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DI MANA KAWAN TOK BAH
by Mohd Khairul Azman Ismail
Tok Bah memelihara pelbagai jenis haiwan ternakan. Haiwan-haiwan itu ibarat kawan kepada Tok Bah. Suatu hari, Tok Bah dapati tiada satu pun haiwan di kandang dan reban. Maka bermulalah pencarian Tok Bah terhadap kawan-kawannya itu.
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DUNIA HAIWAN DI ALAM MELAYU: MITOS, MISTIK DAN SEJARAH
by Azharudin Mohamed Dali (Dr.)
Haiwan telah sekian lama hidup berdampingan dengan manusia di Alam Maya, sama ada dalam bentuk fizikal, simbolik dan metafora. Malahan, ikatan antara haiwan dan orang Melayu juga menjadi sebahagian daripada weltanschauung orang Melayu itu secara keseluruhannya. Penelitian diberikan khususnya kepada gajah, harimau, buaya dan kuda yang sememangnya mempunyai kaitan dengan ekonomi dan sosiobudaya orang Melayu.
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KONSERVASI FLORA DAN FAUNA
by Khairuddin Kamaruddin
Kejadian demi kejadian akibat daripada perbuatan pembuangan haram sisa toksik dan pembakaran terbuka hingga mendatangkan pencemaran alam sekitar mencemaskan dan mengundang kegusaran serta kemarahan ramai pihak. Konflik serangan binatang liar kekawasan perkampungan di sempadan pinggir hutan yang menyebabkan kerosakan harta benda seterusnya mengancam nyawa merupakan kesan daripada jenayah alam sekitar yang sewenang-wenangnya memusnahkan habitat hutan belantara, iaitu rumah kepada hidupan fauna itu sendiri. Bagi menjawab permasalahan ini, buku ini mengandungi maklumat tentang sebab, faktor dan langkah yang perlu dilakukan bagi menghalang kejadian tersebut berlaku.
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TOLONG, SANG SEMUT HANYUT!
by Mahaya Mohd. Yassin, Hasni Jamali
This book portrays the spirit of love and cooperation between different types of insects. A dragonfly notices an ant falling into a river, and quickly throws a leaf to help it. The dragonfly quickly seeks help. It asks a housefly, a butterfly, a bee, a grasshopper, and a beetle for help. It also gets information from a duck, an egret, a kingfisher, and an otter. Finally, all six of them successfully pull the ant to the ground.
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1, 2, 3 HEMBUS
by Mimi Salleh
Wana has the most joy playing along with winds and rainbows. One day, a flock of birds tweeting about a fire spreading in the near jungle and they are trying to help ceasing the flames. Wana has self-doubt : ‘Am I able to help?’ She meets Dry Leaf and Old Tree. Their wisdoms have changed Wana’s views on her own potential and self-confidence. Dry Leaf and Old Tree believe that they still benefit the world even though they are physically decaying, cracking and shredding. Wana uses her power to blow heavy clouds over the area and control the fire from spreading to a village nearby. At the end, the fire ceased. Wana is happy that she could help out for the benefit of many! Good values: - Size does not matter in doing good deeds. - Lend a hand to those in need with the resources that we have. - Everyone has the ability to be the best they can be.
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Not Virgin Mary
by Feby Indirani
Maria is pregnant. Without sleeping with anyone and outside of wedlock. When she finds out about it, she is terrified. It was the year of 2016. No one believed in miracles like the Virgin Mary anymore. Today, who would believe that Maria could get pregnant without having an intercourse with a man? Especially, since Maria is not a virgin. In this thrilling and provocative international debut, Indirani offers a female point of view to mold surprising narratives on religious orthodoxy and how it affects the lives of women and other minorities. It explores the Islamic universe of a predominant culture in modern Indonesia with thorny issues like religious extremism and repression of freedom, by a lightness that the news cannot afford. Nineteen stories show a widely multifaceted face of Islamic culture without demonization, but showing the dynamics between modernity and traditions, between radicalisms and freedom. The stories expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction as they speak of religion and Muslim women like no one has ever done.
