A Gathering of Angels by Katherine Valentine

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

In A Miracle for St. Cecilia’s, Katherine Valentine created a charming Connecticut town where ordinary people experience extraordinary things. Now in A Gathering of Angels the citizens of Dorsetville continue to discover the daily wonders of faith. 

While Father Flaherty toys with taking up kickboxing to trim his growing waistline, another town expansion proves more ominous: Barry Hornibrook, driven to build a riverfront hotel, turns to questionable sources for desperately needed money. But this is Dorsetville, where anything is possible—and by the time this beguiling tale is over, a tragic fire, a German shepherd, and an influx of dentists will all play a role in changing the community forever.

Full of delightful surprises, A Gathering of Angels proves to be another heart- warming tale of hope.

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM10

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.

Incendiary by Chris Cleave

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

When a massive suicide bomb explodes at a London soccer match a woman loses both her four-year-old son and her husband. But the bombing is only the beginning. In a voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, Incendiary is a stunning debut of one ordinary life blown apart by terror.

Jewel by Bret Lott

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Yellowed pages, Fold marks on front cover, Fold lines on spine.
Price: RM10

In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.

Codex by Lev Grossman

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to solve the mystery of the codex-to understand its significance to his wealthy clients, and to decipher the seeming parallels between the legend of the codex and an obsessive role-playing computer game that has absorbed him in the dark hours of the night.

Special Relationship by Robyn Sisman

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

Renowned London literary agent Annie Hamilton never forgot Jordan Hope. And now he's back. As the saxophone-playing United States presidential hopeful, Jordan is a constant reminder to Annie of their whirlwind love affair during the heady days of Oxford in the 1960s and of the secret she's kept ever since.

Comfortably married with three wonderful children, Annie thinks her life is complete. But her son Tom, now twenty-one years old, discovers Annie's secret and his own shocking connection to it. In tumult, Tom flees to Manhattan to try to unravel the past and confront the man who might be his father, with no regard for Jordan's delicate political situation. Desperate to explain, Annie races after Tom…and straight into the arms of the man she thought she'd never see again.

Just Friends by Robyn Sisman

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, sticker mark on back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Thirtysomethings Freya and Jack have been “just friends” for more than ten years. Of course, they’ve had their differences. Freya doesn’t approve of Jack’s taste for student teeny-boppers from Planet Bubblegum, and Jack has problems with Freya’s utter scorn for human frailty–especially his own.

So when Freya, dumped by her lawyer boyfriend, moves temporarily into Jack’s apartment, tensions simmer. They reach a boiling point when Jack agrees to act as Freya’s Significant Other at her step-sister’s society wedding. Now, old friends, best friends, just friends, are fighting like cats and dogs.

The Museum Guard by Howard Norman

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Small price sticker tear on back cover, slightly yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence of the museum with heated conversations that prove them to be "opposites at life." Away from the museum, DeFoe courts the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Everything changes when Imogen, inspired by the arrival of a painting, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam, abandons Halifax for the ennobled life she imagines for the painting's subject—even amid the growing perilousness of being a Jew in Amsterdam. Set against the impending events of World War II, The Museum Guard, the second book of his Canadian trilogy, explores the mysteries of identity and self-determination, and the desire to step out of the ordinary into an alluring and dangerous sphere of action.

Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham

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

Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man

Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood

Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed.

In Cocktails for Three, Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

The Woman & the Ape by Peter Hoeg

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, otherwise good
Price: RM10

An hour after nightfall the ape rose, wrapped an arm around Madelene, parted the screen of leaves at a shadowed spot, and leaped, almost horizontally, into what seemed to Madelene to be a pitch-black void. Madelene Burden is a Danish beauty who lives in an alcoholic haze while her husband, Adam, a behavioral scientist, dreams of restoring the London Zoo to its original glory. Hes about to get his chance with Erasmus, a 300-pound gorilla unlike any other. But a spark ignites between Madelene and Erasmus and begins a love affair as emotionally and erotically charged as any male-female relationship can be and a revelation that stuns the world.

The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

Category: Non-Fiction/Memoir
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fold line on front cover, otherwise good
Price: RM10

After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers cling to their mother's brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then the family is rounded up, deported to Auschwitz, and separated. Now Rive is alone.

