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Sunday, October 23, 2011

A Hollywood Ending : Robyn Sisman

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Spoilt Hollywood star Paige Carson flees to London when her career and personal life hit disaster. By accepting a stage role in a Shakespeare play she intends to prove that she is a real actress and to find herself a real man in between rehearsals.

But can she survive without her entourage?

How will she get places without her driver?

Who’s going to, like, pay for stuff?

And what’s with English men, especially her disdainful neighbor, Ed?

Either this is the biggest mistake of her life, or Paige is going to have to learn fast to stand on her own immaculately pedicured feet.


“Heart-poundingly romantic and achingly funny.” Company

Dewey : Vicki Myron

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On the coldest morning of the year, Vicki Myron found a tiny, bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked, and her life and the town of Spencer, Iowa would never be the same.

Vicki was a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm and alcoholic, abusive husband. But her biggest challenge as the new head librarian in Spencer was to raise the spirits of a small, out-of-the-way town mired deep in the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Dewey, as the townspeople named the kitten, quickly grew into a strutting, adorable library cat whose antics kept patrons in stitches, and whose sixth sense about those in need created hundreds of deep and loving relationships.

As his fame grew, fans drove hundreds of miles to meet Dewey, and people all over the world fell in love with him.

Through it all, Dewey remained a loyal companion, a beacon of hope not just for Vicki, but for the entire town of Spencer as it slowly, steadily pulled itself up from the worst financial crisis in its long history. Dewey won hearts and proved to everyone he encountered that unconditional love comes in many forms.

Girl From Mars : Julie Cohen

Price: RM15.00
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Heaven, Texas : Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Love Rules : Freya North

Price: RM15.00
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Status: Sold


"When it comes to love, should you listen to your head, your heart or your best friend?"

Thea Luckmore, a composed and dedicated massage therapist believes in love, the magic spark of true, old-fashioned love. She just has to fall head over heels, or rather heart over head.

However, her best friend, Alice Heggarty, a spirited and successful magazine publisher, has always been a slave to lust though invariably it ends in tears.

Turning 30, as yet another disastrous relationship ends, Alice makes a decision. It's time to marry and she knows just the man who would make an excellent husband.

For Thea, a chance encounter on Primrose Hill ignites that elusive spark she's preoccupied with. Saul Mundy promises to be the perfect fit and Thea finds herself falling deeply in love and loving it.

But, though newly-wed Alice encourages Thea to settle down, Alice herself finds that she's not as keen as she thought on playing by the rules. She starts to break them left, right and centre... At the same time, Thea's world is shaken to the core.

Love. Sex. Fidelity. Friendship. What's it all about?

The Wedding Party : Sophie King

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A perfect wedding day - or a perfect disaster?

Becky Hastings is not too happy about her prospect of her father, Geoff, remarrying. Especially since he’s only known his partner Monique for three months. And the news stirs up complex emotions in his ex-wife Helen.

Besides the stress of the wedding, Becky, a magazine journalist, is faced with the pressures of raising a young family and holding down her high-powered job.

Her old school friend Janie is asked to organize the wedding. Except that hapless Janie isn’t great on detail – the reason why she was sacked from her previous job.

There’s also Mel, the vicar who is distracted by events in her own life – not to mention an unemployed husband and two tricky teens. The wedding seems destined to be a disaster but fate has some other ideas…

“Irresistibly funny . . . This is a brilliantly observed book about how life's routines can be interrupted at any moment by tragedy, a hilarious incident or a new love coming into your life with a wallop.” - V Magazine


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The Perfect Man : Sheila O'Flanagan

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Love The One You're With : Emily Giffin

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Status: Sold

"If you can't forget the one who got away, can you... love the one you're with?"

A lot of things happened before I married Andy... and one of them was Leo. The one I would finally get over. Then see again, years later...

For one hundred days, Ellen believed she had done the right thing - married the man of her dreams and embarked on 'happy ever after'. But then she met Leo again. From the outside, it looked like two strangers making fleeting eye contact. But inside was a very different story.

Inside, Ellen was reeling as, suddenly, her whole world was turned upside down...

"Perfect for the Friends Reunited generation... Read it if you've ever wondered "what if"" - Eve

My Best Friend's Girl : Dorothy Koomson

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Status: Sold Out

"What would you do for the friend who broke your heart?"

Best friends Kamryn Matika and Adele Brannon thought nothing could come between them – until Adele did the unthinkable and slept with Kamryn’s fiance, Nate. Worse still, she got pregnant and had his child.

