Thursday, November 21, 2013

Smash Cut by Sandra Brown


Price: RM12 (free shipping within Malaysia)

'Do you know what a smash cut is?'
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'It's an abrupt edit. A sudden shift of scene. Used to shock the audience. Very effective. Lots of impact. It'll be like that. No one will see it coming. Especially her.'

When Paul Wheeler is shot dead during an armed robbery, his lover Julie Rutledge is convinced that Paul's prodigal nephew, Creighton, is responsible for the murder.

Creighton has a passion for movies and Paul's murder has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress.

Although Creighton has a rock-solid alibi, even his renowned defense attorney, Derek Mitchell, soon doubts the young man's innocence.

The clock ticks down as Derek and Julie seek to learn if Creighton's fascination with movie murders is merely a bizarre hobby, or something more sinister. Has he begun re-enacting cinema's goriest scenes? And, if so, who will be his unwitting co-stars?

They won't know until the final Smash Cut.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella


Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood.
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She has a great flat, a fabulous wardrobe full of the season's must-haves, and a job telling other people how to manage their money.

She spends her leisure time... shopping.

Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, but she can't. She tries Cutting Back, she tries Making More Money. But neither seems to work. The letters from the bank are getting harder to ignore. Can Becky ever escape from this dreamworld, find true love, and regain theuse of her credit card?

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic... the perfect pick-me-up for when it's all hanging in the (bank) balance.

Friday, November 15, 2013

River, Cross my Heart by Breena Clarke


Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)

In scenes alive with emotional truth, this remarkable novel brings to life an entire community - the Georgetown neigbourhood of Washington, D.C., Circa 1925 - as it weighs the effect of a young girl's tragic death on the people she has left behind.

5th Horseman by James Patterson with Maxine Paetro


Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)

A young mother dies: A young mother is recuperating in a top San Francisco hospital when suddenly she's gasping for breath. The cal...l button fails to bring help in time. How and why did this happen?

The Women's Murder Club investigates: With help from the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer discovers that this is not the hospital's first suspicious case. Other patients have taken unexpected and devastating turns for the worse just as they're about to go home. Are these just appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives?

The 5th Horseman Rides: When someone close to the Women's Murder Club begins to exhibit the same terrifying symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe. In a wild race against time she must fight an administration determined to shield its reputation even if it means hiding a killer...

The newest addition to the top-selling mystery series takes the Women's Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have encountered yet.

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham


Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)

Imagine a year without Christmas.
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No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents.

That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.

A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frezny that has become part of our holiday tradition.

Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs


Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old - and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emo...tion in check.

A nagging in her subconcious won't let up. A memory triggered, deep in her hindbrain - the disappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation.

Detective Andrew Ryan is working a series of parallel cases: three missing persons, three unidentified bodies - all female, all early-to-mid teens... Could Tempe's skeleton be yet another in this tragic line of young victims? Or is she over-reacting, makin connections where none exist?

Working on instinct, Tempe takes matters into her own hands. But even she couldn't have predicted the horrors his investigation would eventually uncover... Can Tempe maintain a professional distance as the past catches up with her in this, her most deeply personal case yet?

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie




Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia).
Condition: Used.

Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only ...Elinor has the motive, the opportunity and means to administer the fatal poison.

Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows...

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert


Price: RM20 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

At the end of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born Australian citizen. Resettling in America, they swore eterna...l fidelity, but also (each survivor of a divorce. Enough said) swore never, ever, to get married. But when providence intervened in the form of the US government, they faced a start choice: either marry, or Felipe could never return to the US. Effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert delves into the subject of marriage and, debunking myths, unthreading fears, celebrating love, suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood.

Ricochet by Sandra Brown


Price: RM15 (free shipping within Malaysia).
Condition: Used.

