...

Zach thought he had a pretty ordinary life. That was until his hidden power was suddenly awakened one day when he was playing a video game with his sister and cousins. Apparently, their parents weren't ordinary human beings. They were in fact the kings and queens from another dimension called the Hero World. Now that their powers were awakened, Zach, his sister, and their three cousins were taken into the Hero World to have their new abilities honed. Before their skills were perfected, they ...

They Say I'm a Monkey is a collection of short-stories from the young Indonesian writer Djenar Maesa Ayu. In the eleven stories, Djenar turns footnotes of urban Jakarta life, and the inner lives of the city's inhabitants, into stories that keep in their narratives both the magic and the realism of the place. Stories that will crawl out from the margins into the centre of your conscience. When They Say I'm a Monkey first appeared in Bahasa Indonesia in 2002, it shocked readers with its ...

Having memories is an undeniable part of being human. Memories, good or bad, stick in our heads, whether we want them to be or not, and memories sometimes come in many forms. In “Waking Up for the First Time”, Lala Bohang creates a series of fictional stories that resemble collages, which when viewed up close seem random and irregular, but when viewed from a distance, implied meanings. Lala experimented with writing styles which in hindsight seemed didactic, but also surreal. Just ...