Friday, July 11, 2008

Piano Method Etude 6

Item SOLD
1. Keiko Seino On My Journey
2. Naomi Nakamura Dash, My Pony
3. Hitomi Yamada Etude
4. Yuka Fujiwara Quarrel (from Suite "Friends")
5. Keiko Nishimoto Etude
6. Naoko Nasuno Etude
7. Ai Kotani Train
8. Ako Sato Stormy Ocean
9. Hiroko Matsuzaki Working Bees
10. Mariko Sato Spring Wind
11. Mariko Sato Farewell
12. Yumiko Muraoka Etude
13. Kanako Sato Etude
14. Keiko Ego Etude
15. Mika Fukuda Crystal Tone
16. Yuko Okabe Etude
17. Mayumi Yamaguchi Snow
18. Junko Taniguchi Land of the Round and Land of the Tall

Yamaha Music Foundation
RM8

Piano Method Etude 8

Item SOLD
1. Nozomi Kishimoto Etude
2. Tomomi Fukui Etude
3. Kazue Suwa Etude
4. Yoshiko Nosaka Etude
5. Rie Motonishi Etude
6. Miho Nishinaka Etude
7. Hayumi Takahashi Etude
8. Midori Fujioka Etude
9. Rie Yamamoto Etude
10. Takayuki Kobayashi Etude
11. Chizu Okashige Etude
12. Kaori Asai Etude
13. Junko Tezuka Etude
14. Mie Sumioka Etude

Yamaha Music Foundation
RM8

Piano Method Etude 7

Item SOLD
1. Sakiko Ito Etude
2. Masahiro Ota Etude
3. Chiaki Kato Etude
4. Koji matsubara Etude
5. Mayami Yamaguchi Joyful Moment
6. Mariko Sako joyful Marathon
7. Mariko Sako Riding on the Wind
8. Midori Ikai Etude
9. Kazue Numata Etude
10. Kiyoko Tanaka Etude
11. Yuki Kanehira Etude
12. Masaki Asai Etude
13. Yukiko Shimizu Etude
14. Kazue Numata Etude
15. Atsuko Hirata Etude
16. Junko Kaminaga Etude
17. Tomoko Harada Etude
18. Michiko Kanbashira Etude
19. Keiko Suzuki Butterflies
20. Chizuru Okashige Etude

Yamaha Music Foundation
RM8

The Best of Sentimental Hits Vol 2

The Best of Sentimental Hits Vol 2

List of Music
1. The Righteous BrothersUnchained Melody
2. Bette Midler From a distance
3. Whitney Houston Miracle
4. Stevie B Because I Love you (The Postman song)
5. Mariah Carey Vision of Love
6. Alias More than words can say
7. Elton John Sacrifice
8. Wilson Phillips Release Me
9. Natalie Cole Starting Over Again
10. James Ingram I don't have the heart
11. Linda Ronstadt All My Life
12. David Foster My Grown-up Christmas List

Penerbit Muzikal
Price RM3

The Best of Sentimental Hits Vol 1

List of Music
1. Phil Collins Another Day in Paradise
2. Linda Ronstadt Don't know much
3. Gloria Estefan Don't wanna lose you
4. Simply Red If you don't know me by now
5. Roxette Listen to your heart
6. Natalie Cole Miss you like Crazy
7. Richard Marx Right here waiting
8. Living in a box Room in your heart
9. Surface Shower me with your love
10. Karyn White Superwoman
11. Cliff Richard The best of me
12. Martika Toy Soldiers

Penerbit Muzikal
Price RM3

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The Interpretation of Murder (Paperback) by by Jed Rubenfeld (Author)


ISBN-10: 0312427050


Synopsis
A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive "tour de force" inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protege and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartment overlooking the city, and another society beauty narrowly escapes the same fate, the mayor of New York calls upon Freud to use his revolutionary new ideas to help the surviving victim recover her memory of the attack, and solve the crime. But nothing about the attacks - or about the surviving victim, Nora - is quite as it seems. And there are those in very high places determined to stop the truth coming out, and Freud's startling theories taking root on American soil.

