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This intimate, eminently practical memoir of a successful homeschooled family of six children illuminates today’s most exciting choice in education, and shows how it works from cradle to college. What is it that homeschoolers do that the public schools can’t or won’t? There are at least as many answers as there are studies. But nothing can capture the homeschooling experience in all its richness like the story of a real family that homeschools its children in middleclass America. Homeschooling: A Family’s Journey is the perfect book for those millions of Americans who may know someone who homeschools, who may have read about it, thought about it, and wondered whether homeschooling is...
They are all trapped under a starless sky… It turns out correcting the balance of the universe is harder than anyone could have imagined. Noah and Rachel’s mission to find Caspian’s starmate is interrupted when aliens board their ship. Noah is sent into his worst nightmare, while Rachel is forced to continue on alone. Across the galaxy, Angie is trying to survive her training mission while fighting her growing feelings for Kelby. Heading back to Andrelexa, Caspian is still completely in love with Rachel, and determined to do anything to ensure her protection. When communications go down throughout the galaxies, being lost in space takes on a whole new meaning. Half Light, the romantic space opera, continues with Starless. *Mature YA/New Adult Sci-Fi Romance / Romantic Space Opera* 1
A pirate’s home is the sea, sailing beyond the horizon with her true love. Aboard the Crimson Siren, Captain Cinder finally has the life she’s always dreamed of. Her freedom is restored, her crew is a trustworthy bunch, and the princess who holds her heart is by her side. But trouble brewing back in Redmere threatens to pull Cinder and Princess Georgina apart before their future can truly begin. Georgina feels a responsibility to help, while Cinder is vehemently against returning to their former home. Instead, she embarks on a dangerous treasure hunt that could cost her everything. Faced with a deadly threat, Cinder pushes everyone around her away just when she needs them most. Friendships are tested. Risky alliances forged. Yet as storm clouds darken Cinder’s future, one thing becomes painfully clear: Her home is taking on water, and time to save the people she loves is running out. Unbroken continues the adventures of Cinder, Georgina, and the crew of the Crimson Siren. For maximum enjoyment, start with Uncharted, book 1 in the series.
The shock following the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the UK dispelled the notion that this disease was permanently under control and could be forgotten. FMD proved to be an endemic disease in many countries and continues to pose a major threat to animal health worldwide. The development of more effective and socially acceptabl
The fate of the universe is in their hands... Noah doesn’t like pressure. Too bad he has been tasked with saving the universe. Right now the only thing he can think about is finding Rachel and figuring out more about what being a starmate really means. Rachel wants nothing to do with Caspian or his starmate, but she has no choice. Finding Versaka is the only way she can have the life she dreams of with Noah. Angie doesn’t want to desire Kelby, but can she help the growing feelings between them? The problem is, he seems to want her too and turning back seems all but impossible. Caspian will do anything to protect his people and his planet, but his biggest challenge might be accepting that Rachel is in love with someone else. With so much on the line, will they be able to put their feelings and hearts to the side long enough to fill the roles they were born for? *Mature YA/New Adult Space Opera/Sci-Fi Romance* 1
Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time Eka Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics. Like nothing else, Kurniawan’s stories bury themselves in the mind. His characters and insights are at once hauntingly familiar, peculiar, and twisted.
Kronologi hidup manusia ditulis dengan banyak cara. Alih-alih menggunakan linimasa atau buku biografi, Ismail Basbeth memilih memaparkan deretan karya cerita yang ditulisnya sebagai caranya menginterpretasi segala fenomena di sekelilingnya. Ada kisah Paijo yang merasa kehilangan akar di tanah kelahirannya dalam cerita Pulang. Ada kisah Guntur yang tersesat di tengah riuhnya dunia internet. Semua manusia yang hadir dalam kumcer ini sejatinya bukan hanya orang-orang dalam hidup Ismail Basbeth. Mereka juga ada di sekitar kita, bahkan mereka adalah kita.
Semenjak peristiwa yang hampir saja meregangkan nyawanya, Jaya tak mau lagi memejamkan mata. Karena bisa saja ia benar benar mati. Peristiwa itu pun perlahan menyeretnya hingga lupa pada jati diri, sampai ia merasakan lubang menganga dalam tubuh. Sebuah kerinduan yang tak tuntas. Entah pada siapa entah tentang apa. Sebuah kesempatan didapatinya saat segalanya menjadi hancur lebur gegara insomnia akut yang diderita. Sepucuk surat dari Eyang Wiro, yang mengundangnya bergabung dalam bisnis: Perjalanan Sukma. Eyang Wiro menyadari bakat terpendam yang dimiliki Jaya, mengajarinya seluk beluk perjalanan sukma atau yang lebih dikenal dengan perjalanan astral. Lama-lama Jaya terbiasa dengan kutukan yang ia derita, mengubahnya menjadi keahlian peraup pundi-pundi uang. Tak dinyana, segala yang ia lakoni berujung pada terbukanya pintu-pintu alam dunia yang tak ia kira ternyata ada. Segala kekosongan dan kegamangan jiwa, rindu yang tak tuntas, jati diri, cinta sejati, akal bulus terkuak pada akhirnya. Kemampuannya amatlah berbahaya
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