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In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

2011-06-27T23:11:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife.

In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.

Now Jo has everything she's ever wanted: a veterinary practice she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself and wonders what happened to the freedom she once felt, or how she came to be the wife, mother, and doctor her neighbors know and trust--if at times she feels as if her whole life is vanishing behind her as she's living it--she need only look at her daughters or her husband, Daniel, to recall the satisfactions of family and community and marriage.

But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel: seduced again by the enticing possibility of another self and another life, she begins a dangerous flirtation that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves.

While I Was Gone is an exquisitely suspenseful novel about how quickly and casually a marriage can be destroyed, how a good wife can find herself placing all she holds dear at risk. In expert strokes, Sue Miller captures the precariousness of even the strongest ties, the ease with which we abandon each other, and our need to be forgiven. An extraordinary book, her best, from a beloved American writer.

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

2011-06-27T23:10:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.

Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge in an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

2011-06-27T23:08:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Sticker mark on front cover, otherwise good

Recognition: National Bestseller, Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM15

The bestselling author of Turtle Moon and Practical Magic tells her most seductive and mesmerizing tale yet--the story of March Murray, who returns to her small Massachusetts hometown after nineteen years, encountering her childhood sweetheart...and discovering the heartbreaking and complex truth about their reckless and romantic love.

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

2011-06-27T23:07:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Frayed sleeve cover, slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM20

Irene Beltran, the unconventional daughter of a wealthy family, and Francisco Leal, son of Spanish exiles, are reporter and photographer for a women's magazine in an unnamed Latin American dictatorship. They stumble onto a mass grave where the bodies of people tortured and murdered by the police have been dumped. As their love grows in the shadow of death, Irene and Francisco struggle to bring the men responsible to justice. They win a qualified victory when public outcry and international condemnation, sparked by photographs and tape recordings smuggled out of the country, force the authorities to allow a trial and conviction. But the lovers must flee the continent to avoid reprisals from an enraged government that has no intention of truly altering its policies.

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

2011-06-27T23:05:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: National Book Award Winner, National Bestseller
Price: RM15

In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

2011-06-27T23:04:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front and back cover, slightly yellowed pages, sticker mark/tear on back cover

Recognition: Oprah's Book Club, New York Times Bestseller
Price: RM15

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence by Peter Mayle

2011-06-27T23:01:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front and back cover, slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

Having delighted millions of Americans with A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle treats us to a wonderfully entertaining novel of escape, romance and adventure. played in the landscape he has made so irresistible.

Simon Shaw, a forty-two-year-old advertising tycoon, worn down by insatiable clients and a rapacious ex-wife, wants to get away from it all. On impulse he drives to the south of France. When an accident leaves him stranded in a small village in the Luberon, an enchanting Frenchwoman, who is between husbands, comes to his rescue and soon lures him into buying the local gendarmerie. Together they transform it into a little jewel of a hotel. And life seems idyllic.

But at the same time, a crook, recently released from the Marseilles prison, is plotting to rob the bank in the nearby town. Paths cross. schemes go awry -- and through it all Peter Mayle delights us with the intrigues of the haut monde that descends on the Hotel Pastis and the machinations of the bad guys, as everything conspires to threaten the heaven on earth that Simon Shaw has envisioned.

A Trip To The Stars by Nicholas Christopher

2011-06-27T22:59:00.001+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Sticker mark on front cover, otherwise good
Price: RM15

At a Manhattan planetarium in 1965, ten-year-old Enzo and his young aunt, Mala, are separated, an event that profoundly alters the rest of their lives. In an epic tale of love and destiny, A Trip to the Stars charts their paths over the next fifteen years as they search for each other and, in the process, discover themselves.

As Enzo and Mala cross continents and seas on their separate journeys, they encounter a dizzying array of people: an arachnologist in New Orleans, an asteroid specialist, a wounded B-52 navigator in Vietnam, a professional mind reader, a maverick NASA astronomer, and countless others. All of them are searching for things they have lost -- loved ones, opportunities, enlightenment. Through them Mala and Enzo discover a world steeped in mystery, romance, and intellectual adventure.

A Trip to the Stars is both a love story and a coming-of-age story that shows us what happens when we lose what matters most. Fusing imagination and suspense with remarkable narrative skill, Nicholas Christopher builds a story of tremendous scope that lingers in detail and sensation long after the last page has been turned.

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

2011-06-27T22:55:00.003+08:00

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No writer captures the seasons of our lives better than Judy Blume. Now, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wifey and Smart Women, comes an extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening--an unforgettable story of two women, two families, and the friendships that shape a lifetime.

When Victoria Leonard answers the phone in her Manhattan office, Caitlin's voice catches her by surprise. Vix hasn't talked to her oldest friend in months. Caitlin's news takes her breath away--and Vix is transported back in time, back to the moment she and Caitlin Somers first met, back to the casual betrayals and whispered confessions of their long, complicated friendship, back to the magical island where two friends became summer sisters.

Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the heart of the unruly Somers family, into a world of privilege, adventure, and sexual daring. Vix's bond with her summer family forever reshapes her ties to her own, opening doors to opportunities she had never imagined--until the summer she falls passionately in love. Then, in one shattering moment on a moonswept Vineyard beach, everything changes, exposing a dark undercurrent in her extraordinary friendship with Caitlin that will haunt them through the years.

As their story carries us from Santa Fe to Martha's Vineyard, from New York to Venice, we come to know the men and women who shape their lives. And as we follow the two women on the paths they each choose, we wait for the inevitable reckoning to be made in the fine spaces between friendship and betrayal, between love and freedom.

A Gathering of Angels by Katherine Valentine

2011-06-27T22:53:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

In A Miracle for St. Cecilia’s, Katherine Valentine created a charming Connecticut town where ordinary people experience extraordinary things. Now in A Gathering of Angels the citizens of Dorsetville continue to discover the daily wonders of faith.

While Father Flaherty toys with taking up kickboxing to trim his growing waistline, another town expansion proves more ominous: Barry Hornibrook, driven to build a riverfront hotel, turns to questionable sources for desperately needed money. But this is Dorsetville, where anything is possible—and by the time this beguiling tale is over, a tragic fire, a German shepherd, and an influx of dentists will all play a role in changing the community forever.

