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1. Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam - RM10
2. The Simple Truth by David Baldacci - RM5 Sold
3. Last Man Standing by David Baldacci - RM5 Sold
4. Absolute Power by David Baldacci (Hardcover) - RM15 Sold
5. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - RM10 Sold
6. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - RM15 Sold
7. The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby - RM10 Sold
8. Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane - RM15 Sold
9. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - RM15 Sold
10. Show of Evil by William Diehl - RM15
11. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans - RM5 Sold
12. Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler - RM15 Sold
13. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding - RM5 Sold
14. The Day of the Jackal/The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth (Hardcover) - RM20
15. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier - RM10 Sold
16. Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina - RM15
17. The Street Lawyer by John Grisham (Hardcover) - RM15
18. The Partner by John Grisham (Hardcover) - RM15
19. Hannibal by Thomas Harris (Hardcover) - RM15
20. The Bat Tattoo by Russell Hoban - RM5 Reserved
21. The Dark Heart of Italy: Travel Through Time and Space Across Italy by Tobias Jones - RM10
22. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan - RM15 Sold
23. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver - RM10
24. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - RM15
25. The Matarese Countdown by Robert Ludlum (Hardcover) - RM20
26. Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankell - RM15
27. When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson - RM10
28. Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller - RM15
29. The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller - RM15 Sold
30. Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski - RM10 Sold
31. Rumple and The Penge Bungalow Murder by John Mortimer - RM15
32. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell - RM10 Reserved
33. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - RM10 Reserved
34. De ja Dead by Kathy Reichs (Hardcover) - RM15
35. Memnoch: The Devil by Anne Rice - RM5
36. Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend by Christopher Ross - RM15
37. The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon (Hardcover) - RM15 Sold
38. Waldo by Paul Theroux - RM15
39. Trinities by Nick Tosches (Hardcover) - RM20
40. The Colour by Rose Tremain - RM10
41. The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way - RM10 Sold

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Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam

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

A sack of letters lost in a train crash 19 years before has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a little town in Pakistan are waiting to see what long-buried secrets will come to light. Could the letters have any bearing on Judge Anwar's murder?

In one of the most exquisite fictional debuts of recent years, Nadeem Aslam creates an exotic and timeless world, but one whose traditional rituals of everyday life are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes and religious tensions.

Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend by Christopher Ross

Category: Non-fiction - Memoir/Travel
Type: Paperback
Recognition: 2007 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed seppuku with his own antique sword. Mishima’s spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political protest against Japan’s emasculated postwar constitution; the epitaph of a mad genius. Part travelogue, part biography, and part philosophical treatise, Mishima’s Sword is the story of Christopher Ross’s journey to find a sword and maybe an understanding of Mishima’s country. The cold trail the author follows inspires a tale of the most engaging-and occasionally bizarre-sort, with glimpses of the real Japan that is not seen by tourists, with digressions on, among other things, bushido and socks, mutineers and Noh ghosts, nosebleeds and metallurgy-and even how to dress for suicide.

Waldo by Paul Theroux

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What Waldo thinks he wants is a nice simple girl, white and soothing as aspirin. What he gets is a sleazy hotel room full of insatiable Older Woman. Mentime, he dreams of a typewriter helpless under his hands. And, sure enough, soon after his glittering careers a delinquent, student and one-man quiz show, Waldo is discovered as journalism's sunniest new talent...

The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller

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Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-selling While I Was Gone brings her marvelous gifts to a powerful story of two unconventional women who unexpectedly change each other’s lives.

Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane

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"Reading in the Dark is a swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden, brilliant book."

--Seamus Heaney

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

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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.

The Colour by Rose Tremain

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Recognition: Shortlisted for The Orange Prize
Condition: Good
Price: RM10

Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother, and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the "colour," rush to their destinies and doom.

The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way

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"Admit how your pulse quickens when you see those headlines: murder spree of schoolgirl loner; boy, 13, rapes classmate; child, 10, stabs pensioner." So says narrator Anita Naidu, and she should know. At thirteen, Anita was the sole witness to London’s notorious cave murders of 1986, which left three children dead. Told seven years later to the police psychologist who interviewed her at the time of the killings, Anita’s story reveals the savagery of the schoolyard one chilling detail at a time until the truth of what actually happened reveals itself with startling ferocity. Set against the bustling, tourist-packed streets of historic Greenwich, this novel examines sinister events that happen, quite literally, right below the surface.

