Jumat, 16 Januari 2015

The Passage (Justin Cronin)


The Passage
Penulis: Justin Cronin
Penerbit: Ballantine Books
Bahasa: Inggris (impor)
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: mulus seperti baru
Harga: Rp. 55.000,-

SINOPSIS:

It's called Project NOAH: a secret government experiment designed to weaponize the human body. But the experiment goes horribly awry when twelve test subjects escape, spreading a virus that turns human beings into something else--something hungrier, deadlier, and seemingly indestructible. The thirteenth test subject, a six-year-old girl, is rescued by an FBI agent. Together they flee to the mountains of Oregon, cut off from civilization as the disastrous repercussions of Project NOAH unleashed upon the world.

"Don't wait to dive into The Passage... Simmering in the background of this frightening thriller...is a heartfelt portrayal of the human capacity to fight, endure and hope for a better world." -- USA Today

"Engrossing... By the third chapter, trash was piling up in our house because I was too scared to take out the garbage at night." -- Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"Mythic storytelling." --San Francisco Chronicle

4th of July (James Patterson & Maxine Paetro)


4th of July (Women's Murder Club #4)
Penulis: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Bahasa: Inggris (impor)
Penerbit: Vision
Format: Paperback
Kondisi: baik
Harga: Rp. 40.000,-

SINOPSIS:
The Bestselling New Detective Series of the Decade Just Got Hotter, Deadlier, and More Suspenseful. In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a family destroyed, and Lindsay herself at the mercy of twelve jurors. During a break in the trial, she retreats to a picturesque town that is reeling from a string of grisly murders-crimes that bear a link to a haunting, unsolved case from her rookie years.Now, with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay must battle for her life on two fronts: in a trial rushing to a climax, and against an unknown adversary willing to do anything to hide the truth about the homicides-including kill again...

Women's Murder Club #1-2 (James Patterson)


Women's Murder Club #1-2 (1st to Die, 2nd Chance)
Penulis: James Patterson
Bahasa: Inggris (impor)
Penerbit: Grand Central Publishing
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: bagus
Harga: Rp. 70.000,-

SINOPSIS:

1st To Die
You're about to begin James Patterson's most exciting thriller yet. In San Francisco newlyweds are being stalked--and slaughtered. Enter four unforgettable women, all friends... Lindsay, a homicide inspector in the city's police department... Claire, a medical examiner... Jill, an assistant D.A. ...and Cindy, a reporter who has just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Joining forces, pooling their talents, courage, and brains, they have one goal: to find, trap, and outwit the most diabolical and terrifying killer ever imagined.

2nd Chance
The Women's Murder Club is back! A brilliantly diabolical killer is murdering people from every walk of life. The deaths seem unrelated but police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and, together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D.A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.

Summerland (Elin Hilderbrand)



Summerland
Penulis: Elin Hilderbrand
Bahasa: Inggris (Impor)
Penerbit: Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: bagus
Harga: Rp. 35.000,-

SINOPSIS:
A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.

As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents--secrets kept, promises broken, hearts betrayed. Elin Hilderbrand explores the power of community, family, and honesty, and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight.
 

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)


The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Mystery #1)
Penulis: Alan Bradley
Bahasa: Inggris (impor)
Penerbit: Bantam
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: mulus seperti baru
Harga: Rp. 45.000,-

SINOPSIS:
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.

For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”

Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)


Mystic River
Penulis: Dennis Lehane
Bahasa: Inggris (impor)
Penerbit: Harper
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: Mulus seperti baru
Harga: Rp. 45.000,-

SINOPSIS:
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened --- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.

Now, years later, murder has tied their lives together again ...

The Town (Prince of Thieves) (Chuck Hogan)



The Town (Previously Published as Prince of Thieves)
Penulis: Chuck Hogan
Bahasa: Inggris (Impor)
Penerbit: Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: Mulus seperti baru
Harga: Rp. 45.000,-

SINOPSIS:
Four masked men--thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown--take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn't plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire. When he tracks her down without his mask and gun, their mutual attraction is undeniable. With a tenacious FBI agent following his every move, he imagines life away from his gritty, dangerous work--a life centered around Claire. But before that can happen, Doug and his crew learn that there may be a way to rob Boston's venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. Risky yet utterly irresistible, it would be the perfect heist to end his criminal career. But, as it turns out, pursuing Claire may be the most dangerous act of all.

Racing to an explosive climax, The Town is a brash tale of robbery in all its forms--and an odyssey of crime, love, ambition, and dreams.

