Kisah kehidupan keluarga March yang mempunyai empat orang putri, tinggal di daerah Concord, Amerika Serikat pada abad ke-19. Meg yang cantik, Jo yang tomboi, Beth yang rapuh, dan Amy yang artistik. Bersama Laurie, pemuda tetangga yang menjadi teman mereka sejak kecil, keempat gadis ini berusaha meraih impian masing-masing di tengah kondisi keluarga yang berat dan tengah ditinggal sang ayah yang harus ikut berperang.

Dalam novel ini, Louisa May Alcott menciptakan empat sosok perempuan yang paling dicintai dalam sastra Amerika. Mereka adalah Meg yang cantik dan tertib, Jo yang penuh semangat dan susah diatur, Beth yang pendiam dan baik hati, serta si bungsu Amy yang berdarah seni dan kekanak-kanakan. Keempat dara ini tinggal bersama ibu mereka, sementara sang bapak bertempur dalam perang saudara. "Novel yang berlatar New England abad ke-19 ini menjadi buku laris selama puluhan tahun. Selain itu, sejak terbit pertama kali pada 1868 hingga sekarang, buku ini tetap dibaca dan dikagumi banyak orang dari generasi ke generasi. Oleh karenanya, tidak mengherankan jika Little Women telah 14 kali diadaptasi ke dalam film. Diterbitkan oleh penerbit Serambi Ilmu Semesta" (Serambi Group) #MerayakanKartiniSerambi #PromoEbookHariKartini

Creepy boyfriends! Scarlett fever! Poverty! Writer Grady Hendrix (Satan Loves You) and cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey (Action Philosophers) translate Louisa May Alcott's 185,644 word required reading perennial Little Women into a snappy comic strip collection you can read at your locker in-between lunch and 3rd period English!

Such is the voice of Shan Sa's unforgettable heroine in her latest literary masterpiece, Empress. Empress Wu, one of China's most controversial figures, was its first and only female emperor, who emerged in the seventh century during the great Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. Throughout history, her name has been defamed and her story distorted by those taking vengeance on a woman who dared to become emperor. But now, for the first time in thirteen centuries, Empress Wu (or Heavenlight, as we come to know her) flings open the gates of the Forbidden City and tells her own astonishing tale—revealing a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day. Writing with epic assurance, poetry, and vivid historic detail, Shan Sa plumbs the psychological and philosophical depths of what it means to be a striving mortal in a tumultuous, power-hungry world. Empress is a great literary feat and a revelation for the ages.

Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects, in which women figured prominently at the time: Indonesian labour, Indonesian servants in colonial homes, Dutch colonial fashion and food, the feminist struggle for the vote and the intense debate about monogamy of and by women at the end of the 1930s. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to debates about Orientalism, the construction of whiteness, and to questions of modernity and the colonial state formation.

If it weren't for her best friends, Zoey and Maya, Addy Hart would be a prudish, uptight Barbie doll. Thankfully, through love and persistence, they've helped introduce her to her wild side. Unfortunately, even her wild side doesn't have the courage to go after the one thing she wants more than life itself. Dr. Greyson McDaniel has resisted his lovely teaching assistant for three years, now. He has no intentions of endangering his job or her reputation. But as spring break approaches, he's seized with a wicked impulse. He invites her to his mountain retreat for a week. Just one week of intense escape. What they both discover after their affair is that a week isn't nearly enough. But as much as they long to be together, there are obstacles in their way, and the ethics of student-teacher relationships are the least of their problems. When she realizes how deeply rooted Grey's commitment issues are, Addy begins to despair of ever having a happy ending with him. But Addy's love might be just what's needed to free him of his past.