Full of delightful surprises, A Gathering of Angels proves to be another heart- warming tale of hope.

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

2011-06-27T22:51:00.001+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good

Recognition: National Book Award Winner and National Bestseller
Price: RM15

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.

A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, The Shipping News shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.

Babycakes (Tales of the City Series, Volume 4) by Armistead Maupin

2011-06-27T22:48:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

Further Tales of the City (Volume 3) by Armistead Maupin

2011-06-27T22:46:00.000+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, price sticker mark/tear on back cover
Price: RM15

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in San Francisco park.

Tales of the City (Volume 1) by Armistead Maupin

2011-06-27T22:43:00.009+08:00

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Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

2011-05-30T15:21:00.001+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

Greeted as "an amazement of riches . . . few readers will be able to resist" by The New York Times, Chocolat is an enchanting novel about temptation, pleasure, and the ultimate folly of self-denial. The town of Lansquenet, solemnly preparing for Lent, is set astir when Vianne Rocher and her spirited daughter arrive on the heels of the carnival and open a chocolate shop across the square from the church. Vianne's uncanny ability to perceive her customers' private discontents and alleviate them with just the right chocolate treats quickly charms the villagers--and enrages Pere Reynaud, the conservative local priest. Certain that only a witch could create such magical cures, Reynaud vows to block the chocolate festival Vianne plans for Easter Sunday and to run her out of town forever. Witch or not (she'll never tell), Vianne soon sparks a dramatic confrontation between those who prefer the cold comforts of the church and those who revel in their newly discovered taste for pleasure.

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

2011-05-30T15:16:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Harcover
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Recognition: Oprah's Book Club
Price: RM20

Oprah Book Club- Selection, March 1999: With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all.

A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon

2011-05-30T15:14:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue.

In A Noble Radiance a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.

French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano

2011-05-30T15:11:00.004+08:00

Category: Non-Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM25

By letter, e-mail, and in person, readers of Mireille Guiliano’s phenomenal best seller, French Women Don’t Get Fat, have inundated her with requests for more of her cunning but simple secrets to living the good life, the ways French women manage to enjoy wine, chocolate, and many other seductive pleasures without gaining weight. Mireille’s answer? This buoyant book brimming with fresh advice and seasonal stories—on food bien sûr (more than 100 delicious new recipes) but also on many other aspects of living that should bring us pleasure, such as picking a wine, dressing well, even arranging flowers.

French women not only stay slim while relishing life to the fullest, they also have the longest life expectancy in the Western world. And now Mireille shows us how they attune themselves to the rhythms of the year. Together with a bounty of new dining ideas and menus, she offers us a treasury of tips on style, grooming, and entertaining, all designed to focus the mind on sensory pleasure for maximum enjoyment. Here are four seasons’ worth of strategies for shopping, cooking, and exercising, as well as some pointers for looking effortlessly chic. Whether your aim is finding two scoopfuls of pleasure in one of crème brûlée or entertaining beautifully when time is short and expectations are high, the inspiration you need is here. Taking us from her childhood in Alsace-Lorraine to her summers in Provence and her busy life in New York and Paris, this book of scrumptious Gallic wisdom and wit shows how anyone anywhere can develop a healthy, holistic lifestyle.

In the voice that entranced more than a million honorary French women, Mireille demonstrates that there is indeed an art to joyful living, and that equilibrium—being bien dans sa peau and true to one’s individual nature—is the key to a long and healthy life. Full of sage, irresistible advice on everything from decanting to detoxing, from yogurt to yoga, French Women for All Seasons is an essential guide to savoring all life’s moments—in moderation, in season, and, above all, with pleasure.

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

2011-05-30T15:08:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM10

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

2011-05-30T15:05:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM15

Early responses to Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, were mixed. Some held the book to be anti-Christian, others were disturbed by a heroine so proud, self-willed, and essentially unfeminine. The modern reader may well have trouble understanding what all the fuss was about. On the surface a fairly conventional Gothic romance (poor orphan governess is hired by rich, brooding Byronic hero-type), Jane Eyre hardly seems the stuff from which revolutions are made. But the story is very much about the nature of human freedom and equality, and if Jane was seen as something of a renegade in nineteenth-century England, it is because her story is that of a woman who struggles for self-definition and determination in a society that too often denies her that right. But self-determination does not mean untrammeled freedom for men or women. Rochester, that thorny masculine beast whom Jane eventually falls for, is a man who sets his own laws and manipulates the lives of those around him; before he can enter into a marriage of equals with Jane he must undergo a spiritual transformation. Should the lesson sound dry, it's not. Jane Eyre is full of drama: fires, storms, attempted murder, and a mad wife conveniently stashed away in the attic. This is very sexy stuff - another reason Victorian critics weren't quite sure what to make of it.

Emma by Jane Austen

2011-05-30T15:03:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM15

Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, and thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has "lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her."

Jane Austen exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly trivial events with profound moral significance as Emma traverses a gentle satire of provincial balls and drawing rooms, along the way encountering the sweet Harriet Smith, the chatty and tedious Miss Bates, and her absurd father Mr. Woodhouse–a memorable gallery of Austen's finest personages. Thinking herself impervious to romance of any kind, Emma tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for poor Harriet, but refuses to recognize her own feelings for the gallant Mr. Knightley. What ensues is a delightful series of scheming escapades in which every social machination and bit of "tittle-tattle" is steeped in Austen's delicious irony. Ultimately, Emma discovers that "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."

Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen "the most perfect artist among women," and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom "no one but myself will much like," Emma is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners.

Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera

2011-05-30T15:00:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

The author intially intended to call this noel, The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes scarosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.