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HumourMay 2018Mothers Union Comic
The Whimsical Behaviour of Young Mothers
by Puty Puar
“Welcome to the jungle!” That’s what her friends told Puty when she had her first son. Sounds funny at first, but after going through the process, it is apparently pretty scary. Becoming a mother is a huge deal. It is actually the accumulation of daily struggles and achievements. Those daily stuffs are what she put into this book. Funny, yet so heartwarming and inspiring. Puty captures the moments of early motherhood with honest and entertaining pieces of comic.
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FictionOnly Human
by Mukhlis Nur
Five hundred years after the star war that resulted in the collapse of human civilization, the earth is inhabited by Automa; human with half robot form. In the presence of two Automas named Doctor and Yurika, a "human" is born and brings change to the new world. This is the story about human who turned into robots, a robot who learns to be human, and the last "human" to live among robots. • Winner of the Bronze Award at the 8th International Manga Award
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Children's & YAAugust 2019Kina Makes A New Friend
by Maudy Ayunda, Kathrin Honesta
"Hello, I am Kina and I have a best friend, Anya. We promise we'll always be together no matter what. One day, a new girl starts in school. Her name is Lulu. Day by day, Lulu starts stealing Anya from me. They laugh, eat, and play together. Anya has a new bestfriend, so we can't be bestfriends anymore, right? Does it mean that I lose my best friend?" Our world needs people who seek to understand, rather than assume without knowing. Here Kina learns to embrace change and not judge others.
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Children's & YAAugust 2018Kina and Her Fluffy Bunny
by Maudy Ayunda, Kathrin Honesta
"This is a story about me and my favorite toy, Fluffy Bunny. I love her and we always go everywhere together. One day, Fluffy Bunny gets stuck in my toy box. I try to save her, so I pull, and pull, and ... FLUFFF! Clouds start flying out of Fluffy Bunny. OMG, what should I do now?” Our world needs people with the mindset of fixing, not replacing. Here Kina learns to never give up on things she loves.
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FictionApril 2018The Goat and The Rain
by Mahfud Ikhwan
This modern Indonesian romance with Romeo and Juliet-ish vibes tells the love story of Miftahul Abrar and Nurul Fauzia. They both were raised in Islamic family, but having the same faith doesn’t make it easy for them. The secrets between two different families from two different cultures revealed as they struggled to break the walls between them. It’s more than romance, it’s history and the imagery of indonesian society written in a such beautiful narrative.
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FictionOctober 2019The Seasons Go By
by Kurniawan Gunadi
How desperate you are to change your current life path? Even though you are aware, that it is unlikely to happen? From Indonesian bestseller author, Kurniawan Gunadi, comes a new prose which tackles about human insecurities. He addresses personal matters and common issues to help us understanding destiny and whichever plan the universe makes for us.
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FictionFebruary 2020The Painter
The Life of Raden Saleh
by Iksaka Banu, Kurnia Effendi
This is the story of Raden Saleh, the talented man behind the painting The Arrest of Prince Diponegoro. Some people see him as a traitor, some see him as a hero. Who is he, actually? Two authors traced back his life in 20 years research to find the answer which lead on to the birth of this book.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentFebruary 2020Love: The Moment of Silence
by Adjie Santosoputro
“True love can be felt only when we are silent without a voice.” We’re always wanting somebody to love us, but we often forget to love ourselves. We all have expectations, but we often forget on how we face the unexpected, to accept the reality in front of us. Through his conversation with Silence (Sunyi) from his experience practicing mindfulness as healing therapy, Adjie reminds us that love is actually about acceptance at the moment. This life is journey to learn on how to let go of our desire. This mindset of acceptance is a guide on how to be happy in every steps in our journey of life.
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Family & healthApril 2019Islamic Montessori: Inspired Activity
Montessori Activities for Moslem Households
by Zahra Zahira
Montessori is probably the most well known parenting method right now. However, some family still have tradition and values that goes through generation that cannot be found in the popular parenting method. This realization came to Zahra Zahira’s mind as she is working as Montessori practitioner who comes from moslem family. Thus, she made a lesson plan activity inspired by montessori philosophy and curriculum. This book will help moslem parents to apply montessori and introduce islamic values to their children at home, at the same time.