When Kamryn discovered the truth about their betrayal she vowed never to see any of them again. Two years later, Kamryn receives a letter from Adele asking her to visit her in hospital. Adele is dying and begs Kamryn to adopt her daughter, Tegan. With a great job and a hectic social life, the last thing Kamryn needs is a five year old to disrupt things. Especially not one who reminds her of Nate. But with no one else to take care of Tegan and Adele fading fast, does she have any other choice?

So begins a difficult journey that leads Kamryn towards forgiveness, love, responsibility and, ultimately, a better understanding of herself.


"Both funny and moving, this will have you reaching for the tissues . . . A heartbreaking tale." - CLOSER
"I was laughing and crying from page one. Koomson deals with grown up issues: friendship, death, betrayal and forgiveness - a very moving read." - Adele Parks

Velocity : Dean Koontz

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"If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond school teacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours."

After a usual night of bar-tending, Billy Wiles' typical ordinary life ceases to exist. He finds a typewritten note on his wind shield giving him an odd choice. It said if he went to the police, a schoolteacher would be killed and if he didn't go to the police, an elderly woman would be killed. The note gave him a time table of six hours.


At first, Billy wonders if this is some sick joke until a blond schoolteacher is found murdered. He is faced with more notes, more choices, and more deadlines, and dead bodies. The killer has forced Billy to play his game of choice. If Billy tries to go to the police now, he will be arrested for each murder. The killer has placed evidence at each crime scene proclaiming Billy as the murderer.

Still, Billy thinks about taking his chances with the police in order to stop this maniacal killer. Until his lovely fiancé's life is threatened.


Although Barbara lay in a light coma, she is the love of his life and his reason for living. He will protect her at any cost, even if it means he must kill to save her. He begins to investigate who the killer may be. His goal is to reach him before Barbara becomes his final victim.

Showdown : Tilly Bagshawe

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Feisty Milly Lockwood Groves is stuck at her parents' stud farm, her dream of making it as a jockey in tatters. Forbidden from riding after an accident, Milly must watch her odious brother Jasper pursuing the career she so badly wanted.

Then devastatingly attractive Bobby Cameron arrives. Last in the line of an old cowboy family and heir to the Highwood ranch in California, he has every woman on the racing circuit swooning. When he offers Milly the chance to work on his ranch, she jumps at the opportunity.

Will it be the answer to her prayers? Or far more than she bargained for...?

"Pure guilty pleasure" - Heat

Nobody's Baby But Mine : Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Status: Sold

Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which means she must find someone very special to father her child.

Someone a little bit... well... stupid.


Cal Bonner, legendary sports star, seems like the perfect choice. But his good looks are deceiving. Dr. Jane learns too late that Cal is a lot smarter than he lets on - and he's not about to be used and abandoned by a brainy baby-mad schemer...

"Funny, sexy, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse!" - Elizabeth Lowell

Mummy, Take Me Home : David Leslie

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Before I Forget : Melissa Hill

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“If you could hold on to just one memory, what would it be?”

One morning on her way to work, Abby Ryan walks under a ladder and is knocked unconscious by a piece of falling debris. When she wakes up in a hospital, she discovers that as a result of the injury, her long-term memory may be lost for good. Although at first devastated, Abby eventually resolves to use the time she has left to gather the memories of a lifetime; life-affirming experiences so powerful she hopes they just might arrest her memory loss.

With the help of family and friends, she makes a list and sets out to do things she’s always wanted to do and visit the places she’s always wanted to see. She bombards her brain with the best experiences life has to offer – experiences so powerful they should be absolutely unforgettable.

Then, in a year that sees her spend a magical Christmas Eve in Manhattan, gamble a small fortune in Vegas, race a Formula One car and experience a haunting Puccini opera at the Arena di Verona, the one thing Abby didn’t pan to do was fall in love – something that turns out to be the most unforgettable experience of all.

But, will it be enough?


"Feels as good as a gossip with your mates..." - New Woman
"More twists and turns than a roller coaster - a cracker of a read." - Mail on Sunday

Men From The Boys : Tony Parsons

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Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job as producer of the cult radio show, A Clip Round the Ear. But Harry is about to turn forty and his ex-wife is back in town. Soon it could be time to kiss the good life goodbye...

When Harry's fourteen-year-old son Pat moves out, Harry's perfect life seems to be falling apart. Into the chaos of his life stroll two old soldiers who fought alongside Harry's late father in The Battle of Monte Cassino in the spring of 1944.

Will these two gallant old men help Harry to reclaim his son, his family, his wife and his life? And can they show Harry Silver what it really means to be a man?

