Wednesday 30 December 2009

PHILIP PULLMAN The Golden Compass



In this first part of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, Lyra's friend Roger disappears. She and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. Their quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North where a team of scientists are conducting unspeakably horrible experiments.

Harga Kami: RM16.50

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EOIN COLFER Artemis Fowl


Fantastic stuff from beginning to end, Artemis Fowl is a rip-roaring, 21st-century romp of the highest order. The author has let his imagination run riot by combining folklore, fantasy and a fistful of high-tech funk in an outrageously devilish book that could well do for fairies what Harry Potter has done for wizardry. But be warned: this is no gentle frolic so don't be fooled by the fairy subject matter. Instead what we have here is well written, sophisticated, rough and tumble storytelling with enough high-octane attitude to make it a seriously cool read for anyone over the age of 10.

Harga: RM18.50

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Tuesday 29 December 2009

LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Hunger



When it comes to evoking the smash of cultures, national and familial, this superlatively gifted author has perfect pitch. The characters in Hunger are starved for any number of things: acceptance, love, success, and even dreams of home.Chang's stories are about love, memory and all the things that remain unspoken within families. The stories beautifully evoke the wrenching pain of leaving home--the pain of immigrant Chinese parents starting anew in America and the pain of their children, whose inevitable departures underline their parents' rootlessness and loss.

A MUST HAVE IN YOUR COLLECTION...

Harga: RM20.00

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SUE MONK KIDD The Secret Life of Bees



* The Motion Picture with the same title, adapted from this book, was released in 2008, and has won numerous awards, including People's Choice Best Drama Movie.

In The Secret Life of Bees, the search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother.

Harga: RM20.00

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Monday 28 December 2009

CATHY KELLY What She Wants...



The age-old question: What do women want? Though men may be clueless, women are supposed to know. Yet in the case of Kelly's heroines, four very different women struggling to cope with strikingly similar challenges, the answers are not always obvious nor easily found.
Set in the contrasting venues of a quintessentially quaint Irish village and vibrant, urban London, Kelly's lengthy novel of personal growth and discovery empathically communicates highly charged yet recognizable emotional issues through resilient and realistically drawn characters.


Harga: RM24.00

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Saturday 26 December 2009

JOHN SANFORD Chosen Prey


The deadliest of crimes, the coldest of killers... You will not be able to put this book down..Soon after the body of a young blonde is found in a partially excavated grave on a remote wilderness hillside, a deputy sheriff from backwater Wisconsin shows up with a file containing case histories of several women reported missing in Wisconsin and Minnesota over a nine-year period. Fearing the worst, the hillside was surveyed; subsequent excavation uncovers seven more bodies. The art world connections of some of the victims and the discovery of pornographic drawings suggests a link to the art community around the local Catholic university.

Harga: RM18.50

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ELISABETH HYDE The Abortionist Daughter



A murder, suspense, and thrilling story that provides a frame for the turbulence in and around a woman propelled by idealism and strongly held beliefs...

Harga: RM20.00.

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DOUGLAS KENNEDY State of the Union



Douglas Kennedy’s riveting new novel bears his trademark genius for writing serious popular fiction.
Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of recent American life — the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found conservatism of today — State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of one woman’s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political currents of her time. But it is also an intriguing portrait of the complexities of a long marriage, the ongoing guilt of parenthood, the perpetual tension between familial responsibility and personal freedom, and the divisive debate between liberal and conservative values that so engulfs the United States today.


Harga: RM25.00

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JUSTIN HILL The Drink and Dream Teahouse


The Drink and Dream Teahouse is a historical romance set in a moribund rural town in contemporary China. Through the lives of its central characters, it chronicles the transition from a communist society to the uncertainties of the future. The characters are largely emblematic and accommodate traditional Chinese culture with emergent capitalist and Western ideas: Old Zhu, the keeper of the old communist faith and founder of the factory; Da Shah, his entrepreneurial son and part of the Tiananmen Square generation; Madam Fan, the local amateur opera singer and her daughter Peach.

Harga: RM22.50.

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TING-XING YE A Leaf in the Bitter Wind



One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye’s riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1974).
An inspiring story of a woman refusing to “drift with the stream” and fighting her way through an impossible, unjust system. This compelling, heart-wrenching story has been published in Germany, Japan, the US, UK and Australia, where it went straight to #1 on the bestseller list and has been reprinted several times...


Harga: RM22.50

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Monday 14 December 2009

SHIRLEY BARBER'S The Enchanted Woods(WITH CD)


Illustrated fantasy picture book for young children (WITH CD).

Harga: RM22.00

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Saturday 12 December 2009

CHRIS MANBY Getting Personal



Friends don't let friends settle . . .

Harga: RM17.50

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LIZA DALBY Geisha



The life a Geisha through the eyes of a cultural anthropologist. Dalby embarks upon a mission of mystique, prestige, and learning, creating a fascinating and enjoyable read. It's a definitive source on the subject, and shouldn't be missed by any aficionados.

Harga: RM18.50

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OLIVIA DARLING Priceless



Get Rich, Get Lucky, Get Even...

Harga: RM20.00

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Wednesday 9 December 2009

JODI PICOULT Second Glance



When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. .. As a seventy-year-old murder case is reopened, a shocking secret about a crime of passion long past is revealed.

Harga: RM25.00

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Monday 7 December 2009

CHRISTINA JONES Tickled Pink



The story of two women who are both at a turning point in their lives, and who have each suffered an enormous emotional blow. As the book unfolds, they both learn to deal with what’s happened to them, and begin to move forward, tentatively at first, towards a better life, and in both cases a surprising new relationship...

Harga: RM18.00

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BELINDA JONES I Love Capri



A brilliantly entertaining read, which despite its serious themes of love and betrayal, manages to be light-hearted and funny and so engrossing that will make you so absorbed in the story.

Harga: RM20.00

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MARIAN KEYES Watermelon



Marian Keyes begins Watermelon with a rather inauspicious romantic opening when the heroine's husband leaves her for Denise from the flat downstairs the day their first child is born. Claire, the deserted wife and mother, returns to her family in Dublin and, after going through the required stages of "Loss, Loneliness, Hopelessness and Humiliation", begins to feel much better--so much better that when James tries to win his way back into her affections, he gets more than he bargained for.

Harga: RM20.00
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Thursday 3 December 2009

HARLAN COBEN Promise Me


Harga : RM20.00

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Wednesday 2 December 2009

HARLAN COBEN Deal Breaker



Harga: RM20.00

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