Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold


Condition: Good
Price: RM20

Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch - Haywood Smith

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Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed.

Lin's barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty-year-old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long-suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love-hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next-door neighbor. Trying to navigate her way through the second act of her life with nothing more than a prepaid calling card, a broken heart, and plenty of Prozac, Lin's about to discover that it's never too late for old friends, new romance, the ties of family, and a second chance to survive it all on the road to becoming the person you were always meant to be...

Condition: Good
Price: RM20

Simply Divine - Wendy Holden

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Jane is a twenty-something journalist who has the usual problems facing a modern woman: job stress, career angst, weight trouble, and an unfulfilling relationship with the man in her life.Her best friend, Tally, wishes she had a boyfriend: a knight with a gold card who could ride up and keep her beloved family estate from falling into the hands of greedy developers.Which is about as likely to happen as Jane embarking on a guilt-free, passionate affair with the sexy writer who lives upstairs. Instead, she has just been recruited for her magazine's latest circulation-boosting gimmick: ghostwriting the life and racy times of celebrity socialite Champagne D'Vyne.But following the grand diva of self-promotion across Europe and straight into tabloid hell can have its advantages. Especially if it leads to -- cross your fingers -- a new job, a new man, and, just maybe, that long dreamed of walk down the aisle.

Condition: Yellowing, cover a bit bended
Price: RM15

Angels & Demons - Dan Brown

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An ancient secret brotherhood.
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
An unthinkable target.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

Condition: Perfect
Price: RM25

A Slice of Heaven - Sherryl Woods

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The perfect recipe for new begnnings...

Dana Sue might run the best little restaurant in Serenity, but when you're feeding a small town of neighbors, busybodies and best friends, things can get a bit hot in the kitchen. Never mind that sh's putting on too many pounds (an occupational hazard for a chef)--sh's worried about her too-skinny teenage daughter, Annie, who has been slowly starving herself since the loud, suitcase-tossing, name-calling fit on her front lawn that left Dana Sue minus one cheating husband.

But sometimes life picks strange ways to mend fences. When Annie lands in the hospital, Dana Sue reaches out to the man she loves to hate: Ron, the husband who took her heart when she tossed him out. Ron is still Annie's white knight, even if h's decidedly more tarnished in Dana Sue's eyes. But he still looks good enough to eat, and maybe, just maybe, to forgive. Once, Ron made the mistake of letting go without a proper fight. But now Dana Sue is about to get another taste of sweet devotion from a man tired of feeling like a fool, hungry for that slice of heaven he found with her.

Condition: Perfect but yellowing
Price: RM15

Sweet Spot - Susan Mallery

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If only her life was more sinful than sweet...

"Responsibility" should be Nicole Keyes's middle name. After all, not many people would sacrifice their lives to run the family bakery and raise a younger sibling. But with Nicole's twin sister now blissfully married and her younger sis turning out more femme fatale than girl-next-door, super reliable Nicole is getting sick of putting everyone else's needs first!

Enter Hawk. The deliciously sexy former NFL player offers Nicole a taste of the freedom she craves. Hawk may know the way, blindfolded, to her sweet spot, but Nicole's not about to let him get close enough to break her heart. Of course, she might not have a choice in the matter if Hawk's past keeps getting in the way of their present....

Condition: Perfect
Price: RM15

Not Another Bad Date - Rachel Gibson

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What does a gal have to do to get a good date in this town?

Adele Harris can't even begin to answer that question. She's had so many lousy dates that she's sure she's cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he's lost his mind—and his manners? Adele thought life couldn't get any more confusing . . . until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown to give her a shoulder to cry on, only to run smack into Zach Zemaitis . . . the one who got away.

Texans love God, family, and football, though not always in that order

Zach, a former pro star, knows all about football. As for the other two, well, he's doing his best. But when Adele comes charging back into his life—still all lush curves and beautiful, big blue eyes—he wonders if his best is good enough. After all, he did her wrong. Can a woman with her track record ever really believe that he's serious this time . . . or is he destined to be another bad date?

Condition: Perfect
Price: RM22

Lady Killer - Lisa Scottoline

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Mary DiNunzio has become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates. But the last person she expects to walk into her office one morning—in mile-high stilettos—is super-sexy Trish Gambone, her high-school rival. Back when Mary was becoming the straight-A president of the Latin Club and Most Likely to Achieve Sainthood, Trish was the head Mean Girl, who flunked religion and excelled at smoking in the bathroom.

These days, however, Trish needs help. She is terrified of her live-in boyfriend, an abusive, gun-toting drug dealer for the South Philly mob. Mary remembers the guy from high school, too. She had a major crush on him.

Then Trish vanishes, a dead body turns up in an alley, and Mary is plunged into a nightmare that threatens her job, her family, and even her life. She goes on a one-woman crusade to unmask the killer, and on the way finds new love in a very unexpected place.

Condition: Perfect
Price: RM15

Angels All Over Town - Luanne Rice

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Una Cavan has always believed the women of her family had the power of witches. Splitting their time between the New England shore and the bustle of New York City, she and her sisters have shared a special unbreakable bond that no man has been able to challenge...but then Lily marries and begins to drift away and Margo gets engaged. With another failed relationship behind her, a thriving acting career ahead, and now her father's ghost dropping in for casual visits, Una wonders if she's destined to be alone or if there isn't something more magical in store for her...

Condition: Perfect but yellowing
Price: RM20

Tell Me Lies - Jennifer Crusie

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Maddie Faraday's life would be perfect---
if it weren't for her cheating husband,
her suspicious daughter,
her gossipy mother,
her secretive best friend,
her nosy neighbors,
and that guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago...

A funny, sexy, suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter, and chocolate brownies.

Condition: Good
Price: RM20

Italian for Beginners - Kristin Harmel


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Good-girl Cat Connelly is bored of playing it safe. Despairing of finding love, she decides it’s time to break all the rules in search of some excitement…

Ciao, bella!

Taking up an invitation to go to Italy for a month seems the perfect solution. But suddenly Cat finds herself alone in Rome! It will take an unexpected friendship, a whirlwind tour of the Eternal City, and a surprise encounter to show Cat that life doesn’t always work out the way you think it will – but that the best things are often to be found in the breathtakingly unexpected.

Condition: Perfect
Price: RM12