Ignorance by Milan Kundera

2011-05-30T14:58:00.001+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

2011-05-30T14:56:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart

2011-05-30T14:51:00.004+08:00

Category: Non-Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold lines on spine, otherwise good
Price: RM15

Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo ...nor watched his baby daughter Chloe grow and thrive there ...nor written this book. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. "Driving Over Lemons" is a book book that makes running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly good move. Chris transports us to Las Alpujarras, an oddball region south of Granada, and into a series of misadventures with an engaging mix of peasant farmers and shepherds, New Age travellers and ex-pats. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm that he and Ana bought, El Valero - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, and with no access road, water supply or electricity.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2011-05-30T14:48:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages otherwise good
Price: RM20

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

2011-05-30T14:45:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages otherwise good
Price: RM15

Starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser, The Quiet American is already gaining incredible buzz -- including a Golden Globe nomination for Caine (Best Actor, Drama). This enchanting film is directed by Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence; The Bone Collector; Clear and Present Danger) and is adapted from one of Graham Greene’s best-loved novels. Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious “Third Force.” As his naïve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love.

Incendiary by Chris Cleave

2011-05-30T14:42:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Yellowed pages otherwise good
Price: RM10

When a massive suicide bomb explodes at a London soccer match a woman loses both her four-year-old son and her husband. But the bombing is only the beginning. In a voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, Incendiary is a stunning debut of one ordinary life blown apart by terror.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

2011-05-30T14:35:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, Price sticker mark on front cover otherwise good
Price: RM15

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during China’s infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.

Jewel by Bret Lott

2011-05-30T14:31:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Yellowed pages, Fold marks on front cover, Fold lines on spine.
Price: RM10

In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.

Why Do Cats Wear Pajamas? Fascinating Facts About Our Feline Friends by Karen Brown

2011-05-30T14:25:00.005+08:00

Category: Facts
Type: Hardcover
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM20

A fascinating book filled with cat lore, world records, and famous cats, Why Do Cats Wear Pajamas? is illustrated with delightful drawings painstakingly executed by Karen Brown. This little book makes the perfect gift for anyone who loves a feline. Karen Brown's most recent book, Fairy Kisses And Stork Bites: Amazing, Adorable Facts About Babies, is a favorite among new parents and those who know them. Now the writer-illustrator has put her talent to work on Why Do Cats Wear Pajamas?, a collection of intriguing information, enticing trivia, and sizzling statistics about one of America's favorite pets. Why Do Cats Wear Pajamas? should become a bestseller among the millions who favor felines. Who was the most expensive cat in the world? Why do cats purr? Which cat caught the most mice? Presented in an engaging question-answer format, Why Do Cats Wear Pajamas? is an easy-to-read book with immense appeal.

Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

2011-05-30T14:19:00.006+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM15

Willy Chandra - whom we first met in Half a Life - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister - and his own listlessness - and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. But seven years of revolutionary campaigns and several years in jail convince him that the revolution "had nothing to do with the village people we said we were fighting for," and he feels himself further than ever "from his own history and...from the ideas of himself that might have come to him with that history." When he returns to England where, 30 years before, his psychological and physical wanderings began, he finds the fruit of another unexpected social revolution (more magic seeds), and he comes to see himself as a man "serving an endless prison sentence" - a revelation that may finally release him into his true self.

NEW BOOKS!

2011-03-18T01:37:00.001+08:00

Coming Soon.

Hello, it's been a while.

2011-02-08T01:02:00.005+08:00

After months of silence. Here I am to say hello.

I miss Booksybooks. But I've been kept away from her for so long and for so many reasons. Work is one. It took away time. Time to sit, think, read, hunt, ...for books. My priorities too, changed. I reserved more time for loved ones, above anything else.

However, I would love to balance this back into my life, because I miss. I miss the tiredness of loading boxes of books into my Kelisa, pushing the trolley, setting up the booths, going through the list of books, counting change, sitting, waiting, chatting, making as much sum of money as a little book business can possibly make. And feeling good about it.

I'm browsing for flea-markets to hop into. I'm excited.

Will keep you posted.

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

2010-08-03T13:04:00.010+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages
Price: RM15

Danny is a pasaino, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possesision, so that when he suddenly inherits two houses, Danny is quick to offer shelter to his fellow gentlemen of the road. Their love for freedom and scorn for material things draw them into daring and often hilarious adventures. Until Danny, tiring of his new responsibilities, suddenly disappears...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

2010-08-03T12:29:00.006+08:00

Category: Fiction - Mystery
Type: Paperback
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM15

It's the beginning of a lazy summer in 1950 at the sleepy English village of Bishop's Lacey. Up at the great house of Buckshaw, aspiring chemist Flavia de Luce passes the time tinkering in the laboratory she's inherited from her deceased mother and an eccentric great uncle. When Flavia discovers a murdered stranger in the cucumber patch outside her bedroom window early one morning, she decides to leave aside her flasks and Bunsen burners to solve the crime herself, much to the chagrin of the local authorities. But who can blame her? What else does an eleven-year-old science prodigy have to do when left to her own devices? With her widowed father and two older sisters far too preoccupied with their own pursuits and passions—stamp collecting, adventure novels, and boys respectively—Flavia takes off on her trusty bicycle Gladys to catch a murderer.

Yasmin Ahmad's Films

2009-12-08T19:30:00.008+08:00

Yasmin Ahmad's Films by Amir Muhammad
Date of purchase: 4th December 2009
Place: Borders Bookstore, The Curve

I discovered this book by chance (it's the best way of finding a good read.. without expecting it) while browsing the store. I had no idea of the writing or publishing of this book. So seeing it displayed on the shelf was a pleasant surprise. The book easily drew me in because 1. I've always wanted to read Mr. Amir Muhammad's work (as we've shared tents a couple of times selling books.. Hi Mr. Amir, I don't know if you remember me) 2. I love the humanity in Yasmin Ahmad's movies, and I have only seen a couple of them, so this will be a good chance of seeing through reading, and 3. at the back of the book it says 'All the writer's royalties from the first edition will be donated to the MERCY -Yasmin Ahmad Fund for Children.' This is the first edition, published in November 2009. I love charities, so I was hooked.

The book gives us an insight of 6 of Yasmin Ahmad's movies, Rabun, Sepet, Gubra, Mukhsin, Muallaf, Talentime, twelve of her commercials and 2 internet shorts. It basically highlights the hidden meanings behind the words, scenes and symbols she uses in her work. I am neither a good writer nor a qualified reviewer, so I think I shall not go on trying to evaluate so much. I just wanted to share and highlight the existence of this book (not that I think it needs any assistance in making itself known). I just thought sharing is caring. So there you go. The next time you enter a bookstore, look for it.

