Orphaned books in search of new home.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Robin Benway: Audrey, Wait! (SOLD!!!)


When funny, charming, absolutely-normal Audrey Cuttler dumps her boyfriend Evan, he writes a song about her that becomes a number-one hit and rockets Audrey to stardom!
Suddenly, tabloid paparazzi are on her tail and Audrey can barely hang with her friends at concerts or the movies without getting mobbed let alone score a date with James, her adorable coworker at the Scooper Dooper. Her life will never be the same at least, not until Audrey confronts Evan live on MTV and lets the world know exactly who she is!


SOLD!!

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Alexandra Potter: The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather


At age thirty-one, American Charlotte Merryweather has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and professional perfection. Yet her present-day success- heading her own PR company, owning a gorgeous apartment, planning a future with her devoted boyfriend- only heightens the shock of a visit from the past. 
"Lottie," Charlotte's twenty-one-year-old self, drives onto the scene at the wheel of a rusty, orange Volkswagen Beetle identical to Charlotte's first UK ride. Charlotte pursues a friendship aimed to bestow upon Lottie a decade of wisdom. Yet Charlotte's prosperous polish proves a pale substitute for Lottie's innate, youthful graces- openness, passion, and kindness. Will the student become the teacher in this witty turnabout?


Market Price: RM35.90
Our Price: RM16
Condition: 4/5
Product Details: Paperback, 390 pages
Status: Available

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Tash Aw: The Harmony Silk Factory



The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in British Malaya in the first half of the twentieth century. Johnny's factory is the most impressive structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny is a hero—a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses. This debut novel from Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis. The Harmony Silk Factory won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and also made it to the 2005 Man Booker longlist.

Market Price: RM33.84
Our Price: RM10
Condition: 3/5 (yellowed pages) 
Product Details: Paperback
Status: Available

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Marianne Curley : Old Magic


The moment the new guy walks into the room, Kate senses something strange and intense about him. Something supernatural. Her instincts are proven correct a few minutes later when, bullied by his classmates, Jarrod unknowingly conjures up a freak thunderstorm inside their classroom. Jarrod doesn't believe in the paranormal. When Kate tries to convince him that he has extraordinary powers that need to be harnessed, he only puts up with her "hocus pocus" notions because he finds her captivating. However, the dangerous, uncontrolled strengthening of his gift finally convinces Jarrod that he must take Kate's theories seriously. Together, they embark on a remarkable journey -- one which will unravel the mystery that has haunted Jarrod's family for generations and pit the teens against immense forces in a battle to undo the past and reshape the future.

Market Price: RM38.53
Our Price: RM16
Condition: 4/5 
Product Details: Paperback
Status: Available

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Paul Fleischman: Graven Images (Three Stories)


Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request?



Market Price: RM29
Our Price: RM14
Condition: 4/5
Product Details: Paperback, 128 pages
Status: Available

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Liz Fielding: Gentlemen Prefer....Brunettes


Market Price: Unknown
Our Price: RM10
Condition: 4/5 (refer seller's note) 
Product Details: Paperback, large print
Status: Available

Seller's note : Recommended for a fun read. Please click on back cover picture for summary. 
This book is one of the many preloved books I bought online from USA because it is not in stock in Malaysia. Reason for selling is simply because I want to buy more books. Please note that this book used to be a library book. Book cover has been poly wrap - giving it a hard-cover feel. 

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Miranda Dickinson: It Started with a Kiss


As the singer in a wedding band, Romily Parker has seen her fair share of happy endings, even though her own love life isn't quite as simple. On the last Saturday before Christmas, (shortly after disastrously declaring her love for best friend Charlie), Romily has a brief encounter with a handsome stranger whose heart-stopping kiss changes everything. Determined to find him again, Romily embarks on a yearlong quest, helped (and sometimes hindered) by enthusiastic Uncle Dudley, cake-making Auntie Mags and flamboyant Wren. Will she find the man of her dreams? Or could true love be closer than she thinks?

Market Price: 32.90
Our Price: RM16
Condition: 5/5 
Product Details: Paperback, 416 pages
Status: Available


Friday, August 2, 2013

Johanna Lindsey: Marriage Most Scandalous


When Sebastian Townshend, son of the eighth Earl of Edgewood, was banished from his family due to the tragic results of a duel, he vowed never to return to England. Now living on the continent, Sebastian has forged a new identity as a deadly mercenary, The Raven. But his former neighbor, Lady Margaret Landor, has different plans for him. Back in England, Sebastian's father has had several accidents and Margaret suspects foul play and deception that reach as far back as the infamous duel. Convinced that only Sebastian can set the situation to rights, Margaret arranges a scandalous bargain with him that includes Sebastian's returning home as her husband. As the newlyweds uncover a deadly scheme, a fierce passion blossoms between them, which neither anticipated -- and neither can resist.

Market Price: 31.90
Our Price: RM16
Condition: 4/5 
Product Details: Paperback
Status: Available

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It~~Abridged Version~~



Be careful what you ask for. You may get it! That's the message in this delightful tale of five youngsters who discover a bizarre sand creature that grants wishes. There's a catch, of course: the wishes come undone at sunset, and worse yet, things often get out of hand!

NOTE: This book is an abridged version, retold by Diane Morwat, and published for Oxford Bookworms Library (Stage 2)


Market Price: -
Our Price: RM5
Condition: 4/5 
Product Details:  Paperback, 42 pages
Status: Available

Friday, June 7, 2013

George MacDonald : The Princess and the Goblin

One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald’s The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie, who must outwit the threatening goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. Macdonald’s pioneering use of fanstasy as a literary medium had a great influence on Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle, all great admirers of his work, which has remained popular to this day. "I write, not for children," he wrote, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."

Market Price: -
Our Price: RM3
Condition: 3/5 (Yellowed pages) 
Product Details:  Paperback, 201 pages
Status: Available

Monday, June 3, 2013

Maggie Stiefvater : Ballad


Remember us, so sing the dead, lest we remember you James Morgan has an almost unearthly gift for music. And it has attracted Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and then feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die. James has plenty of reasons to fear the faeries, but as he and Nuala collaborate on an achingly beautiful musical composition, James finds his feelings towards Nuala deepening. But the rest of the fairies are not as harmless. As Halloween—the day of the dead—draws near, James will have to battle the Faerie Queen and the horned king of the dead to save Nuala's life and his soul.


Market Price: RM35.90
Our Price: RM20
Condition: 5/5
Product Details: Paperback 388 pages 
Status: Available

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Sabrina Jeffries: The Dangerous Lord (SOLD!!)


He was a dangerous man to love—and the last man she thought she'd marry. To prevent a dear friend from wedding the notorious Ian Lennard, Viscount St. Clair, Felicity Taylor set out to expose him for the scoundrel he is—never anticipating the consequences. Because now the dashing, dangerous lord is short a bride, in desperate need of an heir . . . and has set his sights on Felicity! Ian is indeed looking for a wife to secure his fortune, but this saucy, stubborn beauty might be more than he can handle. Never one to shy from a challenge—and enchanted by a face and form that could bring the most indifferent husband to his knees—suddenly Ian is about to discover the one thing more perilous than wedding vows: actually falling in love with his bride!


 SOLD!!