Dead-End Memories

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9780571382347

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221 p., : 20 cm.

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IB F YOS d

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital – helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can't. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left. Unless you count Khawf. But he's a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she's seen. Every day he urges S…

Animal Farm

'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong – and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by pu…

The Silent Patient

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9781250762481

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356 p. : 18 cm.

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IB F MIC s

Of Mice and Men

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn’t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets int…

The Rotter's Club

Coming of age in 1970s' Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to discover the agonies and ecstasies of growing up. Whether it is first love or last rites, IRA bombs or industrial strife, prog versus punk rock, expectations of bad poetry or an unexpected life-changing experience involving lost swimming trunks, The Rotters' Club is a heartfelt and hilarious portrait of a particular time …

The Pearl

The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is …

Babel

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire

Katabasis

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to t…

Maus I : a survival's tale ; my father bleeds history

Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon, succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. It is, …

All the Lovers in the Night

FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A BEST BOOK OF 2022 Oprah Daily ・ TIME Magazine ・ Washington Post ・ Publishers Weekly ・ All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it. �…

The Road

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that…

The Three-Body Problem

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to figh…

Understanding Comics : the invisible art

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Kite Runner

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event, that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan und…

Hamlet

This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Hamlet, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay by Paul Prescott discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Av…

The Secret History

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever. Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic…

Flowers for Algernon

A mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

The journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for…

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut novel about the spontaneous decisions that shape our entire lives and those imperfect relationships born of unexpectedly perfect evenings.

Investigators : off the hook

InvestiGators Mango and Brash don their fanciest vests for the next mystery in the adventure series from John Patrick Green Sewer-loving secret agents Mango and Brash fight for the GATOR good in this zany adventure that will have readers HOOKED! The InvestiGators are the best crime-fighting duo in the world. But not even their hi-tech training programs can prepare them for the return of t…

The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 6 : the Calculus affair

Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, as they embark on extraordinary adventures spanning historical and political events, fantasy and science-fiction adventures and thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day com…

5-Minute Marvel Stories

A collection of 12 stories featuring Marvel super heroes that can each be read aloud in 5 minutes! Heroes. Legends. Protectors! This padded storybook collection features 12 stories: Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel join forces to defeat a dangerous foe, Kate Bishop proves there's room for two Hawkeyes, Jane Foster wields Thor's hammer, and more!

Agents of S.U.I.T. : wild ghost chase

InvestiGators fans, rejoice! Get ready to dive into the third volume of Agents of S.U.I.T., featuring the weird and wacky coworkers of everyone's favorite sewer-sleuthing super-agents, Mango and Brash! With more than two million copies of InvestiGators in print, readers are primed for more GatorVerse action!The first two volumes of AGENTS OF S.U.I.T., the long-awaited spinoff of John Green’s …

Agents of S.U.I.T. ; from badger to worse

Now it’s time for the B-Team to show why they’re so un-B-lievably B-loved. That’s right, Bongo and Marsha, the super-spy Badgers, are on the case…and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy vehicles and custom plush toys, they’re sent to Bora Bora to investigate a case…the old-fashioned way. The bees—that’s “b…

Weird and Wicked Series: Tifa Tua

Dum! Dum! Dum! Saat hujan, Ardha dan Adi iseng menabuh tifa tua yang mereka temukan di gudang rumah Ardha. Mendadak tangan dan kaki Ardha bergerak sendiri, menari-nari mengikuti tabuhan tifa. Adi pun tak bisa mengendalikan tabuhannya. Tiba-tiba kabut putih menyelimuti dan kedua anak itu mendapati diri mereka berada di antara belukar hutan Papua tahun 1800-an. Mereka mengikuti sebuah tim ekspedi…

DOG MAN TWENTY THOUSAND FLEAS UNDER THE SEA

ALL ABOARD THE FRIEND SHIP!

DOG MAN THE SCARLET SHEDDER

CAN DOG MAN STOP THE ROBOT REVOLT?

Mencari Kopi Flores : a graphic travelogue

Komik ini menceritakan tentang perjalanan seorang traveller yang melintasi sebagian pulau Flores demi menikmati kopinya secara langsung bersama para petani. Perjalanan ini baginya merupakan praktek ekspresi seni yang menunjukkan cinta dan gairah pada kebudayaan dan mengajak pembaca untuk memandang Indonesia dari Timur.

Si Juki Anak Kosan Vol. 4

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ISBN/ISSN

9786238728084

Collation

134 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

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IND 741.5 JUK