From the Publisher
The Interpretation of Murder is an intricately plotted literary thriller
based on true events - the story of Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to New York.
Around this kernel of fact, Jed Rubenfeld has spun a spectacularly
entertaining fiction centred upon murder. As fiendishly ingenious a
thriller as you could hope to read, The Interpretation of Murder cuts to
the heart of what it is that makes Freud's ideas so fascinating and hugely
engaging. It's also the ultimate New York story: the construction of the
skyscrapers, glittering high society salons, Chinatown opium dens, brothels
and asylums, all have their part to play in his dazzling vision of
Manhattan. A compelling tour through the dark places of a city, and of the
human mind, The Interpretation of Murder is a storytelling triumph, and
marks the debut of a major new talent.


About the Author

Jed Rubenfeld studied Philosophy and Psychology at Princeton, Law at Harvard, and acting at the Juilliard School of Drama. A chaired professor of constitutional and criminal law at Yale, he has been described as 'the most elegant legal writer of his generation'.

The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith (Paperback)


ISBN-10: 0349118051
Price : RM17

Synopsis
The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of intimate moral issues: she edits a philosophical journal and spends a great deal of her time considering how to improve the lives of those around her. There is her housekeeper Grace, whose future she must secure; her niece Cat, who is embarking on a new relationship with a dubious workaholic mummy's boy; and even an American couple newly arrived in Edinburgh on a tour. And then there is Jamie, Cat's ex-boyfriend, a handsome, gifted musician fourteen years Isabel's junior, with whom she is slowly and hopelessly falling in love. Intensely thoughtful and consistently entertaining, THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TO RAIN is shot through with compassion and unassuming intelligence.

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz



ISBN-10: 0007226586
The Times
The master of our darkest dreams


Synopsis
The third Odd Thomas novel from Dean Koontz, following 'Odd Thomas' and 'Forever Odd'. Odd Thomas is looking for peace. But in the silence and snow of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still ! Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. The tragic events that took the love of his life have led Odd from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. As ever where Odd Thomas goes strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him -- as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey. Could this be why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence? They prowl the halls, suggesting terror to come. But what form will it take? And how will Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?

Regina's Song by David Eddings


ISBN-10: 0345448995
Price: RM17

Product Description
“A STORY OF MURDER AND REVENGE . . . Outstandingly well paced and tightly plotted, the novel also stands out in its handling of various psychological themes.”
–Booklist

Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can’t tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: a vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatized that she turns totally inward, incapable of telling anyone what happened or even who she is. She remains lost to the world, until the day Mark, a family friend, comes to visit–and the young woman utters her first intelligible word.

As she recovers, still with no memory of the past, her nightmares grow steadily more frightful, followed by wild fits of hysteria and dark mood swings. Her strange outbursts seem to coincide with the grisly serial murders that have begun plaguing Seattle. Could she be the killer? Determined to dispel his suspicion, Mark stakes out her home. The unholy sight he witnesses one night will haunt his soul for the rest of his life. . . .

Download Description
The beloved Eddings writing team, coauthors of the bestselling Belgariad and Malloreon fantasy series, now turn their creative storytelling skills to one of real life's most mysterious occurrences: the shared biology of twins and the uncanny bonds that arise from it. Part murder mystery, ghost story, and psychological thriller, Regina's Song masterfully fuses together elements that elicit our deepest, darkest fears....

Twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can't tell them apart. Eerily attuned to one another, they often speak together in a secret language no one else can understand. Then tragedy strikes when one of the twins is viciously murdered. The remaining twin is so traumatized, she reverts to the cryptic language she once shared with her sister. What's more, since identical twins share identical DNA, there is no way to tell which girl was the victim. The parents believe the surviving twin is Renata and have no choice but to commit her to an institution. There she lives, incomprehensible to the rest of the world. Until the day Mark, a family friend, comes to visit and the young girl utters her first intelligible word.

