Ashley was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak.
Wealthy donors have gathered at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to hear plans for a controversial new exhibit. D.A. Alex Cooper is off duty for the evening and enjoying the proceedings, until the body of a young researcher is found in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus.
In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangero…
The insightful story of how an over-protected girl becomes a self-confident young woman.The insightful story of how an over-protected girl becomes a self-confident young woman.
Let it be flour babies. Let chaos reign. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.
The bestselling author of Birdsongand Charlotte Graydelivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved Englishwoman whose husband, Charlie, is posted to the British embassy in Washington. One night at a c…
he #1 bestselling book that defined the 20th century—now updated for the 25th Anniversary! Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: a. lose 7 pounds b. stop smoking c. develop Inner Poise Bridget Jones’s Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget’s permanent, doomed quest for …
“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”
Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk adalah sebuah judul novel dari trilogi novel karya Ahmad Tohari yang merupakan novel pertama dari trilogi tersebut. Dua judul lainnya adalah Lintang Kemukus Dini Hari dan Jantera Bianglala. Novel ini–Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk, membuka ceritanya dengan mendeskripsikan suatu keadaan sebuah perkampungan di daerah Jawa. Memuat cerita kehidupan dan adat kebiasaan masyarakat di Duku…
Imagine the delight and challenge of entering into a one-on-one political and personal conversation with the founding father of modern Singapore. This is exactly the timely treat that awaits you in Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew. The first in the Giants of Asia series, this succinct, penetrating, richly detailed and candid book on Lee Kuan Yew represents the Asian legend s first extended conve…