An audacious debut, The Dead of Summer is written in spare, evocative prose with remarkable psychological acuity and the daring to examine the dark, intensely fragile point between childhood and adolescence, and the morbid impulses of those mutable years.

Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan

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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.

Milkrun by Sarah Mlynowski

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milkrun\'milk run\ (plural) milkruns noun

1. a routine and often slow journey esp. taken from the delivery of milk 2. The process of dating to no avail why am I on the milkrun and not the express?!

Of all the ways to find myself Single Again, this has to be the worst. A "Dear Jackie" e-mail from my supposed boyfriend, who claimed to be "finding himself" in Thailand. Instead, he's found someone else. And dumped me.

But I, Jackie Norris, will bounce back! I will become Crazy Dating Girl and prove to Jilting Jeremy that I am over him! One snag: Why do all the guys I meet either have groping hands, lunatic tendencies or a worrying interest in putting up shelves? I need a man who wants to rip my clothes off, feed me pizza, then have stimulating, intelligent conversation.

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

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

"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What the finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.

Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina

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

In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let along secular sainthood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister was the exception. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple his regime. Saints and Villains gives us this exemplary life in a sweeping narrative that is bold in conception and utterly convincing in its power of imaginative reconstruction.

Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller

Category: Non-fiction - Autobiography
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly dog-eared cover, otherwise good
Price: RM15

The poignant autobiography of Arthur Miller, following his life from boyhood in New York to celebrity status. It includes numerous frank accounts, such as the first staging of "Death of a Salesman", and his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.

Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler

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Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer

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

The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know and love. This is a must-read for every Rumpole fan and a compelling invitation to new readers.

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier

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Alain-Fournier's bittersweet novel of youthful ardour and longing is the story of Meaulnes and his search for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, our search for the unobtainable and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

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Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love.

Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving -- and ultimately uplifting -- detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

Category: Non-fiction - Autobiography
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the English working class.”

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Category: Non-fiction - Autobiography
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s experiences.

When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson

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The Rubins are the perfect family. They're wonderfully happy and very glamorous. The mother, Claudia, is the ultimate Jewish matriarch: a powerful rabbi known for her charm, brains, and determination. Now this dynastic Jewish family is getting ready to marry off the perfect eldest son. History, community, and even gastronomy unite the guests lucky enough to attend this joyous occasion.

But when the groom -- one minute before exchanging vows -- bolts with the wrong woman, the myths that have defined this family take on darker overtones. Mendelson's astonishing eye for detail, as well as her just-right balance of plot and character, makes the unfolding of this story an uncommon treat. In a marvelously compressed style that also bursts with life, she reveals how all four adult Rubin children, and their parents, struggle with huge secrets, sexual frustration and sexual experimentation, and many betrayals.

Charlotte Mendelson opens a window on a realm rarely explored in British society: the complicated world of English Jewry. But to watch this seemingly blessed family drastically, disastrously fall apart before regaining balance is to understand that their struggles -- like all of ours -- are universal ones.

The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby

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The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha.

In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature. In The Tale of Murasaki, Liza Dalby has created a breathtaking fictionalized narrative of the life of this timeless poet–a lonely girl who becomes such a compelling storyteller that she is invited to regale the empress with her tales. The Tale of Murasaki is the story of an enchanting time and an exotic place. Whether writing about mystical rice fields in the rainy mountains or the politics and intrigue of the royal court, Dalby breathes astonishing life into ancient Japan.

The Dark Heart of Italy: Travels Through Time and Space Across Italy by Tobias Jones

Category: Non-fiction - Travel/Memoir
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM10

In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula.

Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi-in the words of a famous song-appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)?

The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.

Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankell

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

Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik's father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son concealed from her as she uncovers the links between his death, the African AIDS epidemic, and Western pharmaceutical interests, while those who dare help her are killed off.

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

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Published to extraordinary acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. She illuminates the pain of exile and the ambiguities of post-colonialism with a tapestry of colorful characters: an embittered old judge; Sai, his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter; a chatty cook; and the cook’s son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one miserable New York restaurant to another, trying to stay a step ahead of the INS. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai’s new-sprung romance with her handsome tutor, their lives descend into chaos. The cook witnesses India’s hierarchy being overturned and discarded. The judge revisits his past and his role in Sai and Biju’s intertwining lives. A story of depth and emotion, hilarity and imagination, The Inheritance of Loss tells a story of love, family, and loss.

Deja Dead by Kathy Reich

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

"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.

Her life is devoted to justice -- for those she never even knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern -- and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her -- her best friend and her own daughter -- in mortal danger. . . .