From that day forward Mark spends hours with Renata at the hospital. When she finally begins to communicate again in English, she reveals virtually no memory of the past. Mark remains a strong link between Renata and her former life -- a fact that drives him to a resolute sense of responsibility for the fragile girl. Brilliant and beautiful, Renata gradually reacclimates herself to the outside world. But she is far from recovered. Her nightmares grow steadily more frightful, followed by wild fits of hysteria and dark mood swings.

Meanwhile, as Seattle is plagued by a grisly serial killer, Mark has a terrifying realization: the murders coincide with Renata's strange outbursts. Could she be the killer? Determined to dispel his suspicion, he stakes out Renata's home. But his nocturnal vigils do nothing to ease his fears. For the unholy sight he witnesses on one of Seattle's most bone-chilling winter nights will haunt his soul for the rest of his life....

Asterix and the Great Crossing (Asterix) (Paperback) by Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo,



ISBN-10: 0752866486
Price: RM22
Product Description

Land ho! Asterix and Obelix had been lost at sea, but they've finally reached what they think is a Roman colony. Then the Vikings turn up on a voyage of discovery, and the two Gauls realize that they've done something greater and more important: they've discovered a strange New World.

Asterix and the Laurel Wreath (Asterix) (Paperback)by Rene Goscinny (Author), Albert Uderzo (Illustrator)




ISBN-10: 0752866370
Price: RM22
Product Description

Chief Vitalstatistix has rashly bet his brother-in-law, the infuriating show-off Homeopathix, that he can get hold of Caesar's laurel wreath to season a stew. Of course, now it's up to Asterix and Obelix to go to Rome, find the wreath, and bring it back for the promised dinner. Can they save Vitalstatistix's honor?

Asterix Obelix and Co. (Asterix) (Paperback) by by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo



Language: English
ISBN-10: 0752866524
Price : RM22

Product Description

Watch out! Julius Caesar has devised his most cunning attack yet on the indomitable Gauls. He has sent Caius Preposterus, a graduate of the Latin School of Economics, to corrupt them by introducing big business into their little town. But will wealth and success bring the Gauls happiness...or trouble?

Saturday, July 5, 2008

I'm Too Fond of My Fur #4 (Geronimo Stilton) (Paperback)


ISBN-10: 0439559669
Price : RM8

Product Description
Who Is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They are whisker-licking good stories, and that's a promise!I'm Too Fond of My Fur!I was on my way 'round the world to Mouse Everest! The trip was long and dangerous. I almost froze my tail off on the way. And then I was kidnapped by the Abominable Snowman! Yes, it was truly an amazing adventure....

Geronimo Stilton #7: Red Pizzas for a Blue Count (Mass Market Paperback)


ISBN-10: 0439559693
Price: RM 8

Product Description
Who Is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They are whisker-licking good stories, and that's a promise!__RED PIZZAS FOR A BLUE COUNT When Trap got mouse-napped in Transratania, it was up to Thea and me to rescue him. Little did I know that Transratania is the land of vampire mice! Oh, would I ever make it back to my nice, safe mousehole alive?

Geronimo Stilton: The Phantom of the Subway


ISBN-10: 0439661625
Price :RM 8

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/media.jsp?id=616

Product Description
When my sister Thea told me a ghost was haunting New Mouse City's subway tunnels, I knew I had to get the scoop for The Rodents Gazette! So I set off with Thea, Trap, and my assistant editor Pinky Pick. We soon discovered that Sally Ratmousen, the editor of The Daily Rat, was also on the trail of the mysterious ghost. But we were all in for the fright of our wee mouse lives... because the ghost turned out to be a CAT!

Postman Bear (Tales from Acorn Wood) (Pop-Up)



ISBN-10: 0333966244
Condition: New
Price: RM 15

Synopsis
This book is a part of the "Tales from Acorn Wood" series. Deep in the heart of Acorn Wood, bear is writing letters to his friends. Lift the flaps and join frog, squirrel and mole for bear's special surprise!

Author http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/
Growing up

I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).

Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes.

