Tanah Air Cerpen Pilihan Kompas 2016

Tema besar pertama adalah temtamg kekejaman rezim dalam pergolakan politik. Tema kedua tentang relasi sosial yang tak setara. Akibat relasi seperi itu bisa terjadi ketimpangan sosial dan kemiskinan dalam ruang-ruang ekonomi, tetapi juga melahirkan upaya-upaya bertahan hidup dengan beragam cara. Tema ketiga tentang relasi personal yang rumit melahirkan konflik-konflik tak terduga. Dan Tema terak…

Aku Ini Binatang Jalang; Kumpulan Puisi

Aku ini binatang jalang adalah kumpulan puisi terlengkap karya penyair terbesar Indonesia Chairil Anwar. Selama ini puisi-puisinya tersebar dalam beberapa buku seperti Deru Campur Debu, Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus. Sebagian lagi ada dalam Tiga Menguak Takdir dan Chairil Anwar Pelopor Angkatan 45. Selain keseluruhan sajak asli dalam koleksi ini juga dimuat untuk pertama kaliny…

Canting

For the batik-makers, canting, the copper pens to paint batik, are their spirits. At its most glorious moment canting is blown with deep and powerful feelings that are blended with the owner’s breath. But nowadays, hand-painted batik that is made by using a canting is crushed and cornered with the emerging of the new print batik. Hand-painted batik takes months and months to make, but this ne…

Nuclear Family : A Tragicomic Novel in Letters

"From an up-and-coming screenwriter and New Yorker contributor, a hilarious novel in letters by members of an unconventional family, running the gamut from sardonic to heartfelt. From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents, over the course of three decades. Told entirely in letters to a heroine …

Ready Player One

"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his gri…

What is a Novel?

Why are novels so popular? What makes a novel different from other types of writing? How can you find the right novel for you? Delve into literature and discover exactly what a novel is. What makes a great novel? How are characters important? What is a setting? Using great examples from past and present, this book explains clearly what is meant by a novel, before prompting you to write your own!

Amazing Decisions : The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Fam…

Amazing Decisions follows the narrator, Adam, as he faces the daily barrage of choices and deliberations. He juggles two overlapping--and often contradictory--sets of norms: social norms and market norms. These norms inform our thinking in ways we often don't notice, just as Adam is shadowed by the "market fairy" and the "social fairy," each compelling him to act in certain ways. Good decision-…

The Rainbow Troops (Laskar Pelangi)

An autobiographical novel. On Indonesia's Belitong Island--impoverished and tyrannized by tin-mining interests--a wily group of schoolchildren fight for their right to education.

Di Tanah Lada ; Pemenang II Sayembara Menulis Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2014

Namanya Salva, panggilannya Ava. Namun papanya memanggil dia Saliva atau ludah karena menganggapnya tidak berguna. Ava sekeluarga pindah ke rusun nero setelah Kakek Kia meninggal. Kakek Kia, ayahnya papa, pernah memberi ava kamus sebagai hadiah ulang tahun yang ketiga. Sejak itu Ava menjadi anak yang pintar berbahasa Indonesia. Sayangnya, kebanyakan orang dewasa lebih menganggap penting anak ya…

The Call of the Wild & White Fang

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by…

Sherlock Sam and the comic book caper in New York

The Supper Club are attending the San Diego Comic-con when a piece of experimental technology is stolen by a real-life superhero turned real-life supervillain! Will Sherlock Sam, Watson and the rest of the gang be able to rush across the country to rescue the priceless technology from the clutches of this evil-doer? Or is this the end of the world as we know it?

Death of a Perm Sec

In 1980s Singapore, a top civil servant is found dead. It appears to be suicide, by a cocktail of morphine, alcohol and Valium. But upon investigation by a CID inspector, who might not be what he seems, the family discover there may be far more sinister circumstances behind his death, reaching the uppermost echelons of government. Death of a Perm Sec exposes the dark heart of power politics, fr…

Winter Blue, fairy child : the Gems of Power

Winter Blue is a fairy-child. She leads parallel lives in two worlds – the world of humans, and another, secret, wondrous world – Magic-Land. As an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl she attends school every day, does her homework, and spends time with her friends, none of whom know her secret. Each night, she turns into a fairy and flies to Magic-Land where she meets other fairies, dwarf…

20.000 Leagues Under The Sea

Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine nautilus commanded by brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo explores both the limitless possibilities of science and twist…

The Graveyard Book

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, expect that he has been raised by ghost and other denizens of the graveyard.

Still Alice : a novel

A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful a…

The Joy Luck Club

In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crise…

A Wrinkle in Time

In 1962, Madeleine L’Engle debuted her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which would go on to win the 1963 Newbery Medal. Bridging science and fantasy, darkness and light, fear and friendship, the story became a classic of children’s literature and is beloved around the world. Now Disney is taking it to the silver screen! With an all-star cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Ka…

Perfume River

This novel examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Profound and poignant, it is an examination of relationships, personal choice and how war resonates down the generations. Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the…

Smoke and Mirrors ; Short Fictions and Illusions

In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and w…

School Dictionary

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9789810137489

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11 x 18 cm. + 592 pages

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R 423 CHA s

Oxford Learner's Pocket Dictionary

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9780194398725

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24 cm. + 1539 p.

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Filosofi Kopi: Kumpulan Cerita & Prosa Satu Dekade

Seharusnya ada pepatah bijak yang berbunyi, ‘Bila engkau ingin satu, maka jangan ambil dua. Karena satu menggenapkan, tapi dua melenyapkan’. Sekalipun ganjil terdengar, tetapi itu penting. Pepatah bukan sekadar kembang gula susastra. Dibutuhkan pengalaman pahit untuk memformulasikannya. Dibutuhkan orang yang setengah mati berakit-rakit ke hulu agar tahu nikmatnya berenang santai ke tepian.…

Longman Active Study Dictionary

This dictionary is now with thesaurus and full color. The book is the most comprehensive dictionary at this level with 45,000 words and phrases, including new words and phrases. Also have 30& more examples- that's thousands of extra examples.

Anak Ini Mau Mengencingi Jakarta? : Cerpen Pilihan Kompas 2015

Buku cerpen pilihan kompas 2015 sangat istimewa. Ia merangkum karya-karya para cerpenis empat generasi yang menulis dalam waktu bersamaan.

The Handmaid's Tale

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued onl…

Mongoose, RIP

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0440202310

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24cm., 368p.

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Thunder Head

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070993007508

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17 cm.: 533 p.

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The Joy Luck Club

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9780804106306

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17 cm.: 332 p.

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Mount Dragon

Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionary genius Brent Scopes, their secret goal is a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Sco…