Horizon Cinta

ZARIZ seorang pelaut yang cintakan kedamaian dan ketenangan. Hidupnya yang dikelilingi lautan luas menjadikan dirinya sepi. Temannya hanyalah pukulan ombak dan desiran angin. Cuma sesekali kicauan camar laut hadir menghidupkan hari-harinya. Bibirnya jarang mengucapkan kata-kata, hanya telinganya tekun mendengar dan mata yang rajin menilik. Berbeza dengan Zara, seorang gadis yang lincah dan pandai berkata-kata, sesuai dengan kerjaya yang menuntutnya bertemu orang ramai. Pesonanya menjadikan Zara cukup mudah didekati. Cuma ada ketika, sikapnya yang terlalu peramah menyusahkan orang lain. Zara senang dikerumuni, diminati dan gemar berada di antara kelompok manusia lain.

BERADA dalam pelukan suami, serasa dunia ini telah dimiliki. Itu yang dirasakan Jasmin sepanjang hidup bersama Farid. Namun, dunianya bergoncang dengan kehadiran Azura sebagai isteri kedua. Ke rana sakit hati suami menduakan kasih, dia bertindak ‘menunduk kan’ Farid supaya tidak lupa jalan pulang. Tempias orang ketiga turut dirasai Intan Fariha, seorang wartawan majalah. Setiap hari dia melihat deraian air mata isteri-isteri yang dimadukan. Namun, dia sendiri terseksa kerana berkongsi kasih suami dengan dua wanita lain. Badai dan gelora yang melanda di hati hanya dia yang tahu. Terbukti, kata-kata di hujung penanya tentang poligami tidak semudah yang dilakarkan. Manis pada insan lain, tapi tidak di pihaknya... Sanggupkah Intan Fariha membiarkan dirinya terus terluka sedangkan kebahagiaan itu boleh dimiliki tanpa lelaki bernama suami? Keputusan di tangannya. Atau tunggu saja bila akhirnya ijab kabul yang terpateri berkecai dengan lafaz talak!

During her two-year tenure as Santa Fe’s Poet Laureate, award-winning poet Valerie Martínez appeared at over 50 public events—in schools, museums, cafés, galleries; in public parks and local banks and libraries; for children, youth, adults, and families. While traversing the city, she wrote about it—occasional poems, meditations, narratives, lyric poems that capture the present and past of the capital city and its people, all collected here, in this volume. The title poem imagines the creation of the land and its people and unfolds forward to the present. “Blue Winding, Blue Way” watches the Santa Fe River as it threads through the city. “History, Apology” tries to grapple with complex issues of history and race, and “Days Like This” captures the whimsy and resonance of the annual Pet Parade. There is a poem for everyone in this book, and those who love Santa Fe (residents and visitors, alike) will trace the city’s streets as they read, find themselves at familiar street corners and buildings, and navigate the historical, cultural and social issues that lie at the center of community life. Drawings by Linda Swanson (whose work is in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum and The Newark Museum) accompany the poems and capture the tenderness and beauty of families. VALERIE MARTINEZ is the author of four books of poetry and one book of translations (selected poems of Uruguay’s Delmira Agustini). Her poems have appeared widely in journals, anthologies and magazines. She was the Poet Laureate for the City of Santa Fe from March 2008 to March 2010.

Dunia huru-hara. Sejarah dan kegemilangan tamadun manusia sudah musnah ditelan zaman. Bumi jadi tandus, dihujani asid. Jembalang Bertulang Besi bermaharajalela. Manusia diserang, dibunuh dan diselubungi kerakusan. Rague gagah menumpaskan jembalang-jembalang itu. Askar upahan bermata helang itu mahu membalas dendam atas kematian datuknya. Mengenali Jafni telah menemukan dia dengan misteri silam yang mengundang peristiwa Malapetaka Maha. Segalanya bermula apabila ASAIN, sebuah mandroid menyerupai manusia dicipta. Mencetuskan pergolakan antara manusia - robot yang mengakibatkan kemusnahan bumi yang nyata.

An “intricately plotted” space opera “ups the already sky-high stakes,” of this sci-fi series and fans “will not be disappointed” (Publishers Weekly). The Universe is nursing a morning-after hangover. That’s how ex-freedom-fighter Lem Benzaran feels. Exiled after going AWOL to save her world, she lives in a changed galaxy in the aftermath of a purge that wiped entire planets clean of people like herself. A vague prophecy plagues her isolation: she’s destined to cause the Universe’s heat death. Jei Bereens is one of Lem’s only contacts with her old life. Once his command team’s golden boy, Jei’s now under constant surveillance as a distrusted super-weapon. Worse, amidst waves of withdrawal from his lost love’s nerve pheromone, Jei’s struggling to break free of the childhood rival who’s learned to use that vulnerability to trap him in his mind. That rival, Jared Diebol, now holds almost every card he needs to take full control of the forces bent on homogenizing the galaxy. Driven to desperation by Lem and Jei, Diebol’s created a mind-control device that may finally turn Jei into the world-destroying machine he needs to end this war. If Lem tries to stop him, Diebol vows to kill her at Jei’s hand. Between Jei’s struggle for freedom, Lem’s desperation to escape her destiny, and Diebol’s hunt for control—someone has to give, and someone has to die.

Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, Chicago Review of Books and Amazon From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen’s eyes to the realities of growing up in today’s world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey that will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him. Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.

Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica comprises the second and third volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002), Bowditch Professor of Mexican and Central American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Volumes Two and Three, with more than 700 illustrations, contain archaeological syntheses, followed by special articles on settlement patterns, architecture, funerary practices, ceramics, artifacts, sculpture, painting, figurines, jades, textiles, minor arts, calendars, hieroglyphic writing, and native societies at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Guatemala highlands, the southern Maya lowlands, the Pacific coast of Guatemala, Chiapas, the upper Grijalva basin, southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oaxaca. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.