Di planet Arrakis, kisah seorang pemuda bernama Paul Atreides bermula. Ayah Paul ditunjuk oleh Imperium sebagai punguasa di planet furun yang juga dikenal dengan nama Dune itu. Meski bukan merupakan tempat yang nyaman untuk tinggal, Arrakis punya rempah berharga yagn diperebutkan di seluruh jagat raya. Maka ketika Klan Atreides dikhianati, kehancuran keluarganya membuat Paul harus menempuh perj…
The best documentary account of an American crime ever written.....The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence.... harrowing" - The New York Review of Books. A remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written 'true account' - The New York Times. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Chutter family were savagely murdered by bla…
As soon as Geppetto finishes carving him, the wooden puppet named Pinocchio starts misbehaving - playing tricks, running away, telling lies, and generally causing an uproar wherever he goes. In spite of his behaviour, Pinocchio yearns to be a real boy, but first he must prove himseld to be good and kind. Come aling on his many wild escapades as the mischievous puppet learns for himself what it …
Passion drew him into a new world and trickery has kept him there. But as he finds path in a dangerous life, he will learn his notions of home, and oh his people might not be quite as he believed. Beautifully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, this is a stunning and original modaern fairytale of love. loss and revenge, against a powerful back drop of a adventure on the high seas, and frama…
When Mary Lennox comes to live with her uncle and her sickly cousin in their big house on the Yorkshire Moors, she is lonely and ill-tempered-until a robin shows her the key to a secret garden long forgotten. Now, with the help of some new friends, Mary transforms the secret garden into a place of peace and beauty, finding her own happiness and the love of her adopted family aling the way. rnrn…
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-it was the black kitten's fault enterely.rn For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hourrn ( and bearing it pretty well, considering) so you see that it couldn't have had any had in the mischief.
Art and arson,the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems, and taboos - out of narrative elements like these National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates, oneof the most adroit voices in contemporary American fiction, contrives a startling, suspenseful tale that turns a sunny idyll of New England college campus life into a lurid nightmare. A …
Percy is confused. When he awoke after his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain-fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight. Somehow Percy managed to make it to the camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he had to continually kill monsters that, annoyingly, would not stay dead. But the camp doesn't ring any bells wi…