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A Language of Dragons
S. F. Williamson • 2025
2026 reads
Wild Love (Standard Edition)
Elsie Silver • 2024
The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag • 2021
When I Arrived at the Castle
Emily Carroll • 2024
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Jen Wang • 2018
2025 reads
Saving Noah
Lucinda Berry • 2017
Ward D
Freida McFadden • 2023
When in Rome A Novel
Sarah Adams • 2022
Bad Blood
Jennifer Lynn Barnes • 2023
All in
Jennifer Lynn Barnes • 2023
Killer Instinct
Jennifer Lynn Barnes • 2023
The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes • 2023
Finding Your People The Ultimate Guide to Friendship
Alexandra Hourigan • 2025
Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto • 2021
The Summer of Broken Rules
K. L. Walther • 2021
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2025
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell that satirizes the events of the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Stalinism. It is a story that unfolds on a farm where animals, led by pigs, revolt against the tyrannical owner and assume control of a farm that symbolizes an egalitarian society. However, when the pigs do gain power, they turn out to be as tyrannical as their former masters, the oppressive humans. Or perhaps Orwell is attacking political corruption and inequality but also corrupting power -its abuse or how an idealistic movement can be destroyed by greed and manipulative people. In its deceptively simple yet profund narrative, George Orwell paints a powerful commentary of the dangers of totalitarianism in Animal Farm.
Sometimes I Lie: A Novel
Alice Feeney • 2018
ALICE FEENEY'S NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br/><br/>“Boldly plotted, tightly knotted―a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvelous.” ―AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window<br/><br/>My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:<br/>1. I’m in a coma.<br/>2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore.<br/>3. Sometimes I lie.<br/><br/>Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
My Roommate Is a Vampire
Jenna Levine • 2023
<b>A <i>USA TODAY</i> BESTSELLER!<br><br>A September Indie Next Pick<br>One of Amazon's Best Romances of September<br>One of Apple's Best Books of September<br><br>True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy.</b><br><br> Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it’s a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she’s desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch—only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price.<br><br> Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is out at night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel. He also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, cares about her art, and asks about her day. And he doesn’t look half bad shirtless, on the rare occasions they’re both home and awake. But when Cassie finds bags of blood in the fridge that <i>definitely</i> weren’t there earlier, Frederick has to come clean... <br><br> Cassie’s sexy new roommate is a vampire. And he has a proposition for her.
Romansa Stovia
Rasyid, Sania Puteri • 2024
Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak • 2023
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson • 2020
Strange Pictures
Uketsu • 2025
The Exorcist's House
Nick Roberts • 2022
My Sister, the Serial Killer A Novel
Oyinkan Braithwaite • 2019
The Exorcist's House: Genesis
Nick Roberts • 2024
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides • 2021
Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft • 2025
The Coworker
Freida McFadden • 2023
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER<br/>"Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!"― Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of Unforgivable<br/>Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.<br/>Dawn Schiff is strange.<br/>At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.<br/>So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell―beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running―is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything…<br/>It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider―she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim?<br/>But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.<br/>The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present―with deadly consequences.
Song of the Six Realms
Judy I. Lin • 2024
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!<br/><br/>Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy standalone romance about a talented musician swept away to the Celestial Realm by a handsome duke in Song of the Six Realms.<br/><br/>Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn’t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract.<br/><br/>With no family and no patron, Xue is facing the possibility of a lifetime of servitude playing the qin for nobles that praise her talent with one breath and sneer at her lowly social status with the next. Then one night she is unexpectedly called to the garden to put on a private performance for the enigmatic Duke Meng. For a young man of nobility, he is strangely kind and awkward, and surprises Xue further with an irresistible offer: serve as a musician in residence at his manor for one year, and he’ll set her free of her indenture.<br/><br/>But the Duke’s motives become increasingly more suspect when he and Xue barely survive an attack by a nightmarish monster, and when he whisks her away to his estate, she discovers he’s not just some country noble: He’s the Duke of Dreams, one of the divine rulers of the Celestial Realm. There she learns the Six Realms are on the brink of disaster, and incursions by demonic beasts are growing more frequent.<br/><br/>The Duke needs Xue’s help to unlock memories from her past that could hold the answers to how to stop the impending war… but first Xue will need to survive being the target of every monster and deity in the Six Realms.<br/><br/>Also by Judy I. Lin:<br/>A Magic Steeped in Poison<br/>A Venom Dark and Sweet
The Eyes Are the Best Part
Monika Kim • 2024
Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.<br/><br/>Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing.<br/><br/>In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.<br/><br/>For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.<br/><br/>A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Kashiwai Hisashi • 2023
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.<br/><br/>What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?<br/><br/>Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner treats its customers to wonderfully extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason to stop by . . .<br/><br/>The father-daughter duo have started advertising their services as 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are capable of recreating a dish from their customers' pasts – dishes that may well hold the keys to forgotten memories and future happiness.<br/><br/>From the widower looking for a specific noodle dish that his wife used to cook, to a first love's beef stew, the restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to the past – and a way to a more contented future.<br/><br/>A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.
