Hope you will like the book we bought for you this update :D.
Rose Madder by Stephen KingSynopsis:
Rosie Daniels flees from her husband, Norman after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. During one bout of violence, Norman caused Rosie to miscarry their only child. Escaping to a distant city, Rosie establishes a new life and forges new relationships. Norman Daniels, a police officer with a reputation for cruelty, uses his law-enforcement connections to track his wayward wife.
ISBN: 0-340-64014710994-6
Condition: This book was bought at a bookshop that sells second hand book. Its old but still readble. :D
Status: Available
Price: RM5.00
Condition: This book was bought at a bookshop that sells second hand book. Its old but still readble. :D
Status: Available
Price: RM5.00
Bag of Bones by Stephen KingSynopsis:
Several years after his wife's death, novelist Mike Noonan still suffers writers block. A dream inspires him to return to the couple's summer retreat in western Maine, a lakeside house called Sara Laughs. Shortly after arriving, Noonan is caught in the middle of a custody battle involving the daughter of an attractive young widow and the child's enormously wealthy grandfather. He also discovers that Sara Laughs is haunted and that his late wife, Joanna, still has something to tell him.
ISBN: 0-671-02423-XCondition: In good condition.
Status: Available
Price: RM10.00
Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownSynopsis:
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.
Condition: In good condition
Status: Available
Price: RM10.00
Snow Flowers and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeSynopsis:
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan is set in 19th-century China where women are kept secluded and never intermingle with the men. Lily has beautiful feet, once they're broken and bound, which should attract her a desirable husband. To improve her chances of attracting a wealthy man, her matchmaker pairs her with a laotong -- "old sames" -- a girl from a wealthy family named Snow Flower. Old sames are best friends for life and their relationship is closer and more important than their husbands. The secluded women communicate via a secret language, call nu shu, and Lily and Snow Flower write it on a fan they use for correspondence. Nu shu is considered an unimportant language by men, so they never learn it. Lily and Snow Flower grow very close over the years, until Lily misinterprets a letter from Snow Flower, threatening her relationship with her only friend. Lisa See's novel has received positive reviews for its evocative descriptions of a culture long forgotten. The USA Today says, "If there is a sleeper summer hit, it should be this story, which draws you into a time not as ancient as it seems, touching your heart and breaking it at the same time."
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan is set in 19th-century China where women are kept secluded and never intermingle with the men. Lily has beautiful feet, once they're broken and bound, which should attract her a desirable husband. To improve her chances of attracting a wealthy man, her matchmaker pairs her with a laotong -- "old sames" -- a girl from a wealthy family named Snow Flower. Old sames are best friends for life and their relationship is closer and more important than their husbands. The secluded women communicate via a secret language, call nu shu, and Lily and Snow Flower write it on a fan they use for correspondence. Nu shu is considered an unimportant language by men, so they never learn it. Lily and Snow Flower grow very close over the years, until Lily misinterprets a letter from Snow Flower, threatening her relationship with her only friend. Lisa See's novel has received positive reviews for its evocative descriptions of a culture long forgotten. The USA Today says, "If there is a sleeper summer hit, it should be this story, which draws you into a time not as ancient as it seems, touching your heart and breaking it at the same time."
Condition: In good condition
Status: Available
Price: RM12.00
Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur GoldenSynopsis:
Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. Through her eyes, we see the decadent heart of Gion--the geisha district of Kyoto--with its marvelous teahouses and theaters, narrow back alleys, ornate temples, and artists' streets. And we witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. But as World War II erupts and the geisha houses are forced to close, Sayuri, with little money and even less food, must reinvent herself all over again to find a rare kind of freedom on her own terms.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuances and vivid metaphor, of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos. And though the story is rich with detail and a vast knowledge of history, it is the transparent, seductive voice of Sayuri that the reader remembers.
Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. Through her eyes, we see the decadent heart of Gion--the geisha district of Kyoto--with its marvelous teahouses and theaters, narrow back alleys, ornate temples, and artists' streets. And we witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. But as World War II erupts and the geisha houses are forced to close, Sayuri, with little money and even less food, must reinvent herself all over again to find a rare kind of freedom on her own terms.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuances and vivid metaphor, of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos. And though the story is rich with detail and a vast knowledge of history, it is the transparent, seductive voice of Sayuri that the reader remembers.
Condition: In good condition
Status: Available
Price: RM12.00
Empress Orchid by Anchee MinSynopsis:
From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together.
In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world.
From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together.
In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world.
Condition: In good condition
Status: Available
Price: RM12.00
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Synopsis:
The Magician's Nephew
The Magician's Nephew
Polly Plummer and Digory Ketterley seem to be average children in London when „Mr Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street“ (that is, the end of the 19th century). They are neighbours and find themselves one day, as kids usually do, crawling through several attics. At that time houses were still connected between their attics and you could get to other houses attics’ if you wanted to. What they did not know that they would end up in a room at the top of the next house where Digory’s uncle Andrew lived. And this very uncle traps them, or Polly to be more exact, into touching rings he has with them and the moment Polly touches them she disappears. What Uncle Andrew did not explain before is that he had laid hands on a box in which dust from the lost island of Atlantis was found and he had found a way to make this into rings. With these rings he hoped to be able to go to a different country, a country not on our planet. He had sent a guinea-pig first and it had worked. There was only one problem: How could you get it back?
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrode
Shortly after the Second the World War four children are being sent to the country to protect them from the air-raids in London. They are the Pevensie sons and daughters by the names of Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan who have to stay in the house of an old Professor whose name is Kirke. It is while playing hide-and-seek in the large house that Lucy, the youngest, hides in a room where there is only a wardrobe full of cloaks and it is there that she finds another way to Narnia. Made out of the wood of the magic apple tree in the garden of the Ketterley’s it is a portal to that strange country - and Professor Kirke is none other than Digory Ketterley himself. However, as yet, the children have never heard of it - except for Lucy.
The Horse and His Boy
To the south of Narnia lies friendly Archenland and south of that again lies a desert. Crossing that you come into the strange country of Calormen where the Tarkaan rule the land under the reign of the Tisroc who lives in the great city of Tashbaan. Far away from the capital of that city lives a young boy called Shasta with Arsheesh, the fisherman and works hard for him, day anyd night. On one night one of the ruling Tarkaan passes by and stays for the night with his war-horse and it is by mere accident that Shasta overhears their talk. The Tarkaan wants to buy Shasta from the fisherman and it turns out that Shasta is not a Calormen. He arrived as a boy in a little boat from the sea, guarded by a knight who had died from thirst in that boat.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrode
Shortly after the Second the World War four children are being sent to the country to protect them from the air-raids in London. They are the Pevensie sons and daughters by the names of Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan who have to stay in the house of an old Professor whose name is Kirke. It is while playing hide-and-seek in the large house that Lucy, the youngest, hides in a room where there is only a wardrobe full of cloaks and it is there that she finds another way to Narnia. Made out of the wood of the magic apple tree in the garden of the Ketterley’s it is a portal to that strange country - and Professor Kirke is none other than Digory Ketterley himself. However, as yet, the children have never heard of it - except for Lucy.
The Horse and His Boy
To the south of Narnia lies friendly Archenland and south of that again lies a desert. Crossing that you come into the strange country of Calormen where the Tarkaan rule the land under the reign of the Tisroc who lives in the great city of Tashbaan. Far away from the capital of that city lives a young boy called Shasta with Arsheesh, the fisherman and works hard for him, day anyd night. On one night one of the ruling Tarkaan passes by and stays for the night with his war-horse and it is by mere accident that Shasta overhears their talk. The Tarkaan wants to buy Shasta from the fisherman and it turns out that Shasta is not a Calormen. He arrived as a boy in a little boat from the sea, guarded by a knight who had died from thirst in that boat.
Condition: In good condition
Status: Available
Price: RM12.00
Note: All synopsis are taken from the reviews and synopsis from the respective website.
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