Author: Jamie Oliver
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 360 pages
Price: Rm 40
Status: Available
The incredible diversity in American cooking was a real revelation to me. So although I went looking for "quintessential American food," my conclusion is that there is no such thing; instead there's a huge wealth of seriously exciting dishes.
Many of us outside of America may think we already know all there...
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See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work
Author: Lois P. Frankel
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 279 pages
Price: Rm 20
Status: Available
The workplace is changing. From the boardrooms to non-profit organizations to the military, the typical male management style is now obsolete. There is a new generation of employees who reject hierarchical leadership and respond to the behaviors and characteristics that women traditionally...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
Author: Steve Harvey
Year purchased: 2011
Length: 240 pages
Price: Rm 15
Status: Available
Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years, whether it's through the "Strawberry Letters" segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows. These are women who can run a small business,...
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor
Year purchased: 2014
Length: 224 pages
Price: Rm 15
Status: Available
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she...
You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life
Author: Dr. Gillian Mckeith
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 224 pages
Price: Rm 15
Status: Available
From the author of Gillian McKeith’s Food Bible and Slim for Life
With over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Gillian McKeith’s You Are What You Eat is a national bestseller that has changed the way people think about food and nutrition. You Are What You Eat features real-life diet makeovers...
And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and The Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal
Author: Christopher Ward
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 320 pages
Price: Rm 20
Status: Available
On 14th April 1912, when the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play as the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume,...
A Big Little Life: A Memoir of Joyful Dog
Author: Dean Koontz
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 288 pages
Price: Rm 15
Status: Available
In each little life we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe."DEAN KOONTZ thought he had everything he needed. A successful novelist with more than twenty #1 New York Times bestsellers to his...
One Day
Author: David Nicholls
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 437 pages
Price: Rm15
Status: Available
Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?
Twenty years, two people, one day. source: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280118-one...
I heart Hollywood
Author: Lindsey Kelk
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 326 pages
Price: Rm15
Status: Available
Celebs, sunshine and beautiful boys!enough to lead a girl astray? Angela Clark can't believe her luck! she's an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest assignment takes her to Hollywood to interview hot actor and fellow Brit James Jacobs.Thrown in at...
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 323 pages
Price: Rm10
Status: SOLD OUT
The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic....
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to...
Barbie and Ruth
Author: Robin Gerber
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 278 pages
Price: Rm15
Status: Available
Barbie and Ruth is the entwined story of two exceptional women. There's Barbie: the diminutive yet arrestingly voluptuous doll unveiled at the 1959 Toy Fair who became the treasure of 90 percent of American girls and their counterparts in 150 countries. She went on to compete as an Olympic athlete,...
The Wedding
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 289 pages
Price: Rm15
Status: SOLD OUT
With The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and his other beloved novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks has given voice to our deepest beliefs about the power of love. Now he brings us the long-awaited follow-up to The Notebook-a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win...
The Rescue
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year purchased: 2014
Length: 434 pages
Price: Rm 20
Status: SOLD OUT
One of America's bestselling authors delivers a story about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever.
When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself...
A Bend in the Road
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 368
Price: Rm20
Status: SOLD OUT
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's...
Twenties Girl
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 497 words
Price: Rm8
Status: SOLD OUT
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don't get visited by ghosts. Or do they?
When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion,...
Jemima J
Author: Jane Green
Year purchased: 2013
Length: 373 pages
Price: Rm15
Status: Available
Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to...
Ella Enchanted
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Year purchased: sometime ago
Length: 239 pages
Price: Rm10
Status: Available
At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: "Instead of making me...
2 in 1: Always the bridesmaid & It had to be you
Author: Sarah Webb
Year purchased: 2012
Length: 358 pages
Price: Rm18
Status: Available
Always the Bridesmaid
Amy's life is not working out the way she always dreamed it would. She's about to turn the dreaded 30, her career is going nowhere fast and her love life is not exactly flourishing.
To make matters worse, while things are falling apart for Amy, they seem to be coming together for...
Nothing can keep us together - Gossip girl #8
Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar
Year purchased: 2006
Length: 218 pages
Price: Rm8
Status: Available
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I get everything -- and everyone -- we want. Snagging the latest Marc Jacobs bag or your best friend's boyfriend isn't pretty, but it's always hot...It's almost graduation and our lives are really heating up. Everybody's into college...
Only in your dreams - Gossip girl #9
Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar
Year purchased: 2007
Length: 229 pages
Price: Rm8
Status: Available
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where the girls are dazzling, the guys are gorgeous, and the summer heat is the perfect excuse to throw a fabulous roof-deck pool party. As if we need a reason!It's our last summer together before heading off to college, and things are sizzling—no,...