Wednesday, November 6, 2013

She Went All The Way, Meg Cabot

She Went All The Way by Meg Cabot
5/5
RM18

Right after their romantic partners elope with each other, Louise Calabrese and Jack Townsend find themselves thrust into an adventure. Stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, relying on each other for survival, they have to outwit the mysterious bad guys who are after them if they don't kill each other first!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

A Desirable Residence, Madeleine Wickham (Hardcover) (SOLD)


A Desirable Residence by Madeleine Wickham (Hardcover)
5/5
RM30
SOLD

Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They'd stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project - well, Liz thought it exciting - buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn't sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway.Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. Marcus, senior partner in Silchester's leading estate agency, was large, assured, and wore an expensive overcoat. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything was going to be OK.But soon Marcus found himself involved with Liz in a way he'd never intended. Keeping his adulterous trysts secret from Anthea was uncomfortably easy - most of the time her head was firmly buried in Improve your Child's IQ. Meanwhile, as Liz was lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan was left to run the tutorial college. Neither of them had time to notice that teenage Alice was developing a desperate passion for the tenants, Piers and Ginny. Everyone seemed to be entangled with everyone else, in the most awkward possible way. And as events closed in on him, Marcus began to realise that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home. 

One Hundred Names, Cecelia Ahern (SOLD)


One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern
4.8/5
RM25 (Free Pos Daftar)
SOLD

Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her - what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names. There is no synopsis, no explanation, nothing else to explain what the story is or who these people are. The list is simply a mystery. But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late. With everything to prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life - to write the story her mentor never had the opportunity to. Kitty has to not only track down and meet the people on Constance's list, but find out what connects them. And, in the process of hearing ordinary people's stories, she uncovers Constance's - and starts to understand her own.

My Wish List, Gregoire Delacourt (SOLD)


My Wish List by Gregoire Delacourt
4/5
RM20
SOLD

The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams?
Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Could her life have been different?
Then she wins the lottery—and suddenly finds the world at her fingertips. But she chooses not to tell anyone, not even her husband—not just yet. Without cashing the check, she begins to make a list of all the things she could do with the money. But does Jocelyne really want her life to change?

The Book of Tomorrow, Cecelia Ahern (#2) (SOLD)


The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
4.8/5
RM25 (Free Pos Daftar)
SOLD

Tamara's childhood. With her mother shut away with grief, and her aunt busy tending to her, Tamara is lonely and bored and longs to return to Dublin. When a travelling library passes through Kilsaney Demesne, Tamara is intrigued. She needs a distraction. Her eyes rest on a mysterious large leather bound tome locked with a gold clasp and padlock. With some help, Tamara finally manages to open the book. What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its core. Told in Cecelia's imitable style, The Girl of Tomorrow is a mesmerising and magical story for this autumn.

Friday, January 21, 2011

The Wedding Girl, Madeleine Wickham (Hardcover) (SOLD)


The Wedding Girl by Madeleine Wickham (Hardcover)
4/5
RM20
SOLD

At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn't hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Now, ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon - who is good-looking, wealthy and adores her - she is about to have the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable, all masterminded by her mother. Nobody knows about her first marriage, so it's almost as though it never happened - isn't it? But with only four days to go, it looks as though Milly's past is going to catch up with her. Can she sort things out before her fairytale wedding collapses around her? How can she tell Simon? And worse still, how can she tell her mother...?

Sleeping Arrangements, Sophie Kinsella (SOLD)

Sleeping Arrangements by Sophie Kinsella
4/5
RM26
SOLD

Chloe needs a holiday. Her partner, Philip, has troubles at work, and the whole family wants a break. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife, Amanda, seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him—and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he’ll have a chance to bond with them on holiday…

When the two families arrive at a villa in Spain for their respective vacations, they all get a shock—it has been double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins, and tensions mount in the soaring heat. But the temperature isn’t solely to blame: What no one else realizes is that Chloe and Hugh have a history—and that the “accidental” overlap might not have been so accidental after all

Shopaholic & Sister, Sophie Kinsella (SOLD)

Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella
3/5
RM20
SOLD


Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic, is back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!).


What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong…the hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka…the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)… 

Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their loft, and the bills for them are outrageous. Luke insists Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky’s feeling rather blue—when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She’s convinced her sister will be a true soul mate. They’ll go shopping together, have manicures together.Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood’s sister can’t…hate shopping?

The Tennis Party, Sophie Kinsella (SOLD)


The Tennis Party by Sophie Kinsella
4/5
RM26
SOLD


It was Patrick's idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting -- the White House, bought out of his bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn't actually told Caroline, his brash and beautiful wife, what the real reason for the party is. She is glad to welcome Stephen and Annie, their impoverished former neighbours, less glad to see newly wealthy Charles and his aristocratic wife Cressida, and barely able to tolerate the deadly competitive Don and Valerie.

But as the first ball is served over the net it signals the start of two days of tempers, shocks, revelations, the arrival of an uninvited guest, and the realization that the weekend is about anything but tennis.

The Wedding, Nicholas Sparks (SOLD)

The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
4/5
RM26
SOLD


With The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and his other beloved novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks has given voice to our deepest beliefs about the power of love. Now he brings us the long-awaited follow-up to The Notebook-a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life... After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair (originally recounted in The Notebook), Wilson himself is a man unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office, leaving the responsibility of raising their children to Jane. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it is this: His love for Jane has only grown over the years, and he will do everything he can to save their marriage. With the memories of Noah and Allie's inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him...all over again. In this powerfully moving tale of love lost, rediscovered, and renewed, Nicholas Sparks once again brings readers his unique insight into the only emotion that ultimately really matters.

