Petals from the Sky

 Judul : Petals from the Sky

Penulis : Mingmei Yip

Tebal : 552 halaman

Penerbit : Gagas Media

Di usia kedua puluh tahun, Meng Ning memutuskan untuk menjadi biksuni (pendeta wanita agama Buddha) dan langsung ditentang keras oleh ibunya. Di mata beliau, kehidupan membiara tak jauh-jauh dari penderitaan: tak ada kebebasan, hidup tanpa cinta dan daging. Tapi, dimata Meng Ning, menjadi biksuni adalah kesempatan berharga untuk memegang kendali penuh atas takdir hidupnya, dan menikmati sepuas-puasnya belajar musik, seni, puisi - sesuatu yang tidak ditawarkan oleh ikatan perkawinan.

Ditemani mentornya, Yi Kong, Meng Ning akan menghabiskan sepuluh tahun belajar di luar negeri, membiasakan diri hidup selibat, dan mempersiapkan diri untuk hidup membiara. Namun, sebuah insiden kebakaran membelokkan takdirnya ke situasi yang benar-benar berbeda.

Firefly Lane

 Judul : Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane #1)

Penulis : Kristin Hannah

Tebal : 479 halaman

Penerbit : Pan Books

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the social food-chain at school. Then, to her amazement, the 'coolest girl in the world' moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all - beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be, but they make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable.

For thirty years Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship, jealousy, anger, hurt and resentment. Tully follows her ambition to find fame and success. Kate knows that all she wants is to fall in love and have a family but what she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart and puts their courage and lifelong friendship to the ultimate test.

The Wonder

 Judul: The Wonder

Penulis: Emma Donoghue

Tebal: 291 halaman

Penerbit: Picador

Lib Wright, a young English nurse, arrives in an impoverished Irish village on a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for months but appears to be thriving miraculously. With tourists thronging to see the child, and the press sowing doubt, the baffled community looks to an outsider to bring the facts to lights. Lib's job is simple: to watch the girl and uncover the truth.

An educated sceptic, trained by the legendary Florence Nightingale and repelled by what she sees as ignorance and superstition, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax right away. But as she gets to know the girl, over the long days they spend together, Lib becomes more and more unsure. Is Anna a fraud, or a 'living wonder'? Or is something more sinister unfolding right before Lib's eyes, a tragedy in which she herself is playing a part?

Still Alice

 Title: Still Alice

Author: Lisa Genova

Number of Page: 336

Publisher: Pocket Books

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...

Little Fires Everywhere

 Judul : Little Fires Everywhere

Penulis : Celeste Ng

Tebal : 388 halaman

Penerbit : Hachette UK

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principal is playing by the rules.

Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.

Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost...

The Traveling Cat Chronicles

Judul : The Traveling Cat Chronicles

Penulis : Hiro Arikawa

Tebal : 364 halaman

Penerbit : Haru Media

Aku adalah seekor kucing.
Dia adalah seorang pemuda penyuka kucing.
“Kau selalu tidur di sini?”
Kenapa mau protes?
“Manisnya ....”
Memang. Banyak yang bilang begitu.
“Boleh ku sentuh ?”
Maaf saja, tidak boleh.

Kukira dia hanya akan jadi satu dari sekian banyak orang yang cuma lewat dalam kehidupanku sebagai kucing liar.
Akan tetapi, dia menyelamatkan nyawaku.
Sebagai gantinya, aku biarkan dia memeliharaku,
Karena aku kucing yang manis.

Setelah lima tahun kami bersama,
Satoru harus mencari orang untuk mengadopsiku
Karena satu dan lain hal.

Maka, kami berdua pun memulai sebuah perjalanan panjang mengendarai mobil wagon perak kesukaanku ke berbagai penjuru negeri untuk menemui teman-teman lama Satoru.

Akan tetapi, ada satu hal yang Satoru sembunyikan dariku....

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Judul : The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Penulis : Gabrielle Zevin

Tebal : 258 halaman

Penerbit : Algonquin Books

A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life over -- and see everything anew.

Sabtu Bersama Bapak

Judul : Sabtu Bersama Bapak

Penulis : Adhitya Mulya

Tebal : 278 halaman

Penerbit : Gagasmedia

Ini adalah sebuah cerita. Tentang seorang pemuda yang belajar mencari cinta. Tentang seorang pria yang belajar menjadi bapak dan suami yang baik. Tentang seorang ibu yang membesarkan mereka dengan penuh kasih. Dan…, tentang seorang bapak yang meninggalkan pesan dan berjanji selalu ada bersama mereka.

Memori

Judul : Memori

Penulis : Windry Ramadhina

Tebal : 312 halaman

Penerbit : Gagasmedia

Mahoni sudah cukup sukses menapak kariernya di Virginia sebagai arsitek. Sampai suatu hari ia mendapat telepon kalau ayahnya meninggal dan dia harus balik ke Jakarta. 

