Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When the Nazis occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. With them…
Akses memerlukan izin dan pendampingan. Silakan hubungi pustakawan ___ Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep. They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other. Only if you looked closely - and people did - could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the bo…
Akses terbatas - hanya untuk guru, tendik, dan orang tua ___ EVERY DAY THE SAME. UNTIL TODAY. Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Their life as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that …
Akses ini memerlukan izin dan pendampingan. Silakan hubungi pustakawan. ___ For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot wat…
THE MOMENT SHE TURNS FIFTEEN, SPETH MUST PAY FOR EVERY WORD SHE SPEAKS. She's been raised to know the consequences of falling into debt, and can't begin to imagine the pain of having her eyes shocked for speaking words that she's unable to afford. But when Speth's friend Beecher commits suicide rather than work off his family's crippling debt, she can't express her shock and dismay. Backed i…
Akses terbatas - hanya untuk guru, tendik, dan orang tua ___ IN THE FUTURE, CRIME CAN BE PREVENTED The Department of Precrime has cut major crime by almost 100%. How? Simple: it is possible to look into the future, and then arrest potential criminals, sentence them and punish them, before they actually commit the crime. Nobody doubts the efficiency and fairness of the system, until Precrim…
Akses memerlukan izin dan pendampingan. Silakan hubungi pustakawan. ___ The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy/Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill a Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning fil…
Akses memerlukan izin dan pendampingan. Silakan hubungi pustakawan. ___ Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and local teenager, Laila as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality, and fear. Yet love can mov…
"Aku ingin menolongmu." Kokoro merasa terusir dari kelasnya sendiri hingga ia mengurung diri di rumah dan menolak pergi ke sekolah. Pada suatu hari, cermin di dalam kamarnya mengeluarkan cahaya terang. Dan di dalam cermin tersebut, ada bangunan misterius yang mirip sebuah kastel. Ada tujuh orang yang juga "diundang" ke sana--merka yang juga menolak pergi ke sekolah seperti Kokoro. Untuk a…
Akses memerlukan izin dan pendampingan. Silakan hubungi pustakawan. ___ For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she's been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle's grocery store. Desperate to leave, she's thrilled to become the au pair for the Mazer-Farleys, two Brooklyn professors an…