I CAN'T DO IT, CHRISTY THOUGHT. I JUST CAN'T. All week long she'd tried to convince herself that she, Christy Steele, Aunt Martha's properly brought-up niece. could do such a thing-confront a man she'd barely met with a personal and deeply intimate request. Now a warning flashed through her mind, tangible as a flare Don't go through with this harebrained scheme Cancel the appointment. Yet an…
Something is going badly wrong in Hong Kong. A CIA agent is dead; a Chinese fixer is dead. And Rear Admiral Jake Grafton, his Chinese-speaking wife Callie, and CIA agent Tommy Carmellini are sent to find out what is going on The dead fixer had close associations with Virgil "Tiger" Cole, the US Consul-General in Hong Kong, who had also been Grafton's bombardier-navigator during Vietnam. Before…
In this brilliant novel, one of the most successful and highly praised books of the last 25 years, John Fowles has evoked in perfect detail the Victorian world of repressed sexuality and cruel hypocrisy. In the central figures of Charles Smithson and the ostracised Sarah Woodruff he has created two figures who, seeking to escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, achieve an epic and tragic…
THEY WERE WATCHING... AND WAITING At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said-nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school. Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home. "It was a mis…
Buku ini mengajak kita semua berlayar pada arung pertualangan baru yang serba kontemporer, namun dengan nilai-nilai lama yang akrab dengan kita. Pahlawan, kebajikan dan kebenaran.
Hidup terlalu pendek untuk dihabiskan dengan kesedihan berkepanjangan. Aku belajar menerima diri bahwa aku memang bukan orang yang kau inginkan. Kelak, suatu hari nanti kau juga harus belajar menyadari. Bahwa kau sudah kulupakan dan bukan orang yang penting kemudian.
Setidaknya sejak 4000 tahun silam, Tuhan merupakan tema penting dalam sejarah kesadaran manusia, dalam upaya menemukan Tuhan yang benar-benar bermakna dan relevan bagi hidup mereka. Mengisahkan pergumulatan batin anak manusia tentang Tuhan, novel Atheis memberikan aspek-aspek menantang tentang tema in, yang cukup peka hampir sepanjang sejarah kesadaran manusia, termasuk di Indonesia
Love Catcher mengisahkan sepasang kekasih yang telah memutuskan untuk hidup bersama selamanya. Namun, pilihan lain datang kepada mereka. Meski awalnya terlihat biasa, pilihan lain itu mengubah segalanya. Kisah mereka tak lagi sama. Mampukah janji menghapus segala ragu? Ataukah mereka harus menyerah pada rasa yang sudah terlanjur berbeda?
Kalo denger kata gagal move on. Pasti identik sama yang namanya 'Mantan', pasti nggak bakal jauh sama kenangan masa lalu lo sama dia, apalagi pas lo lagi semangat-semangatnya pingin lupain mantan, tiba-tiba dia chat? 'hai'. Abis itu dia telepon 'Halo, Apa Kabar?' Masih yakin bisa move on? Buat gue, gagal move on itu hal yang wajar, sama kayak jomblo. Karena menurut gue, ketika lo gagal ngelupa…