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FictionJanuary 2016Nawung
Mimosa of Java
by Galuh Larasati
"When we are born, our hand fingers tiedly folded, that mean we have a lot of dreams to achieve. When we die our hand lies open, that mean we could not hold anything we have anymore. Feel the joy at any moment of our life now, and remembering our life's destiny, 'Manunggaling kawula lan Gusti', it is the moment when our body and the Great Spirit within our inner self is blended." Nawung, mimosa of Java is the life journey of Javanese young woman inspired by the old Javanese poetic song called macapat, that tells about the circle of life based on Javanese philosophy. The story starts from the song Mas kumambang. It is the story when the baby Nawung is still in her mother's womb. The true love from parents would create the true essence of life of the coming baby. Song of Mijil is when the baby has born on earth. The role of parents is very important in this stage. The influence of her father's simple teaching through the story of wayang (traditional puppet stories), has brought her as a humble and honest Javanese girl. Song of Sinom. It is telling how the teenager Nawung found easy ways to study many things. She shows how she studied English, Japanese, playing guitar, singing, drawing, writing and more, without money. This is the stage when someone is curious and ambitious in learning anything in this life. The song of Asmaradana. It is about her beautiful platonic triangle love story and a moment of her broken heart. More Javanese songs in the story are telling about how she faces her good times and bad times in her life in reaching the most important goal in life according to the Javanese philosophy. It is Manunggaling kawula lan Gusti, when the body and the Great Spirit within her inner self blended. All of her life lessons and her effort to keep being good to other, to herself and her awareness of her life lead her to her goal in life. "Through this novel, we can learn and comprehend the Javanese philosophy in a personal way. Through the eyes of a child, the writter attempts at internalizing the Javanese wisdom, which she believes, is priceless and timeless. This novel is also a bold effort to open an intercultural dialogue to build civilization which is based on the grand values in Indonesia. Anies Baswedan, Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic Indonesia."
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOFFLINE Finding Yourself In The Age of Distractions
by Desi Anwar
This collection of reflections is to remind us of some of the things we can turn our distracted minds to, when we can direct our attention to what are in front of us, above us, and more importantly, within us, using all the senses that we were all born with. They are a rediscovery of some of the things we have forgotten how to do or have put aside in favour of our all consuming electronic toys, and an attempt to help us reconnect once more with our senses and our natural gifts.So, why not put your smart phones, tablets, games, gadgets and anything with a screen, down for a few minutes. Take a deep breath and look up. Because at the end of the day, it is not just any journey we are making, but a journey to discover and appreciate who we are and what makes us human.
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The Book of Mating
by Laksmi Pamuntjak
The Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2020 Kitab Kawin (The Book of Mating) offers a more versatile interpretation on women in relationships. It depicts a cruel and tender world not only where desire, longing, and modern perversity go side by side, but also where the realities of women’s lives often include the violence visited upon their bodies. In the twelve stories that make up this collection, we meet women as diverse in experience as they are in age and occupation: former child brides living together in a Korean restaurant-cum-presumed brothel; a pair of middle-aged artists bickering at the funeral of their famous former lover; and a ghost telling the story of her own grisly murder. The women in these stories are brave and fulnerable, malleable and intractable, raw and calculated, healthy and hurt. They yearn, trust, desire and love. They fear, waver, doubt, and hate. They fight, defy, fail and triumph. Though the stories’ contemplation is bound up in sex, power, pleasure, pain, guilt, and often debilitating sense of duty, the true events of Kitab Kawin are the unending quest for selfknowledge: what holds the solitary self together and what blows it apart, what makes a woman and what undoes her, how to make peace with one’s past and present selves.
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The Architecture of Love
by Ika Natassa
Every person has at least one secret that will break your heart. For some, it might be their past. For some others, it might be their reasons. And for Raia and River in The Architecture of Love, it was both. Raia, an Indonesian bestselling author, could no longer write a single sentence after her muse, her husband, left her. In despair, she fled to New York, hoping that the city often sees as beacon of hope could be the place where she can rebuild herself as writer and as woman. River, a talented architect, fled to New York for the noise. The chaos of the city was the only thing that would cover up the noise of the last three years that always haunted him. The voices echoing in his head calling him a murderer, the killer of his own wife. A chance encounter at a New Year's Eve party led to an unusual friendship between them, as they stroll around the city every day, bonded by loneliness, evermore confined by their secrets, until their hearts start wanting for more only to find that the past could never let them go. Through The Architecture of Love, a tale of two strangers and two broken souls in search for answers, Ika Natassa offers a genuine look into the urban society of Indonesia.