"Tony Parsons gets inside the heads and hearts of modern times." - The Times
"Every bit as engaging and funny as Man and Boy" - Jane Fallon

Guilty Pleasures : Tasmina Perry

Price: RM15.00
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Status: Sold

Kiss An Angel : Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Condition: Brand new
Status: Sold

How did pretty socialite Daisy Devereaux find herself in this fix? She can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her...

Alex Mark, however, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little heiress. As humourless as he is handsome, he drags the irrepressible Daisy away from her uptown life and sets out to bring her drown a peg or two.

Except it won't be as easy as he thinks. This man without a soul has met a woman who's nothing but heart. Will vows spoken in haste shatter... or offer the promise of love everlasting?


"No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips" - Jayne Anne Krentz

Friday Nights : Joanna Trollope

Price: RM15.00
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Condition: Brand new hardcover!
Status: Available

Frenemies : Megan Crane

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Gus Curtis has been avoiding growing up for a long time. But she's almost thirty and official adulthood is just around the corner. So she's come up with a plan and it's all going to be fine.

Until she walks in on her perfect boyfriend lip-locked with her oldest friend and her carefully planned world collapses like badly cooked souffle.

Determined to win back her man, Gus drinks far too much, indulges in some ad hoc karaoke and loses what's left of her dignity in a series of public slanging matches. Before long, her loyal friends have had enough and she's finding consolation in the arms of the one boy she really should have stayed away from...

"Brilliant, funny, believable and gripping. I couldn't put it down." - Marian Keyes

Getting Mad, Getting Even : Annie Sanders

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"Revenge - sweet, satisfying and best served cold...?"

Georgie and Flick are a girl's best friends. Their agency, Domestic Angels, provides invaluable help to armies of harassed women. After years of hard work, Georgie and Flick have built a small but grateful clientèle - doing everything from booking the plumber to replacing dead hamsters.

Then one evening, they are visited by a pale, nervous-looking woman who makes the strangest request yet. Her husband has combined a take-over with a leg-over. Would Georgie and Flick help her get her own back?

It isn't long before word gets out. Inundated with requests from angry wives, Georgie and Flick begin to wonder whether all these men are really as black as they are painted.

Meanwhile, the disgruntled husband of a client has rumbled them. It may be that they aren't the only masters of revenge after all...


This Heart of Mine : Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Molly Somerville has grown up in the shadow of her beautiful and glamorous big sister. Phoebe is beautiful, blissfully married, and the owner of the most successful professional football team in America. Molly is a struggling children's writer who earned her reputation for trouble even before she gave away her fifteen-million dollar inheritance. And Molly's long-term crush on her sister's star player, Kevin Tucker, doesn't help matters - especially as the gorgeous, model-chasing hunk can't even remember her name.

But one fateful weekend sees Molly and Kevin marooned together at a remote cabin. The experience is life-changing but the results are disastrous. Before the dust settles, Kevin's in trouble with his boos. And Molly's in even deeper trouble with her heart...

"Witty romance" - Time Magazine

2-in-1 West End Girls & Operation Sunshine : Jenny Colgan

Price: RM19.00
(Retail price: RM49.90)
Condition: Brand new omnibus
Status: Available


WEST END GIRLS

The streets of London are paved with gold… allegedly. They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something with their lives, and as far as they are concerned, the place to get noticed is London.

Out of the blue, they discover they have a grandmother living in Chelsea – and when she has to go into hospital, they find themselves flat-sitting on the King’s Road. But, as they discover, it’s not as easy to become It Girls as they’d imagined, and West End boys aren’t at all like Hugh Grant…


OPERATION SUNSHINE

Evie needs a good holiday. Not just because she's been working all hours in her job as a receptionist for two high-powered plastic surgeons, but also because every holiday she has ever been on in her life has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting. Why can't she have a normal holiday, like other people seem to have? Some sun, sand, sea and (hopefully) sex? So when her employers invite her to attend a conference with them in the south of France, she can't believe her luck. It's certainly going to be the holiday of a lifetime?

But not quite in the way Evie imagines!

Marley A Dog Like No Other : Josh Grogan

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Meet Marley, a yellow furball of a puppy who quickly grows into a large, rowdy Labrador retriever. Marley is always getting into trouble: you could see he's the world's worst dog!

But for those who love him, he's a dog like no other; bringing joy to his family, as he bounds through life teaching them about what really matters. In the author's own words, here is the heart-warming and unforgettable story of the world's most loveable and exuberant dog!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Secrets of a Shoe Addict : Beth Harbison

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Life's Too Short to Frost a Cupcake : Rosie Wilde

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It should have been a normal Monday, just like any other. But if it had been, Alice would not now be standing at the airport, thinking her boyfriend was about to propose, when all he had in mind was a spreadsheet for shared expenses...