I'm still reading the book. After completing it, I think I'm gonna go out there and look for her movies. Stay home, watch them, and drown myself in the thought of us losing such a great talent. Malaysia does need more Yasmin Ahmads. I hope the future brings in more people like her. People who are not afraid to show they have big hearts.

As an end note, I'd like to share a line Mr Amir Muhammad wrote in this book, '..God will never give us more than we can handle.' I heard the same phrase spoken to me just a few weeks back by my best friend. When I read it, the words just spoke out to me and I wanted to share it. I'm not sure what it'll mean to you. But it means a great deal to me.

Thanks for your time reading...

Codex by Lev Grossman

2009-12-08T19:03:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to solve the mystery of the codex-to understand its significance to his wealthy clients, and to decipher the seeming parallels between the legend of the codex and an obsessive role-playing computer game that has absorbed him in the dark hours of the night.

Cool for Cats by Jessica Adams

2009-12-08T17:19:00.004+08:00

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It's 1979 and Linda Tyler is the assistant cook at her local Chinese restaurant, engaged to a bank clerk in a small town called Withingdean, when she answers an ad in a music paper. Suddenly, she gets the job that everyone else in England wants. Within days she leaves behind her predictable existence, along with her fiance, and moves to London, starting work on NWW, a punk and new wave music magazine. Before too long, records by Blondie, Squeeze and The Clash are landing on her desk, and she's on the guest list for every concert in town. After that, the challenge for Linda is discovering who and what she loves most - her freedom, or the Australian photographer who's just walked into her life? When she finally works out the answer, though, she will also have to make the most important decision of her life.

The Ring by Danielle Steel

2009-12-08T17:16:00.001+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold lines on spine, browned pages
Price: RM5

In Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them. Separated from her family, and unable to escape Germany, Ariana is finally arrested. A young Nazi officer offers her survival and hope for the future. Tragedy and a sudden twist of fate carries Ariana to America, to a chilling deception, and a new life of unfamiliar terrors. Her past seemingly lost forever, her future uncertain, the ring she still clings to is all she has left of her father and brother. And in time it will become the bridge from her past to her future.

Scruples Two by Judith Krantz

2009-12-08T17:13:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold lines on spine, browned pages
Price: RM5

Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

2009-12-08T17:09:00.002+08:00

Category: Non-fiction/Travel
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of "A Year In Provence". Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomic delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life are conjured up in this enchanting portrait.

Perfect Strangers by Robyn Sisman

2009-12-01T21:12:00.003+08:00

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Suze Wilding and Lloyd Rockwell are perfect strangers. She lives in London, he lives in New York. They know nothing about each other - until one summer they exchange jobs and homes.

Suze is impetuous, impatient and NEVER wants to get married. Lloyd is complicated, cautious and contemplating marriage to eminently suitable Betsy. But when Suze discovers a plot at work to get rid of Lloyd, the two begin communicating long-distance - and they wonder what might happen if they ever met face to face...

Special Relationship by Robyn Sisman

2009-12-01T20:52:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

Renowned London literary agent Annie Hamilton never forgot Jordan Hope. And now he's back. As the saxophone-playing United States presidential hopeful, Jordan is a constant reminder to Annie of their whirlwind love affair during the heady days of Oxford in the 1960s and of the secret she's kept ever since.

Comfortably married with three wonderful children, Annie thinks her life is complete. But her son Tom, now twenty-one years old, discovers Annie's secret and his own shocking connection to it. In tumult, Tom flees to Manhattan to try to unravel the past and confront the man who might be his father, with no regard for Jordan's delicate political situation. Desperate to explain, Annie races after Tom…and straight into the arms of the man she thought she'd never see again.

Just Friends by Robyn Sisman

2009-12-01T20:46:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, sticker mark on back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Thirtysomethings Freya and Jack have been “just friends” for more than ten years. Of course, they’ve had their differences. Freya doesn’t approve of Jack’s taste for student teeny-boppers from Planet Bubblegum, and Jack has problems with Freya’s utter scorn for human frailty–especially his own.

So when Freya, dumped by her lawyer boyfriend, moves temporarily into Jack’s apartment, tensions simmer. They reach a boiling point when Jack agrees to act as Freya’s Significant Other at her step-sister’s society wedding. Now, old friends, best friends, just friends, are fighting like cats and dogs.

Gai-Jin by James Clavell

2009-11-25T16:56:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover otherwise good
Price: RM20

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell’s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan—an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.…

How to Walk in High Heels by Camilla Morton

2009-11-25T16:51:00.005+08:00

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The bestselling U.K. sensation, hailed as "the most fabulous instruction manual the world has ever seen" by Vogue.com

Can you make yourself up in five minutes flat? Make the first move without breaking a sweat? Hang a picture without becoming unhinged? Get out of a car -- or an unpleasant situation -- gracefully in a short skirt? Load an iPod as effortlessly as a dishwasher? If not, international style and fashion journalist Camilla Morton can help you navigate these and more than two hundred other hazards of modern living with grace and aplomb. Much more than just a style manual or crash course in social skills, How to Walk in High Heels also illuminates the finer points of achieving better homes and gardens, tackling technophobia, climbing the career ladder, and joining the jet set.

From the practical, such as what to do when a heel breaks and how to catch a mouse, to the imaginative, such as how to enjoy karaoke and swim in sunglasses, How to Walk in High Heels overflows with useful nuggets of advice delivered in the author's inimitable witty style, accompanied by a foreword from Dior's John Galliano and a Louis Vuitton trunkful of insight from experts including: -Manolo Blahnik on How to Pick a Shoe -Dolce & Gabbana on How to Get Ready in Five Minutes -Gisele Bundchen on How to Look Good in a Photo -Jade Jagger on How to Compile Your Own Soundtrack

This comprehensive do-everything-better bible takes the guesswork out of flaunting your fabulousness so that you can stop teetering and start striding confidently through the obstacle course of life.

Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

2009-11-25T16:48:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on back cover otherwise good
Price: RM15

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.