I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.
Busking and books

Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.

The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for children’s television. I became an expert at writing to order on such subjects as guinea pigs, window-cleaning and horrible smells. “We want a song about throwing crumpled-up wrapping paper into the bin” was a typical request from the BBC.

I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs.

One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading.

My real breakthrough was THE GRUFFALO, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.

I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books.

Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers.

When I’m not writing I am often performing, at book festivals and in theatres. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs. When Malcolm can take time off from the hospital he and his guitar come too. and it feels as if we’ve come full circle - back to busking.

Maisy Makes it Fun by Lucy Cousins (hardcover)


ISBN : 1844286835
Condition: New
Price : RM 17


Lift-the-flap fun with Maisy! Cycling, dancing, playing, cooking - it's so much more fun with Maisy! 2005 sees the fifteenth anniversary of Maisy - major trade and consumer activity, events and publicity throughout the year. Maisy books have won several major awards, sold over 15 million copies worldwide and are available in 26 different languages.

Where Is Maisy's Panda?: A Lift the Flap Book (Maisy) (Pop-Up)

ISBN: 0744569206
Condition : New
Price: RM15

Maisy lost Panda. Is he in the washing machine, the toilet, the clothes basket? WHere is Panda? Lift the flaps and help Maisy find him.

Maisy's Christmas Eve by Lucy Cousins (Paperback)


ISBN-10: 1844286770
Condition : New
Price : RM 17

It's Christmas Eve, hooray! And Maisy has invited everyone to celebrate at her house. Cyril and Tallulah are decorating the tree and Charley is busy helping with the food, of course! But where is Eddie? There's only one thing to do - go out into the snow and look for him!

Mumble's Journey: The Junior Novelization Happy Feet (Paperback)


Author: Micol Ostow
ISBN: 9780843121049
Age Range: 6 to 8
Price : RM12

Synopsis

All Emperor penguins can sing, except Mumble--the little penguin who loves to dance . Don't miss the story of his journey to find his place in the world . This junior novelization is the perfect book for fans who want to experience the humor and heart-warming message of Happy Feet again and again . And with an 8-page full-color glossy insert featuring art from this visually stunning movie, this book will have readers dancing for joy .

Friday, July 4, 2008

The eye of jade by Diane Wei Liang


Condition : New
Price : RM34

Synopsis
Mei is a modern, independent Chinese woman. She runs her own business in Beijing, working as a private investigator; she owns a car; she even has that most modern of commodities, a male secretary. One day, 'Uncle' Chen, no relation but a close friend of her mother, comes to Mei with a case to investigate. He asks her to find a Han dynasty jade of great value. The jade was taken from its museum during the years of the Cultural Revolution when Red Guards swarmed the streets, destroying many remnants of the past. Mei's investigations reveal a story that has far more to do with the past, and her own family history, than she could ever have expected. The story forces her to delve into that dark, brutal part of China's history, Mao's labour camps and the countless deaths for which no one was ever held responsible. It exposes the agonizing choices made during the Revolution, to kill or be killed, to love or to live. The "Eye of Jade" is a fascinating glimpse of city life in modern China. Liang captures vividly Beijing's bustle and noise, from seedy gambling dens and cheap noodle bars to the splendour of the Forbidden City.

With a rich cast of characters, spanning immigrant workers and government officials, she examines the sometimes uneasy relationship between China's brutal communist past under Mao and its increasingly capitalist present.

About the Author
Diane Wei Liang was born in Beijing. She spent part of her childhood with her parents in a labor camp in a remote region of China. While attending Peking University in the 1980's, she took part in the Student Democracy Movement and was in Tiananmen Square. Diane has a PhD in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and was a professor of management in the US and the UK for over ten years. She lives in London with her husband and their two children.

Chart Throb (Paperback) by Ben Elton



ISBN: 978-0552773768
Condition: New
Price: RM17

Book Description
A biting social satire of one of the world's most popular cultural phenomena from the bestselling author of The First Casualty.

