Novel Bahasa Inggris - Exciting Themes

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Penulis: Stephen King

Tahun: 2011

Penerbit: Scribner

Genre: Science-Fiction

Tema: Time Traveler

(Penyelamatan Presiden John F. Kennedy)

Penghargaan:

World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012)

ITW Thriller Award for Best Hard Cover Novel (2012)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2014)

Kono Mystery ga Sugoi for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2014)

Japan Booksellers' Award 本屋大賞 Nominee for Translated Fiction (2014)

Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction (2011)

Overview:

Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake was blown away…but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How?

By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke… Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten…and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.

Made You Up
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Penulis: Francesca Zappia
Tahun: 2015
Penerbit: Greenwillow Books
Genre: Psychology
Tema: Mental Illness (Schizophrenia)




Penghargaan:
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author, and for Young Adult Fiction (2015)

Inky Awards Longlist (2016)

Overview:

Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. 

Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn’t she imagine him?

Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal. 

The Art of Being Normal

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Penulis: Lisa Williamson

Tahun: 2015

Penerbit: David Fickling Books

Genre: LGBT
Tema: Gay and Transgender




Penghargaan:
North East Teenage Book Award (2016)
YA Book Prize Nominee (2016)
Leeds Book Awards for 14-16 (2016)

Overview:

Two boys. Two secrets.

David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he’s gay. The school bully thinks he’s a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth – David wants to be a girl.

On the first day at his new school, Leo Denton has one goal – to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year eleven is definitely not part of that plan.

When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long…

Letters to The Lost

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Penulis: Iona Grey

Tahun: 2015

Penerbit: Simon & Shuster

Genre: Romance
Tema: Historical Romance/Finding True Love




Penghargaan:

Romantic Novel of the Year (RoNa's) Award (2016)

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2015)

Overview:

1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London...

Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski meet by chance and fall in love by accident. Theirs is a reluctant, unstoppable affair in which all the odds are stacked against them: she is newly married, and he is an American bomber pilot whose chance of survival is just one in five...

He promised to love her forever

 Sixty years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, and sends a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone, and the letter is opened by Jess, a young girl hiding from problems of her own. And as Jess reads Dan's words, she is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright and dimmed too soon. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?

Now forever is finally running out.

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