The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.

Heiresses by Lulu Taylor

2009-11-25T16:46:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

They were born to the scent of success. Now they stand to lose it all ...Fame, fashion and scandal, the Trevellyan heiresses are the height of success, glamour and style. But when it comes to ...WEALTH: Jemima's indulgent lifestyle knows no limits; Tara's one purpose in life, no matter the sacrifice, is to be financially independent of her family and husband; and Poppy wants to escape its trappings without losing the comfort their family money brings...LUST: Jemima's obsession relieves the boredom of her marriage; while Tara's seemingly 'perfect' life doesn't allow for such indulgences; and Poppy, spoiled by attention and love throughout her life, has yet to expose herself to the thrill of really living and loving dangerously...FAMILY: it's all they've ever known, and now the legacy of their parents, a vast and ailing perfume empire, has been left in their trust. But will they be able to turn their passion into profit? And in making a fresh start, can they face their family's past?

The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel

2009-11-25T16:44:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, Gamaliel survives the war. But in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting from Ilonka.

Gamaliel tries, unsuccessfully, to find a place for himself in Europe. After a failed marriage, he moves to New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Eventually he falls in with a group of exiles, including a rabbi––a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliel’s feelings of loss and dispossession. When Gamaliel is asked to help draw out an elderly, disfigured Hungarian woman who may be his beloved Ilonka, he begins to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he will reconcile with his past.

Good Bones by Margaret Atwood

2009-11-25T16:37:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood - delieciously strong and bittersweet.

The Museum Guard by Howard Norman

2009-11-25T16:27:00.005+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Small price sticker tear on back cover, slightly yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence of the museum with heated conversations that prove them to be "opposites at life." Away from the museum, DeFoe courts the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Everything changes when Imogen, inspired by the arrival of a painting, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam, abandons Halifax for the ennobled life she imagines for the painting's subject—even amid the growing perilousness of being a Jew in Amsterdam. Set against the impending events of World War II, The Museum Guard, the second book of his Canadian trilogy, explores the mysteries of identity and self-determination, and the desire to step out of the ordinary into an alluring and dangerous sphere of action.

Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham

2009-11-25T16:15:00.005+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM10

Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man

Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood

Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed.

In Cocktails for Three, Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

New Books!

2009-11-03T18:50:00.007+08:00

Hi guys.

Here are the freshly added books.. as promised!

Hardcover - hc
Paperback - pb

1. A Prison Diary by Jeffrey Archer - RM20 (hc)
2. Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer - RM10 (pb)
3. The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer - RM20 (hc)
4. Saving Faith by David Baldacci - RM20 (hc)
5. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - RM15 (pb)
6. Agatha Christie The Pocket Essential by Mark Campbell - RM15 (pb)
7. 24 Declassified: Operation Hell Gate by Mark Cerasini - RM15 (pb)
8. 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point by Mark Cerasini - RM15 (pb)
9. The Clocks by Agatha Christie - RM15 (pb)
10. Curtain by Agatha Christie - RM15 (pb)
11. The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie - RM15 (pb)
12. Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction by Michael Crick - RM25 (hc)
13. The Woman & the Ape by Peter Hoeg - RM10 (pb)
14. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - RM10 (pb)
15. The Cider House Rules by John Irving - RM10 (pb)
16. Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes - RM15 (pb)
17. Desperation by Stephen King - RM10 (pb)
18. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - RM15 (pb)
19. Shopgirl by Steve Martin - RM20 (hc)
20. How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto - RM20 (hc)
21. Black Horn by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
22. The Blue Ring by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
23. In the Name of the Father by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
24. Man on Fire by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
25. Message From Hell by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
26. Perfect Kill by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
27. Snap Shot by AJ Quinnell - RM10 (pb)
28. The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice - RM20 (hc)
29. The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi - RM20 (hc)
30. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender - RM10 (pb)
31. A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
32. Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
33. Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
34. Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
35. Morning, Noon & Night by Sidney Sheldon - RM5 (pb)
36. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks - RM10 (pb)
37. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan - RM25 (hc) Sold
38. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend - RM10 (pb)
39. Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler - RM25 (hc)
40. Reader's Digest: Select Editions 4 - RM20 (hc)
(Authors: Frederick Forsyth, Rosie Thomas, Michael Connelly, Jacqueline Winspear)
41. Reader's Digest: 4 Books by Frederick Forsyth - RM40 (hc)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

2009-11-02T15:35:00.007+08:00

Category: Fiction

Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding, an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.

In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes

2009-11-02T15:33:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Prada-wearing magazine editor Lisa Edwards thinks her life is over when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be a deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. No more jet-setting to the fall collections. No more fabulous parties and photographs in the society pages. The only saving grace is that her friends aren't there to witness her downward spiral. Might her new boss, the disheveled and moody Jack Devine, save her from a fate worse than hell?

Ashling Kennedy, Colleen's assistant editor, is an award-winning worrier, increasingly aware that something fundamental is missing from her life -- apart from a boyfriend and a waistline. And then there's her closest, oldest friend Clodagh "Princess" Kelly, who is apparently living the domestic dream in a suburban castle. So why, lately, has Clodagh had a recurring urge to kiss a frog -- sleep with a frog, if truth be told?

Set in the sparkling -- and serpentine -- world of women's fashion magazines, as well as the hilarious underground comedy club circuit, Sushi for Beginners is about searching for happiness. And how, if you let things bubble under the surface for too long, sooner or later they'll boil over. Sharp, funny, and sweet, Marian Keyes's latest novel confirms her place as the queen of contemporary fiction.

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

2009-11-02T15:29:00.006+08:00

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In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

2009-11-02T15:23:00.007+08:00

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Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary -- an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks. Monty Python, the Falklands campaign -- all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.

The Woman & the Ape by Peter Hoeg

2009-11-02T15:21:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

An hour after nightfall the ape rose, wrapped an arm around Madelene, parted the screen of leaves at a shadowed spot, and leaped, almost horizontally, into what seemed to Madelene to be a pitch-black void. Madelene Burden is a Danish beauty who lives in an alcoholic haze while her husband, Adam, a behavioral scientist, dreams of restoring the London Zoo to its original glory. Hes about to get his chance with Erasmus, a 300-pound gorilla unlike any other. But a spark ignites between Madelene and Erasmus and begins a love affair as emotionally and erotically charged as any male-female relationship can be and a revelation that stuns the world.

