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Lotus In The Mud

Annelie · 2023

Selalu Akan Ada Kesempurnaan Di Dalam Ketidaksempurnaan. Lotus In The Mud. Satu Pepatah Bilang, Jika Tidak Ada Lumpur, Maka Tidak Akan Ada Bunga Lotus Yang Tumbuh Mekar Dari Dalam Air. Begitulah Kehidupan. Setiap Manusia Membutuhkan Perjuangan Demi Memekarkan Bunga Di Dalam Diri Masing-masing. Audine Dan Ocean, Dua Manusia Rapuh Yang Sama-sama Menghadapi Hidup Segelap Lumpur Kotor. Si Peri Bunga Manis, Akhirnya Tidak Lagi Terbang Sendirian Bersama Sayapnya Yang Patah Setelah Dipertemukan Dengan Ocean. Lelaki Bernama Samudera Yang Tanpa Seorang Pun Tahu, Justru Tengah Tenggelam Di Dalam Lautnya Sendiri. Mereka Siap Menjadi Bukti Dari Satu Pepatah Melalui Cerita Masing-masing, Yang Mereka Tulis Hingga Halaman Terakhir. Tentang Perjuangan, Air Mata, Persahabatan, Dan Cinta. Buku Persembahan Penerbit Akadgroup #akadgroup

Turning Page

Auryn Vientania · 2022

Sebenarnya, Dean Tak Pernah Ingin Menggambar Manusia Di Buku Sketsanya. Menurutnya Menggambar Adalah Untuk Mengabadikan Sesuatu. Dan Manusia Tidak Pernah Abadi. Untuk Apa Digambar Jika Mereka Bisa Berubah Sewaktu-waktu? Tetapi Alea Adalah Pengecualian. Memang, Gadis Itu Sama Seperti Manusia Pada Umumnya, Yang Bisa Berubah Kapan Saja. Mungkin Tujuan Dean Bukan Untuk Mengabadikan. Dia Hanya Ingin Berharap Agar Alea Tidak Berubah Agar Alea Selalu Menjadi Perempuan Yang Dean Kenal. Buku Persembahan Penerbit Bukune #bukune

How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie Books)

Dale Carnegie · 1998

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman · 2016

<b>From the team that brought you <i>The Obstacle Is the Way</i> and <i>Ego Is the Enemy</i>, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant <i>Wall Street Journal</i> and <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller.<br><br></b>Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.<br><br><i>The Daily Stoic</i> offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. <br><br>By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2002

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2009

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2020

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Leo Tolstoy · 2017

<p>'How Much Land Does a Man Need?' is a short story by Leo Tolstoy. A peasant overhears his wife and sister-in-law argue over the merits of town and peasant farm life. He thinks to himself "if I had plenty of land, I shouldn't fear the Devil himself!". Unbeknownst to him, Satan is present sitting behind the stove and listening.</p>

The Waves

Virginia Woolf · 1978

The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)

Alexandre Dumas père · 2003

Anna Karenina

Lev Tolstoy · 2013

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1989

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2019

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides · 1994

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

Robin Sharma · 1999

<p>Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace <p> This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, <i>The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari</i> tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to: <p><ul><li> Develop Joyful Thoughts, <p><li> Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling, <p><li> Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously, <p><li> Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity, <p><li> Nourish Our Relationships, and <p><li> Live Fully, One Day at a Time.</ul>

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Anthony Doerr · 2014

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Moby Dick: Herman Melville's Original Adventure Classic

Herman Melville · 2024

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 2002

Please Look After Mom  

Kyung-Sook Shin · 2011

Near to the Wild Heart (Ndp; 1225)

Clarice Lispector · 2012

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom · 2003

Hamlet

William Shakespeare · 2021

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran · 2022