When detective Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the Savannah home of Judge Cato Laird, where a killing has occurred, he knows that discretion is key to the investigation and to keeping his job. The judge's beloved trophy wife, Elise, has shot a burglar and claims self-defense, but Duncan suspects she's lying. Determined to uncover any potential connection between the dead man and the Lairds, Duncan must jeopardize his career by investigating further. When Elise seeks him out and makes an incredible allegation, he dismisses it as the lie of a cunning woman who wishes to exploit his intense attraction to her. But when Elise goes missing, Duncan finds that his real enemy may be his own conscience and that trusting the wrong person could also mean the difference between life and death.

Monday, November 11, 2013

One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern


Price: RM30 (free shipping within Malaysia).
Condition: Used

One hundred names... one hundred people. Kitty Logan inherits just a single list with the promise that it's a story she has to tell.

Lethal by Sandra Brown

 
 
Price: RM15 (free shipping within Malaysia).
Condition: Used.

When her four-year-old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillete rushes out to help him. But that 'sick' man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. And Coburn is there to retrieve it - at any cost.
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The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson


Price: RM20 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

As teenagers, Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate, the two seemingly gramourous teens were dubbed "The Ice Cream Girls" by the press and were dealt with by the courts.

Years later, having led very different lives, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened, while Serena wants no one in her present to find out about her past. But some secrets will not stay buried - and if theirs is revealed, everything will become a living hell all over again.

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson


Price: RM15 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

Crusading publisher Mikael Blomkvist has decided to run an explosive expose of a wide-ranging sex trafficking operation. Just before the piece is published, two people are brutally murdered. The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled hacker genius Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Listbeth herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, and is forced to face her dark past.

The Time of my Life by Cecelia Ahern

 
Price: RM20 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

Are you taking your life for granted?

Lucy Silchester is. She's busied herself with other things: friends' lives, work issues, her deteriorating car, that kind of thing. But she's stuck i...n a rut - and deluding everyone. Only Lucy knows the real truth.

Time for a wake-up call - a meeting with life. And life turns out to be a kindly, rather run-down man in an old suit, who is determined to change things - and won't let Lucy off the hook.

Sometimes we all need to make time for our life....

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert


Price: RM20 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floori. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby -... she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds; to an ashram in India, where she fiends that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor and to Bali where toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

The Girl in the Mirror by Cathy Glass

 
Price: RM20 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

When Mandy hears her much-loved grandfather is very ill, she rushes to her aunt's house to be by his side. On returning to the place where she spent so many idyllic childhood summers, Mandy is shocked to di...scover she has no memories of those days at all. Fleeting moments come to her - a voice, a face, a feeling - but otherwise, it is as if they never happened.

Nothing can stay hidden forever. As memories drift back to her during her stay, Mandy slowly pieces together the horrific events that brought an abrupt end to those summer visits.

Only by facing her past can Mandy bring her family back together. Dare she lift the veil on those years of forgotten summers - and reconnect with the girl in the mirror?

Step by Step by June Francis

 
Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)
Condition: Used

Hannah Kirk and Alice Moran have been friends since childhood. Growing up in the back streets of historic Chester at the beginning of the 1900s, they are used to supporting each other when family lifes g...et tough. But when Alice's mother dies in childbirth, Hannah fears that her friend will be left to defend her sensotive brother - who has been mute since birth - from their violent father's temper.

Hannah's worst fears are confirmed when Alice becomes the only witness to a violent crime when her father attacks Susannah Kirk - Hannah's mother. As Alice tries to escape her father's clutches, Hannah is struggling with the consequences of her mother's accident. Torn apart through circumstance, will the two girls ever be free of the weight of the past, or will the years of guilt and pain that now separate their lives become too much of an obstacle to overcome?

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

 
Condition: Used
Price: RM10 (free shipping within Malaysia)

Tommy and Tuppence, two young people flat broke and out of work, are restless for excitement. They embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd - 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'.

B...ut their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, draws them into a sinister, political conspiracy. Under the eye of the elusive, ruthless Mr Brown, they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever imagined.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

The Cuckoo's Calling

Price: RM30
Condition: Used
Year: 2013
Author: Robert Galbraith aka J.K. Rowling

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private i...nvestigators Cormoran Strike to look into the case.

Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get and the closer he gets to terrible danger...