Mahoni pernah dekat dengan ayahnya dulu. Ia kerap kali menonton ayahnya bekerja sebagai tukang kayu, membangun sesuatu. Lalu orang tuanya bercerai. Mahoni tinggal bersama ibunya yang adalah seorang ratu drama, sementara ayahnya menikah lagi dan punya anak bernama Sigi.

Kini Mahoni terpaksa kembali ke Indonesia dan tinggal di rumah lamanya bersama Sigi, remaja ingusan yang belum bisa hidup sendiri. Tewasnya ayah dan ibu kandungnya membuat Sigi berkabung di dalam kamar terus-menerus. Sementara Mahoni... Ia berjuang dengan memori-memorinya di rumah itu, beradaptasi dengan kehidupan barunya dan melepaskan pekerjaannya di Virginia, berhadapan kembali dengan ibunya yang masih seperti anak kecil, dan bertemu kembali dengan Simon, pria yang dulu pernah berarti baginya.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Judul : The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Penulis : Jonas Jonasson

Tebal : 396 halaman

Penerbit : Hesperus

It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not...

Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, we learn something of Allan's earlier life in which - remarkably - he helped to make the atom bomb, became friends with American presidents, Russian tyrants, and Chinese leaders, and was a participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth century. 

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Judul : One Hundred Years of Solitude

Penulis : Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Tebal : 422 halaman

Penerbit : Penguin Books

'MANY YEARS LATER, AS HE FACED THE FIRING SQUAD, COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDÍA WAS TO REMEMBER THAT DISTANT AFTERNOON WHEN HIS FATHER TOOK HIM TO DISCOVER ICE'

Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Úrsula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía and his father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands.

Through plagues of insomia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendía household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds... 

And The Mountain Echoed

Title : And The Mountain Echoed

Writer : Khaled Hosseini

Number of Page : 404 

Publisher : Bloomsbury

Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled.

One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.

Crossing generations and continents, moving from Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco, to the Greek island of Tinos, with profound wisdom, depth, insight and compassion, Khaled Hosseini writes about the bonds that define us and shape our lives, the ways that we help our loved ones in need, how the choices we make resonate through history, and how we are often surprised by the people closest to us. 

Casual Vacancy

Judul : Casual Vacancy

Penulis : J. K. Rowling

Tebal : 568 halaman

Penerbit : Sphere Books

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils ... Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

A Street Dream: The Evergreen Architecture

Judul : A Street Dream: The Evergreen Architecture

Penulis : Angel G

Tebal : 510 halaman

Penerbit : CV. Evergreen Creative House

Menyimpan mimpi untuk mengubah dunia dengan kejujuran, jutawan muda Sean Walker mengubur masa lalu gelapnya di balapan liar hutan evergreen bersama kisah misterius lenyapnya Billy. Ketika kehidupan barunya sebagai pembalap nasional sekaligus mahasiswa biasa di departemen arsitektur malah mempertemukannya dengan sahabat-sahabat tak biasa:

Nathan Evan—mahasiswa miskin nyaris dropped out yang berjuang menjadi DJ berbekal sepasang turntable tua, di tengah trauma akan kematian adiknya yang tertembak dengan kepala pecah dalam perkelahian gangster di club kota. 
Rachel Scott—mahasiswi arsitektur teladan yang tak pernah percaya pada mimpi. Hingga George Thomas—mahasiswa Departemen Musik yang membawa handgun kemana pun, rapper mantan penghisap ganja yang lahir dari kerasnya kehidupan kumuh ghetto penuh kriminalitas.

Cerita anak-anak muda yang mempertaruhkan sebuah keyakinan, mengejar mimpi, dan mencari arti kejujuran yang akhirnya malah mereka temukan di jalan jalan pinggiran kota. Mulai dari kisah imigran gelap yang menjadi pembalap kriminal di pinggir pelabuhan, corat-coret pemberontakan dalam graffiti ilegal di dinding lorong lorong kota, cinta seorang stripper, hingga penari dan rapper-rapper jalanan yang mengejar mimpi di bawah garis kemiskinan. Mulai dari nyaris terbunuh berandal-berandal kota yang berjuang bertahan hidup, anak kecil buruh perkebunan yang mengajarkan makna terbang tanpa sayap, hingga cerita kakek tua yang menjadi penyanyi jalanan di atas kursi roda. 