The Choice, Nicholas Sparks (SOLD)

The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
4/5
RM26
SOLD


#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make.

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies--he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him . . . and the presence of her longtime boyfriend doesn't help. Despite himself, Travis can't stop trying to ingratiate himself with his new neighbor, and his persistent efforts lead them both to the doorstep of a journey that neither could have foreseen. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heart wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

Ella Mental Series, Amber Deckers (SOLD)

Ella Mental Series by Amber Deckers
Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
Ella Mental: Life, Love and more Good Sense
3/5
Yellowed pages
RM10 both as a set
(note: have name written inside)
SOLD 

 The Elemental Good Sense Guide is made up of basic observations I make about people and life, which I then turn into sayings. Elemental -- that's also my nickname, but it's actually more like "Ella Mental." You see: It changes the meaning entirely. Ella Watson is sensible to a fault. Thanks to the little nuggets of wisdom she collects in her Good Sense Guide, she's the perfect go-to girl for any friend in need. But when Ella has an argument with her best friend, Toby, her faithful guide falls short. Ella has been so focused on her friends that she's missed what's right in front of her face -- now she'll have to trade in sense for sensibility to mend her friendship.

Shanghai Girls, Lisa See (SOLD)

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
5/5 
RM20
SOLD

 In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides.


As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules. 



At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other, but each knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other the most. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are–Shanghai girls.

Teen Idol, Meg Cabot (SOLD)

Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
5/5
Excellent condition, but inside has name written in it
RM18
SOLD

 High school junior Jenny Greenley is so good at keeping secrets that she's the school newspaper's anonymous advice columnist. She's so good at it that, when hotter-than-hot Hollywood star Luke Striker comes to her small town to research a role, Jenny is the one in charge of keeping his identity under wraps. But Luke doesn't make it easy, and soon everyone - the town, the paparazzi, and the tabloids alike - knows his secret... and Jenny is caught right in the middle of all the chaos.

Truth or Dare Series, Cathy Hopkins (SOLD)

  Truth or Dare Series by Cathy Hopkins
Truth or Dare: Love Lottery 
Truth or Dare: All Mates Together 
Truth or Dare: Teen Queens and Has-Beens 
Truth or Dare: Midsummer Meltdown 
Truth or Dare: Starstruck 
3/5
Slightly yellowed pages
RM10 each
SOLD OUT

All Mates Together:
Big changes are coming for Cat: post-high school plans, a big move and her dad is finally getting remarried. But despite having looking forward to the changes, now Cat's worried about letting go of her old life-and saying goodbye to her home.
Cat's friends come to the rescue and organize a sleepover. while playing truth or dare, the friends promise to always be there for each other-no matter what happens in their lives. and as plans for the move and the wedding take shape, Cat learns that the more things change, the more the important things stay the same.


Teen Queens and Has-Beens:
"Yeah but...," I started, "then I decided to confront what I thought was probably really bothering her. "Look, about Jonno. I didn''t mean for anything to happen. He just kind of..." "After a game of truth or dare, Lia manages to gain the interest of the school heartthrob, and alienates "teen queen" Kaylie, who was after Jonno for herself. Kaylie and her friends then start a campaign of bullying against Lia -- the nasty, underhanded kind where rumors are spread, threats are sent, secrets are exposed, and confidence is underminded. Soon Lia begins to question her whole life: who she is, why these girls have got it in for her, and who her "real" friends are...

Midsummer Meltdown:
Excited about her mom's big birthday party, Lia looks forward to seeing lots of familiar faces and introducing her new boyfriend, Squidge, to everyone in attendance, but when her ex-boyfriend ends up on the guest list, Lia begins to worry what will happen when he shows up and worlds collide.

Starstruck:
Squidge is over the moon - he has just started going out with the beautiful Lia. And when Lia challenges him to a game of Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise, Squidge promises her that he will always be open and honest. But things get complicated when a film crew arrives in the area and Squidge's dream to work on a movie comes true. Savannah, the celebrity teenage star, adopts Squidge as her personal runner and starts to show an interest in him. Will he be able to keep Savannah happy without breaking his promise to Lia?

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Classic Singapore Horror Stories, Damien Sin (SOLD)

Classic Singapore Horror Stories by Damien Sin
Book 2, 3 and 4
3/5
Book 2 RM5 (yellowed pages)
RM8 each for book 3 & 4
By as a set for RM25 inclusive Registered Postage
(note: have name written inside)
SOLD

Book 2: Damien Sin is back with another nightmarish glimpse into the maddening vistas of the unspeakable. Each story is brilliantly crafted by Singapore's foremost story teller. Step into the macabre world of Damien Sin.

Book 3: Take macabre imagination of nightmarish proportion, add a dollop of twisted humour, and stir with unholy glee. Season with distinctive Singaporean flavour... This is Damien Sin's latest concoction. Enjoy!

Book 4: No vampires, no werewolves, no zombies, no serial killers. The stories in this book are purely Asian experience. An exotic blend of multicultural superstitions, a whirlpool of myriad ethnic devilry. This is the original Sin brew of human desire, shameless lust, violence, greed, random sadism and pure wickedness... all the repressed instincts we hide away from others, and ourselves. As you read, don't be surprised to discover exactly who you are and what you might be.