Alex Cross Series #1-10 (James Patterson)







Alex Cross Series #1-10 (Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, Jack & Jill, Cat & Mouse, Pop Goes the Weasel, Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Four Blind Mice, The Big Bad Wolf, London Bridges)
Penulis: James Patterson
Bahasa: Inggris (Impor)
Penerbit: Grand Central Publishing, Vision
Format: Mass Market Paperback (pocket book)
Kondisi: Bagus
Harga: Rp. 250.000,-

SINOPSIS:

#1 ALONG CAME A SPIDER
Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.

#2 KISS THE GIRLS
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.Us Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing--and they are working coast to coast.

#3 JACK & JILL
Someone kills one of the most powerful men in the U.S. Senate--and the whole world is watching. Someone murders a small black girl on the mean streets of Washington--and no one seems to care. But only D.C. homicide cop Alex Cross suspects that the evil striking down both the high and the low wears the same shocking face. Now in his most terrifying case, Cross must stop a deadly force before it destroys the very foundation of this nation...

#4 CAT & MOUSE
A murderer named Gary Soneji patiently waits in the basement of Alex Cross's home in Washington. He has come to kill Cross and his family. But this cunning hunter is not alone. Now two mind-numbing killers--one operating up and down the East Coast of America, one in Europe, believe Cross is their only worthy opponent. They dare to ask the ultimate question: Is Alex Cross about to die? You won't put CAT & MOUSE down until the question is answered.

#5 POP GOES THE WEASEL
Detective Alex Cross encounters the most vicious--and brilliant--killer of his career. Alex Cross is in love but his happiness is threatened when chilling murders suddenly strike Washington, D.C.--murders with a pattern so twisted they leave investigators reeling. Cross's pursuit of the killer produces a suspect: British diplomat Geoffrey Shafer. But proving he's the murderer soon becomes a deadly task. Now as Shafer engages in a cunning series of surprising countermoves, Alex and his fiancee become hopelessly entangled with the most memorable nemesis Cross has ever faced.

#6 ROSES ARE RED
In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building — and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter.
Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary bank robber at work — the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a personal crisis at home, but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime.


# 7 VIOLETS ARE BLUE
Is San Francisco the killing ground for what appears to be the work of vampires rather than humans? Washington, D.C., Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes--but nothing as preternaturally gruesome as the murders of the two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to handle the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Now Cross's nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, will stalk and taunt him, and, once again, threatens everything he holds dear.

#8 FOUR BLIND MICE
On the verge of resigning from the D.C. police force, Detective Alex Cross knows he can't refuse this case. His partner John Sampson has a friend who has been framed for murder and is facing the gas chamber. His accusers? The United States Army. As a new woman in Cross's life brings him hope in the face of a devastating loss at home, Cross and Sampson go up against codes of honor and silence and three ruthless killers. But a bigger threat lies in wait: their controller, a lethal genius who will introduce Cross to new depths of terror...the last of the FOUR BLIND MICE.

#9 THE BIG BAD WOLF
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, beautiful women are being kidnapped--to be bought and sold as slaves. Behind his depraved scheme stands a shadowy figure known only as The Wolf, a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime. With Alex's personal life in chaos because of his ex-fiancee's return and with the FBI's caution testing his patience, Alex has to go out of his own. For to stalk a ruthless predator without a name or a face, Alex Cross must become a lone wolf himself.

#10 LONDON BRIDGES
Two of the Greatest villains James Patterson has ever created in one book!

Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross's deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger --- and toward the explosive truth about the Wolf's identity, a revelation that Cross may not survive.



Kamis, 01 Januari 2015

Fortunately, The Milk (Neil Gaiman)


Fortunately, The Milk (Untunglah, Susunya)
Penulis: Neil Gaiman
Bahasa: Indonesia (Terjemahan)
Penerbit: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Format: Paperback (soft-cover)
Kondisi: Bagus (mulus seperti baru)
Harga: Rp. 20.000,-

SINOPSIS:

“Aku membeli susu,” kata Ayah. “Aku keluar dari toko pojok, dan mendengar suara aneh seperti ini: dhum… dhumm… Aku mendongak, dan kulihat piringan perak besar menggantung di atas Jalan Marshall.”

“Halo,” pikirku. “Itu bukan sesuatu yang kaulihat setiap hari. Lalu sesuatu yang aneh terjadi.”

Ingin tahu kelanjutan ceritanya? Baca saja petualangan aneh dan ajaib ini, yang diceritakan dengan lucu oleh Neil Gaiman, penulis bestseller pemenang Newbery Medalist. Ilustrasi oleh Skottie Young.