Lord of the Flies: A novel

Novel about a group of English boys completely cut off from society who revert to brutal, primitive savagery.

Never Let Me Go

In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkle skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her…

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in. “Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says. “I am the Lord,” the man whispers. So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling novel yet.

Dead-End Memories

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9780571382347

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221 p., : 20 cm.

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The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

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 Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished.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…

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…

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.

Mengapa Aku Harus Membaca?

Di sini, di tempatku, orang tua sangat suka jika anak-anak mereka membaca. Orang tua akan membelikan anak-anak mereka buku apa saja. Tidak peduli anak-anak mereka suka atau tidak. orang tua ingin anak-anak punya banyak buku. Anak0anak disuruh membaca. Anak-anak kadang seperti dipaksa banyak membaca.

Good Nigth Gorilla

Good night, Gorilla . . . Good night, Elephant . . . It’s bedtime at the zoo, and all the animals are going to sleep. Or are they? Who’s that short, furry guy with the keys in his hand and the playful grin?

Ayo Bersepeda, Lilo!

Lilo dan Mama hendak ke festival kuliner. Namun, mobil Mama mogok. Nala, tetangga Lilo, mengajaknya untuk pergi dengan sepeda. Rupanya, Lilo menemukan begitu banyak hal menarik dengan bersepeda. Apa saja, ya?

DAG DIG DUG

Erin ingin mencoba Siger Pepadun milik Kak Reni. Gawat, puncak mahkota siger menghilang. Bagaimana bisa? Dag, dig, dug, apa yang Erin harus lakukan?

Di Manakah Keluarga Rimba?

Di tengah hutan, Rimba si harimau kecil mengaum sendirian. Monyet, gajah, dan rusa bermain bersama keluarga mereka. Rimba pun bertekad mencari keluarganya. Ia menelusuri hutan, sungai, dan bukti. Akankah usaha Rimba berhasil?

Menangkap Pencuri Lumpia

DEB! Mati Listrik! Lumpia bom Emi holang dari piringnya. Dicarinya pencuri lumpia ke seluruh penjuru rumah! mampukah Emo menemukan siapa pencurinya?

Nasi Ulam Rumah Ceria

Nyak dapat pesanan nasi ulam. Dul menawarkan diri mangantarkannya. ternyata nasi ulamnya banyak sekali. Siapa yang memesan nasi ulam sebanyak ini?

Racikan Ajaib Kedai Seruas Bambu

Waktu seperti sirop dari Pak Dokter! Glek. Glek. Glek. Ternyata rasanya tak pahit sama sekali. Tenggorolan Budi terasa lega. Wah. minuman ajaib apakah ini?