Synopsis
Chart Throb is the ultimate pop quest. There are ninety five thousand hopefuls, three judges, just one winner. And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show. Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted 'search' for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The 'real' is about to be put back into 'reality' television and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation's favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves. Ben Elton, author of "Popcorn" and "Dead Famous" returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. Chart Throb has one winner and a whole bunch of losers.

Fountainhead by Ayn Rand


Price: RM18
Condition : New

Synopsis

Ayn Rand's classic novel has been inspiring readers for over half a century. Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect whose revolutionary building designs lead him to wage a desperate battle against his colleagues, society, and even the woman he loves. Roark refuses to compromise. In defense of his selfish choices, Roark stuns his critics by developing a radical moral philosophy every bit as revolutionary as his buildings.

Annotation

A phenomenal bestseller since its publication in 1943, The Fountainhead brought Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism to a worldwide audience. As original today as it was when it was written, this novel reinvents the modern-day hero. This anniversary edition includes a special afterword by Leonard Peikoff and excerpts from Rand's own notes about the book.
New York Times - Purette

Ayn Rand is a writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.

A thousand rooms of dreams and fear by Atiq Rahimi



Condition: New
Price : RM17

Product Description
The extraordinary work of the Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi allows us a rare insight into Afghanistan. After Earth and Ashes (published around the world and made into a feature film) comes this amazing short novel about an Afghan student seeking freedom from politics and religious fundamentalism.
Product Details

The Blood Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani


Condition: New
Price: RM27

Book Website: http://www.bloodofflowers.com/
Longlisted for the 2008 Orange Book Prize for Fiction

n 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.
Despite her lowly station, the young woman blossoms as a brilliant designer of carpets, a rarity in a craft dominated by men. But while her talent flourishes, her prospects for a happy marriage grow dim. Forced into a secret marriage to
a wealthy man, the young woman finds herself faced with a daunting decision: forsake her own dignity, or risk everything she has in an effort to create a new life.

"Anita Amirrezvani has written a sensuous and transporting first novel filled with the colors, tastes and fragrances of life in seventeenth-century Isfahan...Amirrezvani clearly knows and loves the ways of old Iran, and brings them to life with the cadences of a skilled story-spinner." -- Geraldine Brooks, author of March

"An engrossing, enthralling tale of a girl's quest for self-determination in the fascinating other world that was seventeenth-century Iran." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Touchy Subjects and Life Mask

About the Author
Anita Amirrezvani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in San Francisco. For ten years, she was a dance critic for newspapers in the Bay Area. She has received fellowships from the National Arts Journalism Program, the NEA's Arts Journalism Institute for Dance, and the Hedgebrook Foundation for Women Writers. Amirrezvani is a student in the MFA program in fiction at San Francisco State University.

The Know-it-All (Paperback) by A.J. Jacobs


ISBN : 978-0434013401
Condition: New
Price: RM30

DESCRIPTION & EXCERPT
Part memoir, part Cliff's Notes to every topic under the sun, The Know-It-All is about the year I spent reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z (or, more precisely, from a-ak to zywiec). All forty-four million words of it. The book is many things:

First, it's a compendium of the funniest, most fascinating, and most profound facts I uncovered-from the history of canned laughter to Nathaniel Hawthorne's obsessive-compulsive behavior to female spies in the Civil War.

Second, it is a search for meaning and wisdom among that ocean of facts.

Third, it's a memoir of my eccentric, knowledge-loving family. (My dad, for instance, holds the world record for the most number of footnotes in a law review article: 5,435.)

And finally, it is a series of adventures to test the limits of intelligence. I competed in a crossword-puzzle tournament, went on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and attended a Mensa convention.

And if that's not enough, it's a mere 1.4 pounds, as opposed to the Britannica's 128 pounds.

That's my summary, anyway. Though I kind of like the way The Philadelphia Inquirer put it, since I can't say the things they say without looking like a self-promoting putz. Well, more of one, anyway.

