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Summary: Features Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. In this volume, Pooh meets the irrepressible Tigger for the first time, learns to play Poohsticks and sets a trap for a Heffalump

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Dasyat! Keren! Sangat menyentuh. Hanya itu yang bisa saya ucapkan ketika 2 tahun lalu saya membaca novel yang banyak mendapat penghargaan kelas dunia ini. Karya perdana Khaled Hosseini (seorang dokter berkebangsaan Afganistan dan tinggal di Amerika) ini benar-benar memberi sentuhan yang luar biasa tentang hubungan antarmanusia (Amir dan Hassan, serta Baba), dan tragedi kehidupan yang seringkali baru dapat ditebus di kemudian hari. Sangat manusiawi. Khaled Hosseini berhasil mengaduk-aduk emosi pembaca melalui karakter tokoh-tokohnya yang sangat kuat. Pesan utama yang ingin disampaikan Khaled adalah bahwa penyesalan memanglah selalu datang terlambat, namun selalu ada kesempatan untuk menebus rasa bersalah. Bagi yang sudah membaca, pasti setuju bahwa tokoh utama novel ini adalah Amir dan Hassan, karena Khaled memang bercerita seputar hubungan ke dua anak manusia ini. Tapi bagi saya, tokoh Baba lah si pengendali keseluruhan cerita. Kisah Amir dan Hassan semuanya bermuara dari Baba. Demikian juga akhirnya dengan Sohrab. Saya benar-benar ?jatuh cinta? pada kekuatan karakter tokoh Baba di novel ini. Alasannya sangat sentimentil: karakter Baba mirip sekali dengan karakter almarhum Bapak saya tercinta. Bedanya: Baba orang Afganistan, Bapak saya orang Batak ... :) ?Kite Runner? (KR) juga membuat kita melek soal Afganistan dan orang-orang Afgan lengkap dengan budaya, kehidupan sosial, serta trauma-trauma politik yang pernah dialami. Paparan Khaled mengenai Afganistan sangat natural dan membawa kita pada keprihatinan mendalam betapa menyebalkannya kehidupan yang selalu diganggu dengan intrik-intrik politik. Pemahaman akan Afganistan akan semakin sempurna jika Anda juga membaca ?My Forbidden Face? (MFF), karya Latifa. MFF adalah kisah nyata perjuangan seorang wanita Afganistan bernama Latifa ke luar dari negaranya yang tengah mengalami pengekangan oleh penguasa Taliban. Sama seperti Khaled Hosseini yang banyak mendapat penghargaan atas ?Kite Runner?, Latifa juga mendapat penghargaan atas keberaniannya menentang pengekangan atas kebebasan. KR dan MFF sudah difilmkan. MFF bahkan sudah tiga kali ditayangkan Metro walaupun dengan berbagai modifikasi termasuk judul. Kisah sebenarnya Latifa melarikan diri ke Paris, tapi di film, Latifa mencari suaka ke Amerika *maklum, yang buat film nya Hollywood*. Jika Anda belum membaca KR, teguhkan hati agar jangan sampai lupa bahwa ini hanyalah sebuah novel, karena Khaled berhasil mengaduk-aduk nurani pembaca dengan penggambaran karakter dan emosi yang sangat detil. ----------------------------------- Risensi oleh: Kalarensi Naibaho

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One of the most beloved English novels, it is the story of Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, and the complicated nature of love in nineteenth-century upper class England. Pride and Prejudice, an early Victorian novel of manners, centres around the budding relationship between Bennet and Darcy, neither of which fully meet the expectations of a man or a woman in their time. It has inspired numerous screen adaptations, including a 2005 film starring Keira Knightley, and a 1995 BBC mini-series starring Colin Firth, and various literary spin-offs, including the novel Longbourn by Jo Baker and the tongue-in-cheek Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

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"There was a time when they lived in the village of Beit Daras, and the sun was hot and the earth was rich. There were ruins dating back to the Crusades; now their homes, too, are ruins, and they are refugees in the small strip of Gaza. And yet, when young Khaled dies, and moves on to the afterlife, it is back in Beit Daras that he finds himself. And from here he may slip through history, watching the continuing the story of his matriarchal family. He sees his grandmother, Nazmiyeh, once the prettiest, baddest girl in the town, the eternal ringleader. The other girls felt she hung the sky. He sees his mother, Alwan, who loves quietly and strongly, and who sustains the family through her embroidery work, stitching the stars and moon in place. He sees the great-aunts and cousins, and his sunny little sister, Rhet Shel. Finally, there is the branch of the family that moves to Kuwait, and then to America, where Nur, his mother's cousin, begins to lose herself. She will return to Mediterranean shores to find her past, and rediscover the ties of kinship that transcend distance and even death. Born of the violent, troubling history which continues to rage forth and claim its dead, The Blue Between Sky and Water is very much a novel of survival, and of the vivid, powerful women whose world they manage, with each day, to enlarge and to enliven"--Publisher.

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Summary: There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all stories in this region of shadows relate to one particularly dreadful spectre - the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollo