Flybird's Nest

  Paperback edition Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.   Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since.   Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.   Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can ge...

  Paperback Edition Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother’s hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of “blush words” that aren’t in the Bible. One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her family’s life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame. As her parents’ suffering makes them increasingly distant, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into disturbing rituals and fantasies. Cocooned in her red winter coat, Jas dreams of “the other side” and of salvation, not knowing where this dreaming will finally lead her. A bestseller in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s radical debut novel The Discomfort of Evening offers readers ...

Trio Detektif #1 dan #2 Selama lebih dari 20 tahun belum ada seorang pun yang tahan berada di PURI SETAN sepanjang malam. Hantu biru yang bermain orgel, kabut kengerian, jeritan menyeramkan, erangan dan desahan, sanggup membuat orang yang terberani sekalipun lari tunggang langgang. Apa - atau siapa - yang menghantui puri itu? TRIO DETEKTIF bertekad untuk menyelidikinya - dengan jalan mendatangi puri itu pada malam hari !   ****  Judul : Trio Detektif #1 Misteri Puri Setan Penulis : Robert Arthur  Tahun terbit :1982 Bahasa: Indonesia Penerbit : PT Gramedia  Siapa yang bisa lupa dengan kisah 3 pemuda detektif, Jupiter, Bob dan Pete yang sempat populer di era 80-90'an? Untukku, Trio Detektif adalah salah satu serial yang membuat saya suka membaca di awal-awal usia membaca (baca : SD). Beberapa dekade berikutnya, dengan semaraknya online shopping, akhirnya saya berhasil mengumpulkan 1 set lengkap Trio Detektif dari nomor 1 sampai dengan 43.  Dengan penuh antisip...

  Hard copy Edition When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they step into the role of the kindhearted former shopkeeper who devoted his waning years to offering thoughtful counsel to his correspondents. Through the lens of time, they share insight with those seeking guidance, and by morning, none of their lives will ever be the same. By acclaimed author Keigo Higashino,  The Miracles of the Namiya General Store  is a work that has touched the hearts of readers around the world. *** Author : Keigo Higashino Pages : 307 First Published in 2012, English edition in 2019 Genre : Fantasy I get hold of this book around September 2019 when I scanned through Kinokuniya in downtown Tokyo or Nagoya, I don’t remember exactly, t...

Paperback Edition  “ Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden."   To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.  As she did in her beloved smash bestseller  Orphan Train , Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s...