The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

2009-11-02T14:50:00.003+08:00

Category: Non-Fiction/Memoir
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, otherwise good
Price: RM10

After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers cling to their mother's brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then the family is rounded up, deported to Auschwitz, and separated. Now Rive is alone.

At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittelsteine and Grafenort, Rive vows to live, and to hope - for mama, for her brothers, for the millions of other victims of the nightmare of the Holocaust. And through determination and courage, and unexpected small acts of kindness, she does live - to write the unforgettable memoir that is a testament to the strenght of the human spirit.

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

2009-11-02T14:47:00.004+08:00

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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

2009-11-02T14:41:00.005+08:00

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For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back-almost as if by magic...

The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

2009-11-02T14:39:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

When a young secretary, Sheila Webb, is sent to the home of a blind woman on an errand, she is horrified to discover a dead man behind the couch, surrounded by four clocks that have all been stopped at 4:13. The owner arrives home and denies that the clocks belong to her, the deceased's business card turns out to be a fraud, and a woman shows up claiming to be the dead man's wife. There is only one man who can unravel this complicated case: Hercule Poirot.

Curtain: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

2009-11-02T14:36:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?!

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

2009-11-02T14:32:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Nine previously uncollected gems from the worlds most popular mystery writer have finally been incorporated into a stellar book of Agatha Christie short stories. Fans around the world will welcome the mysterious delights found in The Harlequin Tea Set as Christies famous detectives unravel the webs of intrigue spun by the most beloved mystery writer of all time. Agatha Christies works have been published in more languages than any other book except the Bible, and her worldwide legions of fans will delight in the release of this previously unpublished collection of stories.

The Pocket Essential: Agatha Christie by Mark Campbell

2009-11-02T14:19:00.002+08:00

Category: Non-Fiction/Guide
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. In this book, Mark Campbell provides an informed introduction to the Agatha Christie phenomenon, including a biography of the great author, in-depth profiles of 10 of her most popular characters, analyses of the stories, and a section on film, TV, and stage adaptations. Appendices include an exhaustive biography and an overview of the best Christie websites around.

Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer

2009-10-30T20:01:00.002+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and dog-eared cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is separated at birth by accident. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. Sons of Fortune is as much the story of the making of these two men—and how they eventually find each other—as it is the chronicle of a nation in transition.

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

2009-10-30T19:54:00.006+08:00

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There was a time when the world was sweeter...when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister...Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart -- and the joy and pain of living.

Desperation by Stephen King

2009-10-30T19:26:00.004+08:00

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24 Declassified: Operation Hell Gate by Marc Cerasini

2009-10-30T19:24:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages
Price: RM15

Within twenty-four hours a nightmare will be unleashed that could cause the death of untold millions and devastate a great nation. It's a plot being carried out by the unlikeliest of allies. A powerful mole within the deepest reaches of U.S. Intelligence has secretly conscripted the very criminals he's been charged with investigating -- former IRA terrorists, Latino and Asian gang members, Middle Eastern assassins and others -- creating one of the most insidious terrorist networks law enforcement has yet to take down.

One man stands between the destroyers and the death tide: Jack Bauer, lone wolf operative for America's brand-new elite Counter Terrorist Unit. But he's three thousand miles from the CTU command center without backup in a strange city, New York. He's been artfully set up and is being hunted by the FBI for the murder of two of its agents. And time's almost up . . .

24 Declassified: Vanishing Point by Marc Cerasini

2009-10-30T19:20:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Area 51: America's top-secret advanced military testing ground, hidden away in the Nevada desert, where the awesome weapons of tomorrow are being developed. But a mole inside the impregnable facility has been leaking highly advanced killing technology to America's worst enemies . . . who intend to turn its destructive power on an unsuspecting nation before the day is out.

Agent Jack Bauer has a mere twenty-four hours to derail a horrific plot, as a deadly endgame takes shape in the neon glare of nearby Las Vegas. But to do so, the rogue CTU operative will have to lead an impossible assault on Area 51 itself—and expose a lethal string of betrayal and corruption that leads from the terrorists to the underworld and all the way into the heart of the U.S. government.

Man on Fire by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T19:12:00.005+08:00

Book 1

Book 2

Two separate books.

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition:
Book 1; Wet mark on bottom front cover, slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Book 2; Yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10 (price for one book)

Creasy - a rugged, burned-out mercenary... When he takes the job as a bodyguard for the young daughter of an Italian industrialist he is awakened to new life by a beguiling human touch - until the unspeakable atrocity occurs... The child is kidnapped by violent terrorists and Creasy is thrown into a ferocious world of treachery and turmoil. Filled with a single-minded rage, he fights for their lives, whatever the cost - and is transformed, as never before, into the terrifying killing machine he was trained to be.

Snap Shot by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T19:07:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Among the dozen photographers from the world's press working in Vietnam, David Munger was outstanding. But why did he pack up, desert, vanish? No one knew. And what was his connection with the violence, vendettas and complex web of secrets that preceded the raid a decade later in distant Tammuz? Snap Shot is a story of murder and perversion, bribery and blackmail, and occasionally, of great love and courage. It is the story of a great photographer who descends into a nightmare, and of his struggle to climb back out.

In the Name of the Father by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T19:00:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

The Kremlin has decided to assassinate the Pope, and this time ensure an efficient job. In the Vatican, three Clerics learn of the threat and plan a pre-emptive strike. It becomes a game of poker between the KGB and the Vatican Secret Service. The single stake is the life of the Pope; or the Soviet President.

Not just faith against efficiency; but vengeance allied to finely honed skill. Can this combination breach the fortress Kremlin? Or will the cloistered Vatican give up the life of Pope?