At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittelsteine and Grafenort, Rive vows to live, and to hope - for mama, for her brothers, for the millions of other victims of the nightmare of the Holocaust. And through determination and courage, and unexpected small acts of kindness, she does live - to write the unforgettable memoir that is a testament to the strenght of the human spirit.

Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and dog-eared cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is separated at birth by accident. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. Sons of Fortune is as much the story of the making of these two men—and how they eventually find each other—as it is the chronicle of a nation in transition.

Man on Fire by AJ Quinnell

Book 1

Book 2

Two separate books.

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition:
Book 1; Wet mark on bottom front cover, slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Book 2; Yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10 (price for one book)

Creasy - a rugged, burned-out mercenary... When he takes the job as a bodyguard for the young daughter of an Italian industrialist he is awakened to new life by a beguiling human touch - until the unspeakable atrocity occurs... The child is kidnapped by violent terrorists and Creasy is thrown into a ferocious world of treachery and turmoil. Filled with a single-minded rage, he fights for their lives, whatever the cost - and is transformed, as never before, into the terrifying killing machine he was trained to be.

Snap Shot by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Among the dozen photographers from the world's press working in Vietnam, David Munger was outstanding. But why did he pack up, desert, vanish? No one knew. And what was his connection with the violence, vendettas and complex web of secrets that preceded the raid a decade later in distant Tammuz? Snap Shot is a story of murder and perversion, bribery and blackmail, and occasionally, of great love and courage. It is the story of a great photographer who descends into a nightmare, and of his struggle to climb back out.

In the Name of the Father by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

The Kremlin has decided to assassinate the Pope, and this time ensure an efficient job. In the Vatican, three Clerics learn of the threat and plan a pre-emptive strike. It becomes a game of poker between the KGB and the Vatican Secret Service. The single stake is the life of the Pope; or the Soviet President.

Not just faith against efficiency; but vengeance allied to finely honed skill. Can this combination breach the fortress Kremlin? Or will the cloistered Vatican give up the life of Pope?

The Perfect Kill by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, small tear on front cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Three days before Christmas in 1988,a bomb blew Pan Am 103 out of the sky over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all passengers and crew. The wife and four year old daughter of Creasy were amongst the passengers. Seeking his personal vengeance, Creasy finds the backup of power-a US Senator, whose wife also died on Pan Am 103: and of youth-an eighteen year old orphan called Michael. Ruthlessly and relentlessly, Creasy trains Michael into becoming a man in his own image. Trains him...for the perfect kill.

Black Horn by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

In Zimbabwe a young American woman is shot dead by a sniper at her camp on the bank of the Zambezi River. In Hong Kong, Lucy Kwok, a Chinese air hostess, returns from Tokyo to find her father, mother and brother have been brutally murdered. The killings are linked - to Africa.

Ex-mercenary Creasy is hired to find the American women's killers, and when Lucy Kwok discovers that the truth behind her family's death also lies in Zimbabwe, a fateful meeting is set in motion.

Message from Hell by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, browned pages
Price: RM10

The latest Creasy adventure takes our hero to Vietnam and Cambodia, ostensibly on a mission to rescue a US serviceman taken prisoner twenty-six years earlier during the Vietnam war. In reality, however, the mission is a decoy organised by a sadistic Eurasain woman, Connie Crum, who is a high-ranking officer of the Khmer Rouge. She has long harboured a grudge against Creasy who was responsible for the death of her father. A cat and mouse game between the two principles ensues, as each tries to out guess the other, resulting in a climactic shoot-out in a heavily mined and guarded Buddhist temple hidden in the Cambodian jungle.

The Blue Ring by AJ Quinnell

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

Creasy, a veteran mercenary, had found solitude on a small, Mediterranean island, far from the violent conflicts of his past profession. That solitude is broken when he is confronted by Juliet, a thirteen-year-old heroine addict whose life has been almost destroyed by 'The Blue Ring', a powerful, worldwide cartel dealing in drugs, prostitution and the use of Satanism to pursue their ends. Now Creasy has a new mission; to hunt down the evil men who trade in death and degradation... and destroy their paymaster, the evil genius at the sentre of an internation web of corruption.

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.