Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny next book in the House at the Edge of Magic series.Nine and her friends have cured the house's hiccups and are off to the strange and utterly unpredictable Back of Beyond in search of Professor Dish - Spoon's best friend and partner in all things alchemy.When they find Dish trapped by the greedy witch Ophidia in the basement of a particularly marvellou…
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon c…
Peter Pan by Sir James Matthew Barrie. The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook exp…
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which t…
Emma by Jane Austen. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically twe…
The main gist of the fifteenth book by Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End, is that Greg Heffley and his family have been living in their grandmother's basement ever since some "financial issues" surfaced in the previous book. Ergo, there house was destroyed by a hot tub falling through their roof. Anyways, the conditions in which they are living in are not only uncomfortable for Gr…
Salvation of a Saint adalah sebuah novel mister karya Keigo Higashino. Buku ini diterjemahkan oleh Faira Ammadea ke dalam bahasa Indonesia, versi terjehannya kemudian diterbitkan pada 8 maret 2021 melalui penerbit GPU (Gramedia Pustaka Utama) Kasus yang diceritakan dalam buku setebal 354 halaman ini cukup rumit. Pembaca akan dibuat menebak-nebak pelaku utamanya, hingga bisa membuatmu tergocek b…
"Kau bukan Pukat si anak yang pintar..........kau lebih dari itu, kau Pukat si anak yang genius." Berkisah tentang keluarga Bapak Syahdan dan Mamak Nur dengan empat anaknya yang hebat: Eliana, Pukat, Burlian, dan Amelia. Kisah masing-masing anak diceritakan sendiri-sendiri oleh Tere Liye. Kali ini Pukat, sebagai anak kedua, sembilan tahun, si anak pintar yang paling dijagokan bisa menjawab semu…