Alice has a steady job at Carmichael Music, a reliable boyfriend, a nice flat and a cleaning habit she can't just kick. But everything changes one Monday morning. Her kindly boss isn't there, but sends a mysterious text advising her to watch her back. And a new boss has arrived from the American head office: the extremely scary Phoebe Carmichael... Alice is sure she is about to be fired in a "streamlining" exercise - instead she's offered a dream job in America. Her brief: to persuade the once massively successful, now reclusive, recovering alcoholic singer songwriter Wyatt Brown to record a new album.

So Alice is off to New York - only New York turns out to be Ohio. And when Alice finally reaches Wyatt's ranch, she mistakes the music legend for a hired hand... When Wyatt makes it clear he has no intention of making a new album, all Alice wants to do is get the first flight out of Ohio. She certainly isn't going to stay; she isn't going to get involved in the Dairy Prize at the Ohio State Show; and she definitely won't be entering a competition for Best Cupcake Froster in Town...

"If you've been looking for a fun (and funny) sweet, romantic, summer read of the chick lit variety, look no further..." - CUPCAKES TAKE THE CAKE

2-in-1 The Chocolate Run & The Cupid Effect : Dorothy Koomson

Price: RM19.00
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Condition: Brand new 2-in-1 omnibus
Status: Sold


THE CUPID EFFECT

“One of the funniest, most unusual books you’ll ever read. Be careful, the book may change your life (and viewing habits).”
– Mark Barrowcliffe

Ceri D’Altroy watches too much Oprah Winfrey – and it’s having serious repercussions. Bored with London life and writing yet another “have a perfect orgasm” feature, she has decided to take Oprah’s advice and follow her heart’s desire. Going back to college might not be everyone’s dream but all Ceri’s ever wanted to do is lecture…

Unfortunately, Ceri’s new start seems to involve disrupting lives: within days she’s reunited a happily uncoupled couple, encouraged her new flatmate to do something about his unrequited love, and outed the secret relationship of her two colleagues. Only, while Ceri’s playing Cupid for others, the highlight of her social calendar is trying a new hair conditioner. Something needs to be done, but can Ceri stick to her new vow to give up her accidental match-making for good…?

A delicious comedy about love, life and following your heart.


THE CHOCOLATE RUN

Amber Salpone doesn’t mean to keep ending up in bed with her friend Greg Walterson, but she can’t help herself. And every time it ‘just happens’ their secret affair moves closer to being a real relationship, which is a big problem when he’s a womaniser and she’s a commitment-phobe. Slowly but surely, Amber has to confront the fact that chocolate can’t cure everything and sometimes running away isn’t an option …


Best Friends Forever : Jennifer Weiner

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"Some bonds can never be broken..."


Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat.

Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents' house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She's just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. "Something horrible has happened," Val tells Addie, "and you're the only one who can help."

Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It's about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together.

Babyville : Jane Green

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Status: Sold

Thanks for the Memories : Cecilia Ahern

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After a horrible accident, Joyce Conway is trying to put her life back together. Her life and her marriage are in pieces, but Joyce tries to get back to living a normal life, despite advice from others. But something is stopping her. She keeps having dreams of a beautiful blond haired girl, of places she has never been. She knows things that she shouldn't about art, about architecture. She sees a beautiful woman in her dreams. Joyce sees and knows things she should not know. And it all started after her accident. Wanting to get to the bottom of things, to discover the reason for her new-found knowledge, Joyce tracks down her blood donor…

Justin Hitchcock is a lonely man. He hasn’t dated since his marriage broke up. Instead, he contends himself with touring universities, talking about art, about the only thing he has passion for in life. He knows he’s lonely, knows that he needs to heal.

What he doesn’t know is that his life is about to change.

When a beautiful woman convinces Justin to give blood for the universities blood drive, Justin has no idea that giving away a few drops of his blood will change his life forever. He has no idea that by giving something from his heart, he may receive the very things he needs to heal it…

One Fifth Avenue : Candace Bushnell

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"Where your ZIP CODE is as important as your HANDBAG..."


From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City - this time, through the lens of where they live.

One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established - or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), each person's game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building.


Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York's Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell's New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past: They thirst for power, for social prominence, and for marriages that are successful--at least to the public eye. But Bushnell is an original, and One Fifth Avenue is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

From Sex and the City through four successive novels, Bushnell has revealed a gift for tapping into the zeitgeist of any New York minute and, as one critic put it, staying uncannily "just the slightest bit ahead of the curve."

Shopaholic & Sister : Sophie Kinsella

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Status: Sold Out

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 soulmate. 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?