Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but…
Michael Havelock's world ended on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He stood by and watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was coldly and efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for Havelock but to get out, quit the game. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railway platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. She's alive - and suddenly Havelock is…
It’s the CEO who introduces us to Hook Hobie’s services. He’s also the one who further enlightens us as to the full extent of those services. Meanwhile Jack is content to be digging pools by hand during the day and playing half-naked bouncer in a titty bar at night. At least until Costello shows up in Key West. Looking for Jack Reacher. It’s enough to set off Reacher’s curiosity. W…
Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and the…
Bleak House is considered by many leading critics to be one of Dicken's finest achievements, ensuring his reputation as a serious and mature novelist as well as a consummate entertainer. It is a story of love and inheritance, and its graphic depiction of the realities and costs of HIgh Court legal actions - drawn from the author's personal knowledge and experience - have direct relevance to ou…
Lihatlah betapa waktu mengubah kita! Lihatlah berapa waktu telah mengubah jalan hidup kita dan meninggalkan kita dalam reruntuhan. Saat aku menggenggam tangan Selma untuk kucium, ia mendekat padaku dan mencium dahiku, lalu terduduk di bangku kayu. Ia menutup matanya dan berbisik lembut, "Oh Tuhan, ampunilah aku dan sambungkan sayap patahku!" Setiap laki-laki muda mengingat cinta pertamany…
Oh, Dzat yang maha pandai! Jatuhkanlah di dalam jiwaku benih Kebijakan-Mu sehingga akan tumbuh buah-buahan dalam belantara-Mu dan akan memberikan buah-Mu
... berkisah mengenai kearifan hidup yang disampaikan lewat tokoh utamanya, Almustafa. cerita berawal ketika Almustafa bersiap naik ke kapal menuju negeri asalnya setelah 12 tahun tinggal di negeri asing. Ia dihentikan oleh sekelompok penduduk negeri asing tersebut. mereka meminta Almustafa untuk berbicara mengenai rahasia yang terbentang antara kehidupan dan kematian.
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancerstral home on the strakly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his gamily cobble up new li…
Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands