Flybird's Nest

Starter For Ten Book ID: Judul : Starter For Ten Penulis : David Nicholls Hlmn : 480 Tahun terbit : 2003 Genre : New Adult Fiction Blurbs: The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first term at university. He has a dark secret–a long-held, burning ambition to appear on the wildly popular British TV quiz show University Challenge–and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. He’s made the school team, and they’ve completed the qualifying rounds and are limbering up for their first televised match. (And, what’s more, he’s fallen head over heels for one of his teammates, the beautiful, brainy, and intimidatingly posh Alice Harbinson.) Life seems perfect and triumph inevitable–but as his world opens up, Brian learns that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. *** Nama David Nicholls menjadi familiar sejak novel One Day yang meledak dan dijadikan film yang dibintangi oleh Anne Hathaway-dan...

Nadira Who Is it? Judul : Nadira Penulis : Leila S. Chudori Cetakan Pertama pada : Maret 2015 Bahasa : Indonesia Hlmn : 301 Penerbit : Kapustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG) -----***----- Di sebuah pagi yang murung, Nadira Suwandi menemukan Ibunya tewas bunuh diri. Kematian sang ibu, Kemala Yunus, seorang perempuan yang dikenal sangat ekspresif, berfikiran bebas, dan selalu bertarung mencari diri itu, sungguh mengejutkan. Tewasnya Kemala kemudian mempengaruhi kehidupan Nadira sebagai seorang anak ("Melukis Langit"); seorang wartawan ("Tasbih");seorang kekasih ("Ciuman Terpanjang"); seorang istri, hingga akhirnya membawa Nadira kepada sebuah penjelajahan ke dunia baru, dunia seksualitas yang tak pernah disentuhnya ("Kirana"). ----***----  Sejujurnya, saya lupa kapan terakhir kali membaca Novel berbahasa Indonesia setelah sequel kelima Supernova karya Dee. Kebetulan kemarin ada promo voucher di Gramedia dan saya sedang...

Paperback Edition Orphan Train "I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable."- Christina Baker Kline di Orphan Train *** Judul : Orphan Train Penulis : Christina Baker Kline Hlmn.  : 320 Thn.terbit pertama kali : 2013 Genre : Sejarah, Melodrama, fiksi Sinopsis:  Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance. Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life—answers that w...

Attractive cover High Fidelity Identities: Author : Nick Hornby Language : English Publication date : 1995 Publisher : Penguin Books Pages : 253 pgs   R ob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers. Rob tries dating a singer, but maybe it’s just that he’s always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that life with kids, marriage, barbecues, and soft rock CDs might not be so bad. ***   You'd know this guy, or at some point of your life, may be, you were Rob Flemming.  N...

Intriguing cover Girl in Pieces Book Information:  Girl in Pieces Author : Kathleen Glasgow Pages : 398 Publisher: Delacorte Press Genre : Young Adult (YA), Psichology thriler ***   Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.    Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.   A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreak...

Lovely Cover of Counting by 7s Counting by 7s Author : Holly Goldberg Sloan Date Published : August 2013 Genre : Young Adult Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.   Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is  not  a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read. **** I know I should stop to read book something like this, dark, sad and lost. Anyway with dark themed, Counting by 7s is quite light and en...

The Boy on the Wooden Box Book ID's Title : The Boy on the Wooden Box Author : Leon Leyson Date Published : Aug 2013 Genre : Memoir **** In the #1 New York Times bestseller, Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson’s life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory—a list that became world renowned: Schindler’s List. This, ...