"The Know-It-All has to be one of the most entertaining and informative book reports in existence. It is charming, humorous, instructive, fascinating, even kind of inspirational. But Jacobs' book is more than that. He puts it all into the context of his life, and a text that could have been utterly dry winds up charming us with Jacobs' honesty and vulnerability. Jacobs is courageous enough to risk looking stupid by sharing his quirks and insecurities . . . and he wins the gambit. He comes across as nothing short of endearing."

Wicked! (Paperback) by Jilly Cooper



ISBN: 0593052986
Condition: new
Price: RM15

Synopsis:
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.

Break No Bones by Kathy Reich


ISBN: 0099441519
Condition: new
Price: RM13

Synopsis
It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school. Dr. Temperance Brennan's students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a decomposing body is uncovered in a shallow grave off a lonely beach...The skeleton is articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue; the remains are encased in rotted fabric and topped by wisps of pale, blond hair - a recent burial, and a case Tempe must take. Dental remains and skeletal gender and race indicators suggest that the deceased is a middle-aged white male - but who was he? Why was he buried in a clandestine grave? And what does the unusual vertical hairline fracture of the sixth cervical vertebrae signify? While Tempe is trying to piece together the evidence, her personal life is thrown into turmoil. When a bullet - intended, perhaps, for her - puts Tempe's estranged husband Pete in hospital, her unexpectedly emotional response complicates her on-off relationship with Detective Andrew Ryan...But before long, another body is discovered - and Tempe finds herself drawn deeper into a shocking and chilling investigation, set to challenge her entire view of humanity.

Cross by James Patterson


ISBN: 0316159794
Condition: new

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he's drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria's killer. Cross's competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan's sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost? (Nov.)
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Excerpts from the book:
http://www.jamespatterson.com/excerpts_cross0.html

Links to Author:
http://www.jamespatterson.com/books_alex_cross.html

The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas (Paperback) by Paul Theroux


ISBN: 0618943323
Condition: new
Price: RM34

From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com

Reviewed by Michael Dirda
Paul Theroux is something of a throwback. In an era when so many novelists jump up and down with tricks, verbal antics, shock and razzle-dazzle, all the while shouting -- like Baby Roo -- "Look at me, look at me," Theroux just gets on with telling a compelling story, with the smoothness of a confident professional. The Elephanta Suite is his 27th work of fiction. The man knows his business.

Yet almost none of his novels or short story collections is widely known, with the partial exception of The Mosquito Coast and Half Moon Street (both made into films). People mainly think of Paul Theroux as a travel writer, the man who gave us the larky, sometimes scathing and bitterly comic bestseller The Great Railway Bazaar. Over the years since then, he's turned out many similar books, some of them marred by his slightly sour personality. In more ways than one, he's the Somerset Maugham of our time.

That's meant as a compliment. Maugham was comparably disdained by critics as just an entertainer, a marketer of commercial fiction and travel journalism. Yet he wrote clearly and powerfully, and once he started telling a story, it was nearly impossible to stop turning the pages. Many of his best works were set in "the East" and described Westerners going to seed, or searching for mystical transcendence, or being tempted to crimes of passion, including murder. The debilitating heat and the lushness of the vegetation released the suppressed desires of the straitlaced, while the exotic ways of the indigenous people called into question the manners and morals of the now distant homeland. That once forbidden, even unnatural love affair -- with the too young native girl or boy, or with the consul's bored wife -- might suddenly seem little more than a peccadillo, a way to pass the long, humid evenings underneath the slowly turning ceiling fan. Abroad, Maugham revealed, any of us could shuck his identity and become someone else.

The Elephanta Suite, a trio of novellas, expertly updates many of these classic themes but grounds them in the realities of modern-day India. In "Monkey Hill," a rich American businessman and his wife spend more and more time at a luxurious spa an hour from Mumbai. There they are served by desperately poor young people who are willing to do almost anything to better their lives or earn a little money. Meanwhile in the nearby village, Muslim-Hindu conflict is gradually intensifying.