Semua akhirnya menguak filosofi indah di balik kisah lenyapnya Billy serta mimpinya dan Sean yang tak pernah berubah: mimpi untuk mengubah dunia... dengan murninya sebuah kejujuran hati.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Judul : Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Penulis : Jonathan Safran Foer

Tebal : 326 halaman

Penerbit : Penguin

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

Cewek Matre

Judul : Cewek Matre

Penulis : Alberthiene Endah

Tebal : 464 halaman

Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Lola humas radio City Girls FM yang cerdas, cantik, seksi, dan... miskin! Miskin? Yah, tentu saja! Dengan gaji yang seadanya, Lola tidak mampu membeli tas branded, sepatu mahal, gaun mewah, dan jelas tak bisa bersaing dengan teman-temannya yang pulang-pergi belanja di Singapura dan Hong Kong. Bosan berkeluh-kesah, Lola menjalankan taktik baru: jadi cewek matre! Memang itu kan fungsi adanya pria-pria kaya dan mapan di Jakarta ini? Dengan segera Lola bergelimang kebahagiaan. Sepatu dan tas baru, gaun indah, dan perawatan tubuh yang membuatnya tampil semakin kinclong. Tapi semua itu bukannya tanpa harga yang mahal. Hatinya kusut. Otaknya ruwet. Dan saat cinta sejati datang, Lola menangis... cinta dan harta sama-sama merupakan pilihan yang menarik!

Friends Forever

Judul : Friends Forever

Penulis : Danielle Steel

Tebal : 384 halaman

Penerbit : Dell

Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy, and Sean—each bursting with their own personality, strikingly different looks and talents, in sports, science, and the arts. Each drawn by the magical spark of connection that happens to the young. At the exclusive Atwood School, on a bright September day, starting in kindergarten they become an inseparable group known to outsiders as the Big Five. In this rarefied world, five families grow closer, and five children bloom beside one another, unaware of the storms gathering around them.
 
As they turn from grade-schoolers to teenagers, seemingly perfect lives are buffeted by unraveling families, unfortunate missteps, and losses and victories great and small. And, one by one, they turn back to the Big Five to regain their footing and their steady course. But as they emerge from Atwood and enter the college years, the way forward is neither safe nor clear. As their lives separate and diverge, the challenges and risks become greater, the losses sharper, and the right paths harder to choose, in a journey of friendship, survival, and love.
 
In what may be her most intricate and emotionally powerful novel yet, Danielle Steel tells a heart-wrenching, ultimately triumphant story that spans decades, weaves together a vivid cast of characters, and captures the challenges we face in life—sometimes, if we’re lucky, with a friend forever by our side.

Sunset Bersama Rosie

Judul : Sunset Bersama Rosie

Penulis : Tere Liye

Tebal : 429 halaman

Penerbit : Mahaka Publishing

Hari itu... 

Rosie, Nathan, bersama dengan keempat putri mereka sedang makan di Jimbaran. Dengan video call, mereka membagi pengalaman mereka dengan Tegar di Jakarta. Begitu bahagia dan ceria. Namun bom dari seorang teroris menghancurkan semuanya.

Nathan meninggal sementara Rosie tenggelam dalam kesedihan hingga tak lagi bisa berfungsi. Tegar terpaksa membatalkan pertunangannya dan langsung melesat ke Pulau Bali untuk membantu keluarga itu.

Tegar dan Rosie bersahabat sejak kecil. Sebelum Nathan memasuki kehidupan mereka, Tegar selalu berharap bisa menyatakan perasaannya pada Rosie. Tapi ia gagal karena Nathan bergerak lebih cepat.

Kini Tegar diberi kesempatan lagi. Ia bisa memilih antara Rosie dan gadis yang akan dinikahinya, Sekar. Hanya saja perasaan tidak bisa diperlakukan semudah itu. Ada banyak hati yang akan terluka.

29 1/2 hari

Judul : 29 1/2 hari

Penulis : Nia Nurdiansyah

Tebal : 365 halaman

Penerbit : Grasindo

Mulanya mereka hanyalah orang asing. Namun takdir yang terkadang melampaui logika mempertemukan mereka...

Grey, Nero, Kenzi, dan Keira serta seseorang yang menyebut dirinya Penonton Anonim mulanya telah begitu yakin dengan jawaban-jawaban parsial mengenai keterpisahannya dengan cinta dan kehidupan sehingga nyaris tak pernah berpikir bahwa ada sesuatu yang perlu mereka pelajari tentang cinta dan kehidupan. 

Sampai suatu hari....

Grey, seorang fotografer dan travel writer, mulai mempertanyakan di manakah sesungguhnya 'rumahnya' berada dan mulai melakukan perjalanan napak tilas selama 29 1/2 hari.

Nero, seorang produser yang sejak menggarap realiti dokudrama '29 1/2 Hari' mulai menyadari bahwa ada hal lain yang lebih penting untuk dicapai selain berada di puncak karier.

Kenzi, peneliti yang sibuk bereksperimen untuk menemukan zat yang dapat membuat seseorang merasakan sensasi jatuh cinta, mendapati bahwa ada hal lain yang semestinya ia pelajari dan teliti. Takdir.

Keira, presenter acara televisi yang hidupnya terikat di masa lalu dan terus menunggu seseorang untuk mengembalikan bagian terkecil di hatinya, perangkat penting untuk mencintai, namun menemukan bahwa yang seharusnya ia lakukan untuk mendapatkan cinta sejati adalah melepaskan masa lalunya.

Room

Title : Room

Writer : Emma Donoghue

Number of Page : 361 halamana

Publisher : Back Bay Books

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. 

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.