Genre: True Story, Non-Fiction

Author: Jenny Tomlin

Title: Behind Closed Doors

Price: RM35.00

Condition: New – Paperback

Release: 13/02/2006

Short Description of Book

Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father’s violent beatings, humiliations and sexual abuse were part of daily life; mother – also his sexual victim and savagely beaten – was no source of help. Deprived of love and all comforts, the children would turn to each other for support and to to the only adult they could trust, Auntie. This is the story of how Jenny, her sister Kim and brother Laurence, not only survived but ultimately transcended the unimaginable degradations heaped on them. With the power of love, cunning, the blackest of black humour and an indestructible self0belief, Jenny eventually broke free of her past.

Genre: General, Fiction

Author: Claire Messud

Title: The Emperor’s Children

Price: RM25.00

Condition: New – Paperback

Release: 26/06/2007

Short Description Of Book

From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way – and not – in New York City.

There is a beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite – an “It’ girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist – and her two closest friends friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray’s nephew, Frederick “Bootie” Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie’s unexpected decisions – and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome – that will change each of their lives forever.

A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune – of innocence and experience, seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster and promise – The Emperor’s Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation and the way we live in this moment.

Genre: Young Adult, Non-Fiction (Biography & Autobiography-Literary)

Author: Quentin Blake (Illustrator) & Wendy Cooking (Compiler)

Title: D Is For Dahl

Price: RM25.00

Condition: New – Harcover

Release: 16/08/2007

Short Description Of Book

From Aardvark to Zipfizzing, this is the alphabetical guide to everything you ever needed to know – and a lot that you didn’t – about Britain’s best-loved, bestselling children’s writer, packed with fascinating facts about Dahl’s life, books and family. With snippets from his school reports, secrets that he shared with his best friends and the truth about where he got the inspiration for his most famous creations – once you dip in to D Is For Dahl you’ll be sucked into an irresistible vortex and come out a complete Dahlmaniac!

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Genre: Thriller, Fiction

Author: Ted Dekker

Title: Adam

Price: RM30.00

Condition: New – Paperback

Release: 31/03/2009

Short Description of Book

New York Times best-selling author Ted Dekker unleashes his most riveting novel yet about an elusive serial killer whose victims die of unknown causes and the psychologist obsessed with catching him.

FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has been made famous by his arguments that religion is one of society’s greatest antagonists. What Daniel doesn’t know is that his obsessive pursuit of a serial killer known only as “Eve” will end his own death at Eve’s hand. Twenty minutes later Daniel is resuscitated, only to be haunted by those twenty missing minutes of files.

It soon becomes painfully clear that the only way to stop Eve is to recover those missing minutes by dying…again. What isn’t nearly as clear is just how many times he will have to die to discover the truth, not only about Eve, but about himself. Daniel will have to face haunting realities about demon possession in the modern world-and reevaluate his prejudice against religion – to stop Eve.

Genre: Crime, Fiction

Author: Agatha Christie

Title: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

Price: RM25.00

Condition: New – Paperback

Release: 14/10/2001

Short Description of Book

A blinding snowstorm — and a homicidal maniac — traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple set-up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which, in return, would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From thus classis title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases the intimtable Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as “the champion deceiver of our time.” (The New York Times)

Genre: Humour, Fiction

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Title: Remember Me?

Price: RM25.00

Condition: New – Paperback

Release: 1/12/2008

Short Description of Book

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it’s 2004 and she’s twenty five year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But to her disbelief, she learns its actually 2007 – she’s twenty eight, her teeth are straight, she’s the boss of her department – and she’s married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??!

She can’t believe her luck – especially when she sees her stunning new home. She’s sure she’ll have a fantastic marriage once she gets to know her husband again. He’s drawn up a ‘manual of our marriage’, which should help.

But as she learns more abour her new self, chinks start to appear in the perfect life. All her colleagues hate her. A rival is after her job. The a dishevelled, sexy guy turns up… and lands a new bombshell.

What the **** happened to her? Will she ever remember? And what will happen if she does?