In "The Gateway of India," a burned-out lawyer from Massachusetts, newly divorced and afraid to eat the local food or even leave his hotel room, engineers outsourcing deals for roof tiles, gaskets and power tools. One afternoon, he finally goes for a walk and experiences a revelation that will take him into sexual depravity and beyond.

In "The Elephant God," a young woman, just out of college, immerses herself in India, eventually joining an ashram, then teaching slang and American pronunciation to the Indians working the service phones for U.S. manufacturing companies. She also starts visiting a chained-up elephant with whom she feels an increasingly strong spiritual bond. Then something horrible happens.

All three novellas are tenuously connected. Not only by their themes -- Americans in India; the temptations of sex, mysticism or both; unexpected consequences -- but also because the main characters all stay, if only briefly, in the Elephanta Suite of a luxurious Mumbai hotel. What's more, the businessman of the first story is mentioned in the second, and a young woman glimpsed in the second becomes the main character of the third. That said, nothing much is done with this interlacing. It even seems a little cutesy.

But Theroux's India isn't cutesy at all. In "Monkey Hill," Audie and his wife Beth are driven to their spa from the airport, passing through "the populous and chaotic India they'd been warned about, the India that made you sick and fearful and impatient." Audie recalls the drive as "a long panning shot, the sort you'd get in a documentary with a jumping camera, the very first image a woman with no hands, begging at a stoplight just outside the airport, raising her stumps to Audie's window ('Don't look, honey'), then the overloaded lopsided trucks. . . the ox carts piled high with bulging sacks sharing the road with crammed buses painted blue and red, the sight of women slapping clothes on boulders in a dirty stream ('Laundering,' the driver said), others threshing grain on mats. Wooden scaffolding on brick buildings that already looked like ruins, whitewashed temples, mosques with minarets like pencils, gated houses, hovels, the lean-tos and tents of squatters. . . . Every few miles huge billboards showing movie posters of bug-eyed fatties in tight clothes."

In "The Gateway of India," Dwight Huntsinger recognizes that in India "something within him had been liberated and released, perhaps something as simple as his fear." "You said, 'Poor guy, so far away in that awful place,' never guessing that he was someone you didn't know at all, a happy person in a distant place that allowed him to be himself -- girls saying Whatever you want, sir and What you like? or the most powerful word in the language of desire, Yes." And yet this story veers away from mere sexual exploitation: Huntsinger gradually learns that India has also released him from something even deeper, from his very identity. Readers who know Thomas M. Disch's tour-de-force of human metamorphosis, "The Asian Shore" -- about an American ensorcelled by Istanbul -- will glimpse its analogue in "The Gateway of India."

In the last story, "The Elephant God," Alice arrives in Mumbai, a knapsack on her back, expecting to find the world of Merchant Ivory films, the world of the Indian fiction she'd read in college. She is soon disillusioned. "Where were the big fruitful families from these novels? Where were the jokes, the love affairs, the lavish marriage ceremonies, the solemn pieties, the virtuous peasants, the environmentalists, the musicians, the magic, the plausible young men? They seemed concocted to her now, and besieged in up-close India, all she thought of was Hieronymus Bosch, turtle-faced crones, stumpy men, deformed children."

But she persists and discovers that India will, alas, still surprise her. By its end, "The Elephant God," like "Monkey Hill," gains something of the grimness of Paul Bowles's early tales of American-Arab encounters: Close intercourse with the native people invariably leads to disaster.

It should be clear by now that Theroux isn't likely to bring many new tourists to the subcontinent. But these novellas of hunger -- physical and spiritual -- only make sense in a country such as India, where such extremes meet constantly. In the ashram Alice encounters two young and pampered Indian women who grew up thinking that everyone had servants. They never fully realized that the people just outside their gated mansions, or glimpsed from their air-conditioned limousines, were starving.

Though Theroux repeats himself just a bit in the middle of "The Gateway of India," the thought-provoking novellas of The Elephanta Suite are otherwise beautifully paced, by turns moving, sexy and disturbing. You could finish one in an evening, which means that at least three evenings this fall would be very well spent.

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