The Perfect Kill by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T18:56:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, small tear on front cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Three days before Christmas in 1988,a bomb blew Pan Am 103 out of the sky over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all passengers and crew. The wife and four year old daughter of Creasy were amongst the passengers. Seeking his personal vengeance, Creasy finds the backup of power-a US Senator, whose wife also died on Pan Am 103: and of youth-an eighteen year old orphan called Michael. Ruthlessly and relentlessly, Creasy trains Michael into becoming a man in his own image. Trains him...for the perfect kill.

Black Horn by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T18:49:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

In Zimbabwe a young American woman is shot dead by a sniper at her camp on the bank of the Zambezi River. In Hong Kong, Lucy Kwok, a Chinese air hostess, returns from Tokyo to find her father, mother and brother have been brutally murdered. The killings are linked - to Africa.

Ex-mercenary Creasy is hired to find the American women's killers, and when Lucy Kwok discovers that the truth behind her family's death also lies in Zimbabwe, a fateful meeting is set in motion.

Message from Hell by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T18:44:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, browned pages
Price: RM10

The latest Creasy adventure takes our hero to Vietnam and Cambodia, ostensibly on a mission to rescue a US serviceman taken prisoner twenty-six years earlier during the Vietnam war. In reality, however, the mission is a decoy organised by a sadistic Eurasain woman, Connie Crum, who is a high-ranking officer of the Khmer Rouge. She has long harboured a grudge against Creasy who was responsible for the death of her father. A cat and mouse game between the two principles ensues, as each tries to out guess the other, resulting in a climactic shoot-out in a heavily mined and guarded Buddhist temple hidden in the Cambodian jungle.

The Blue Ring by AJ Quinnell

2009-10-30T18:37:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Browned pages
Price: RM10

Creasy, a veteran mercenary, had found solitude on a small, Mediterranean island, far from the violent conflicts of his past profession. That solitude is broken when he is confronted by Juliet, a thirteen-year-old heroine addict whose life has been almost destroyed by 'The Blue Ring', a powerful, worldwide cartel dealing in drugs, prostitution and the use of Satanism to pursue their ends. Now Creasy has a new mission; to hunt down the evil men who trade in death and degradation... and destroy their paymaster, the evil genius at the sentre of an internation web of corruption.

A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon

2009-10-30T18:28:00.006+08:00

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Toby Temple - Superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets ay woman he wants. But underneath the callous super-stud image is a lonely man, desperate for attention, greedy for love.

Jill Castle - Beautiful sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and an ambition even greater than Toby's.

Together they rule the glittering kingdom of Hollywood until lust, jealousy, revenge turn triumph to tragedy in a nightmare scenario that rolls relentlessly on to a stunning, sensational climax...

Morning, Noon & Night by Sidney Sheldon

2009-10-30T18:24:00.005+08:00

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When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be the daughter of Harry Stanford and entitled to a share of the tycoon's estateis she genuine or an impostor? The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America, but behind the facade of fame and glamour is a hidden web of blackmail, drugs, and murder.Sidney Sheldons Morning, Noon, and Night sweeps from the splendors of the Italian Riviera to the fashion salons of Paris and New York, to the elite of Bostons Back Bay and the social register of Floridas Hobe Sound. His intriguing story twists and turns its way through smoke and mirrors until the ultimate Sidney Sheldon surprise ending.

Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon

2009-10-30T18:18:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Worn cover, browned pages, scribbles on inside back cover
Price: RM5

Kate Blackwell is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she;s a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of dead to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated and loved; the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil - her winnings in life. Is she the master of the game?

Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

2009-10-30T17:57:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Worn cover, browned pages, scribbles on last page
Price: RM5

Shadowed by tragedy and burdened by amnesia, a beautiful woman desperately tries to return to reality. She is Catherine Douglas, destined to once again challenge the cruel, charismatic power of Constantin Demiris, the Greek shipping tycoon who murdered Catherine's husband. Now, in the glittering capitals and carefree playgrounds of postwar Europe, Demiris sets his deadly sights on Catherine - the single, treacherous secret whose shattering truth is known to her alone...

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

2009-10-30T16:28:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Price: RM20

Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."

Slightly lost, slightly off-kilter, very shy, Mirabelle charms because of all that she is not: not glamorous, not aggressive, not self-aggrandizing. Still there is something about her that is irresistible.

Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they both struggle to decipher the language of love -- with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin critical success, Shopgirl is a work of disarming tenderness.

How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto

2009-10-30T16:25:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, small tear on front cover
Price: RM20

Eight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living.

Reader's Digest: Select Editions 4

2009-10-30T16:20:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction (Condensed Version)
Type: Hardcover
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM20

1. The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
2. Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas
3. Echo Park by Michael Connelly
4. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

2009-10-30T16:17:00.005+08:00

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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.

Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood.

As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.

Reader's Digest: 4 Books by Frederick Forsyth

2009-10-30T16:05:00.011+08:00

Category: Fiction (Condensed Version)
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Price: RM40

The Day of the Jackal

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

The Dogs of War

In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar's worth of the world's most valuable mineral, platinum. "Not only exciting but truly surprising"--Atlantic. Now the only question is, how to get hold of it. Sir James knows how. Invade the country with a band of savage, cold-blooded mercenaries. Topple the government and set up a puppet dictatorship. Unleash the dogs of war.

The Negotiator

Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man--Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet--can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator.President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all--and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strengths--to save not only the victim but the entire free world.

Avenger

Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has lost forever. Until, of course, Dexter reads something in the papers that sends him the necessary signal. Until one of the handful who know of Dexter's other life tries to contact him. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, few can settle a score like Cal Dexter can. But the game is changing, and this time CIA agent Kevin McBride must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos. Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trade-marks and is sure to be this fall's most suspenseful read.

The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi

2009-10-30T15:53:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, price sticker mark on back cover
Price: RM20

The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not.

It's 1942 and Rocco Raven, an intrepid auto mechanic turned corporal from Brooklyn, has arrived in Malta, a Mediterranean island of Neolithic caves, Copper Age temples, and fortresses. The island is under siege, full of smoke and rubble, caught in the magnesium glare of German and Italian bombs.