Perempuan di Dalam Piano
Sekar Ayu Asmara • 2023
Vera Wongs Unsolicited Advicefor Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto • 2023
Pulang (Indonesian Edition)
Leila S. Chudori • 2012
Sinopsis: Pulang adalah drama keluarga, persahabatan, cinta dan pengkhianatan berlatar belakang tiga peristiwa bersejarah: Indonesia 30 September 1965, Prancis Mei 1968, dan Indonesia Mei 1998. Paris, Mei 1968. Ketika revolusi mahasiswa berkecamuk di Paris, Dimas Suryo seorang eksil politik Indonesia bertemu Vivienne Deveraux, seorang mahasiswa Prancis yang ikut demonstrasi melawan pemerintah Prancis. Pada saat yang sama, Dimas menerima kabar dari Jakarta: Hananto Prawiro, sahabatnya, ditangkap tentara dan dinyatakan tewas. Dimas merasa cemas dan gamang. Bersama puluhan wartawan dan seniman lain, dia tak bisa kembali ke Jakarta karena paspornya dicabut oleh pemerintah Indonesia. Sejak itu mereka mengelana tanpa status yang jelas dari Santiago ke Havana, ke Peking dan akhirnya mendarat di tanah Eropa untuk mendapatkan suaka dan menetap di sana. Di tengah kesibukan mengelola Restoran Tanah Air di Paris bersama tiga kawannya: Nug, Tjai, dan Risjaf`mereka berempat disebut Empat Pilar Tanah Air`Dimas, terus-menerus dikejar rasa bersalah karena kawan-kawannya di Indonesia satu persatu tumbang, dikejar, ditembak, atau menghilang begitu saja dalam perburuan Peristiwa 30 September. Apalagi dia tak bisa melupakan Surti Anandari`isteri Hananto`yang bersama ketiga anaknya berbulan-bulan diinterogasi tentara. Mei 1998. Lintang Utara, puteri Dimas dari perkawinan dengan Vivienne Deveraux, menyatakan keinginannya untuk ke Indonesia dan merekam pengalaman keluarga korban tragedi September 30 sebagai tugas akhir kuliah. Apa yang terkuak oleh Lintang bukan sekadar masa lalu ayahnya dengan Surti Anandari, tetapi juga bagaimana sejarah paling berdarah di negerinya mempunyai kaitan dengan Ayah dan kawan-kawan ayahnya. Bersama Segara Alam, putera Hananto Prawiro, Lintang menjadi saksi mata apa yang kemudian menjadi kerusuhan terbesar dalam sejarah Indonesia: kerusuhan Mei 1998 dan jatuhnya Presiden Indonesia yang sudah berkuasa selama 32 tahun. (http://gramediana.com/books/detail/901120609-pulang?locale=en)
2024 reads
Where the Wild Ladies Are
Aoko Matsuda • 2020
In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services--from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women—who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive “feminine” passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company. In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales—shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells—and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them.
Pembunuhan di Rumah Miring (Murder in the Crooked House) (Indonesian Edition)
Soji Shimada • 2020
Rumah Miring itu bertengger di tebing berselimut salju yang menghadap ke lautan es di ujung utara Jepang yang terpencil. Tempat yang aneh, tetapi di situlah sang jutawan Kozaburo Hamamoto membangunnya. Banyak labirin lantai yang miring dan tangga-tangga di tempat yang tidak biasa, juga topeng-topeng dan boneka seram seukuran manusia. Ketika seorang pria ditemukan mati dibunuh di salah satu kamar, polisi dipanggil, tapi mereka tak mampu memecahkan teka-teki itu. Lantas korban-korban lain berjatuhan. Maka dipanggillah Kiyoshi Mitarai, si detektif terkenal yang pernah memecahkan misteri kasus Pembunuhan Zodiak. Kalau bukan Mitarai, siapa lagi yang bisa? Tetapi mungkin Anda bisa mendahului Mitarai dalam memecahkan kasus ini? Semua petunjuknya dibeberkan dengan gamblang. Jadi, silakan ikut mencobanya.
Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 10)
Agatha Christie • 2011
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh • 2022
Laut Bercerita (Indonesian Edition)
Leila S. Chudori • 2017
Kumpulan Budak Setan (Indonesian Edition)
Eka Kurniawan • 2016
Yellowface: A Novel
R. F. Kuang • 2023
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry • 2014
The Memory Police: A Novel
Yoko Ogawa • 2020
The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel
Carsten Henn • 2024
"An unabashedly sentimental, determinedly uplifting novel about friendships forged through books." —NPR<br/><br/>Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other.<br/><br/>A bestselling phenomenon internationally, Carsten Henn's The Door-to-Door Bookstore is a feel-good novel about books and friendship.<br/><br/>"The feel-good novel for all book lovers." —Der Spiegel
Pembunuhan Zodiak Tokyo (The Tokyo Zodiac Murders)
Soji Shimada • 2020
Teka-teki Rumah Aneh
Uketsu • 2023
2023 reads
Alster Lake
Auryn Vientania • 2022
<p>Cerita ini berawal dari kisah seorang perempuan bernama Alea yang meninggalkan bukunya di perpustakaan, yang kemudian seseorang menemukan buku itu. Alea menceritakan betapa sukanya ia pada karakter fiksi di buku Alster Lake karya Dean Bjorn. Namun ternyata seseorang yang mengembalikan buku itu adalah penulisnya sendiri.</p><p>Memiliki ketertarikan yang sama tentang Jerman, Dean Bjorn jatuh cinta untuk pertama kalinya pada pembacanya itu. Ia menyatakan cintanya ketika mereka sedang berlibur bersama di Hamburg, di tepi Alster Lake, menggunakan surat cinta. Tentu saja Alea tidak menolak, karena dari awal ia sudah jatuh cinta pada karakter fiksi yang dibuat oleh Dean, yang ternyata karakter itu adalah dirinya sendiri.</p><p>Seiring berjalannya waktu mereka menjalin hubungan, ada satu masalah yang membuat mereka tak lama kemudian mengakhiri hubungan itu. Dean yang hilang kabar karena sibuk mementingkan studinya ke Jerman, sedangkan Alea yang tidak memberinya waktu untuk menjelaskan apa yang terjadi sebenarnya.</p><p>Mereka kembali menjadi dua orang asing. Tiba-tiba saat itu Alea menemukan judul buku yang tidak asing baginya, Alster Lake 2. Dimana buku itu menceritakan tentang seorang perempuan yang berarti bagi Dean. ketika membaca halaman terakhir buku itu, ia merasa buku itu tertuju pada dirnya. Dengan keberaniannya, ia berangkat ke Jerman dan mencari sosok laki-laki itu untuk menyelesaikan semuanya.</p><p>Buku persembahan penerbit Bukune</p><p>#Bukune</p>
Metropop: Resign!
Almira Bastari • 2018
THE CURSED HAND (Indonesian Edition)
SINTA SUSANTI • 2018
Sewu Dino
Simpleman • 2019
Turning Page
Auryn Vientania • 2022
The Halloween Party from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon Adventures #5) (Black Lagoon Adventures series)
Mike Thaler • 2014
Deep Trouble (Classic Goosebumps #2) (2)
R.L. Stine • 2008
Creep From the Deep (Goosebumps HorrorLand #2)
R. L. Stine • 2015
A Nightmare on Clown Street (Goosebumps Most Wanted #7) (7)
R. L. Stine • 2015
Phantom of the Auditorium #24
R. L. Stine • 1994
Sihir Perempuan (Indonesian Edition)
Intan Paramaditha • 2017
Murder by the Book (A Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery 1)
Lauren Elliott • 2018
<p><b><i>Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library—she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about mysterious old volumes. But she didn’t expect her sleuthing skills to come in so handy in a little seaside town . . .</i></b><br><br> Addie left some painful memories behind in the big city, including the unsolved murder of her fiancé and her father’s fatal car accident. After an unexpected inheritance from a great aunt, she’s moved to a small New England town founded by her ancestors back in colonial times—and living in spacious Greyborne Manor, on a hilltop overlooking the harbor. Best of all, her aunt also left her countless first editions and other treasures—providing an inventory to start her own store.<br> <br> But there’s trouble from day one, and not just from the grumpy woman who runs the bakery next door. A car nearly runs Addie down. Someone steals a copy of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>. Then, Addie’s friend Serena, who owns a nearby tea shop, is arrested—for killing another local merchant. The police seem pretty sure they’ve got the story in hand, but Addie’s not going to let them close the book on this case without a fight . . . </p>
Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder: A Delicious and Charming Cozy Mystery (A Baker Street Mystery Book 1)
Valerie Burns • 2022
Murder is a Piece of Cake: A Delicious Culinary Cozy with an Exciting Twist (A Baker Street Mystery)
Valerie Burns • 2023
Kastel Terpencil di Dalam Cermin
Mizuki Tsujimura • 2022
Cross My Heart and Never Lie
Nora Dåsnes • 2023
Mao-Mao & Berang-Berang: Penerbangan Ajaib ke Ujung Dunia
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
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The Woman in the Library
Sulari Gentill · 2022