But nothing is as it seems on Malta. Rocco's living quarters are a brothel; his commanding officer has a genius for turning the war's misfortunes into personal profit; and the Maltese people, astonishingly, testify to the resiliency of the human spirit. When Rocco meets the beautiful and ethereal Melita, who delivers the jukeboxes her cousin builds out of shattered debris, they are drawn to each other by an immediate passion. And, it is their full-blown affair that at once liberates and imprisons Rocco on the island.

In this mesmerizing novel, music and bombs, war and romance, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint in a story that is a profound and deeply moving exploration of the redemptive powers of love.

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

2009-10-30T15:50:00.005+08:00

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Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .

In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

2009-10-30T15:46:00.003+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Price: RM25

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.

The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s?

On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.

Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.

Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction by Michael Crick

2009-10-30T15:41:00.003+08:00

Category: Non-Fiction/Biography
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Brown spots on pages edge, otherwise good
Price: RM25

A tale of burning ambition and yearning for power, of financial, political and sexual intrigue, yet also of great compassion and generosity. It sounds like the blurb for one of his novels. It isn't. It is the biography of Jeffrey Archer.

Saving Faith by David Baldacci

2009-10-30T15:36:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Yellowed pages, browned edges, otherwise good
Price: RM20

Saving Faith is a political thriller spiced with techno-wizardry.The villain is a classic spy caricature: cold-war CIA super-patriot Robert Thornhill wants to reclaim the glory days of the Central Intelligence Agency--when money flowed like the Mississippi during a flood, and the FBI watched helplessly from the sidelines. Working from his secret underground bunker, he blackmails Danny Buchanan, one of the great Washington lobbyists, to front an enormous bribery scheme that will force Congress to bend to the CIA's whims. But Thornhill's plan springs a leak: Buchanan's assistant Faith Lockhart discovers her boss's dirty dealings, and she intends to expose the whole mess to Thornhill's nemesis, the FBI. Thornhill's associates attempt to assassinate Faith, but their bullet kills her FBI escort instead. Faith finds herself on the run with Lee Adams, a fit-and-trim PI who had been shadowing her at the behest of Buchanan.

The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer

2009-10-30T15:33:00.004+08:00

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Yellowed pages otherwise good
Price: RM20

Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war's end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn't enough. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Keith Townsend, the Oxford-educated son of a millionaire newspaper owner, takes over his family's business. His energy and brilliant strategic thinking quickly make him the leading newspaper publisher in Australia. Still, he longs to move on to the world stage.

As both Armstrong and Townsend seize control of everything they see, their ambitions collide on a global scale. But suddenly they both find themselves threatened by finicial disaster and enormous debt. Frantic to save his crumbling empire, each man turns desperate. One's quest will lead to triumph, the other's will end in tragedy in this awesome tale of wealth and corruption, desire and destruction.

A Prison Diary by Jeffrey Archer (FF8282)

2009-10-30T15:04:00.006+08:00

Category: Non-Fiction/Memoir
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages otherwise good
Price: RM20

On July 19, 2001, following a conviction for perjury, international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison. Prisoner FF8282, as Archer is now known, spent the first three weeks in the notorious HMP Belmarsh, a high-security prison in South London, home to murderers, terrorists and some of Britain's most violent criminals.On the last day of the trial, his mother dies, and the world's press accompany him to the funeral. On returning to prison, he's placed on the lifer's wing, where a cellmate sells his story to the tabloids. Prisoners and guards routinely line up outside his cell to ask for his autograph, to write letters, and to seek advice on their appeals.For twenty-two days, Archer was locked in a cell with a murderer and a drug baron. He decided to use that time to write an hour-by-hour diary, detailing the worst three weeks of his life.When A Prison Diary was published in England, it was condemned by the prison authorities, and praised by the critics.

A good read.

2009-10-22T14:56:00.012+08:00

I just finished reading this dear little book, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' by Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Barrows which I thoroughly enjoyed. The whole book is a series of letters between the characters. The writing is smart, witty and funny and it's a light and easy read. The story is set during the period just after World War II, and revolves around love, war and friendship...

'It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Juliet's curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear from other members. As letters fly back and forth with stories of life in Guernsey under the German Occupation, Juliet soon realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name.'

This is just the type of book I find delightful and would like to read more of. However, it's a shame, that this is the author's only novel. In the process of completing the book, she requested her niece to help her finish it, as her health declines. I guess that is one of the reasons that pulled me to read this book; the thought that this is a person's one and only published work, it must be something special. That, and the cute title.

Hello.

2009-10-21T16:45:00.002+08:00

Dear friends/followers/books enthusiasts,

We're in the midst of acquiring more books. Please be patient with us :)

In the meantime, for those looking for Children books, I highly recommend this blogshop. They have a wide selection of good quality, imported children books. I just stumbled upon it today actually. Have a nice day~

Yours Truly,
Booksybooks.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

2009-09-17T23:55:00.004+08:00

Salam,

Booksybooks would like to wish all our Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri! Happy happy holidays to all! As it is time for forgiveness, we hope you pardon any shortcomings on our part. Do take care and stay safe on the road…

Looking forward to a quiet, jam-less KL weeeee :)

Yours Truly,

Booksybooks.

Colour Of Happyhouse: Berbuka Puasa with Us..

2009-09-04T05:43:00.006+08:00

Hi!

It’s Bulan Ramadhan :) and we would like to invite you to Berbuka Puasa with us at ‘Colour of Happyhouse’, a berbuka gathering organized by Cloth and Clef.

COLOUR OF HAPPYHOUSE
When and where.
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Sunday, 6th September 2009
5pm onwards
Cloth and Clef, Jln Changkat Bukit Bintang
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What to expect;
.. BBQ! With special pasta carbonara and a variety of side dishes
.. Open mic session; acoustics and poetry reading
.. Live performances
.. Movie screening; Malaysian independent film
.. Cloth and Clef selling their merchandises; t-shirts, bags, etc (at a discount!)
.. Booksybooks selling cheapo books
.. If you’re feeling charitable (it is a holy month), bring along your old clothes, shoes and toys. All to be donated to orphaned children.

I think it doesn’t get any better than that, with food, entertainment and charity.. and oh.. books ;)

For more information; visit Cloth and Clef facebook group.

Thank you and see you.

Yours Truly,
Booksybooks.