** Twenties Girl **

Title: Twenties Girl
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Condition: Read Once, Excellent
MYR 24

Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. Lara's got enough problems of her own. Her start-up company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she's just been dumped by the love of her life. But as Lara spends time with Sadie, life becomes more glamorous and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie's ghost be the answer to Lara's problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other?

The Kiss

Title: The Kiss (SOLD!)

Author: Danielle Steel

Book Condition: New

MYR15 

 


The longest, most winding journey can begin with a single kiss..


Isabelle Forrester is the wife of a Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. Isabelle has one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with a Washington power broker who, like Isabelle, is trapped in a loveless marriage. To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Agreeing to meet for a few precious innocent days in London, they find their friendship changing an on a warm June evening, they exchange their first searching kiss. Time stands still - until in a flash of metal and glass a red double-decker bus, full of passengers, strikes their limousine and crushes it beneath its tremendous weight.

** Nights of Rain and Stars **

Title: Nights of Rain and Stars
Author: Maeve Binchy
Condition: New, Excellent
MYR 20

Four strangers meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together.
Fiona is trying to make her family understand her need to follow her own path. Thomas desperately misses his young son and fears that his ex-wife will come between them. Elsa abandoned a successful career, but someone from her past refuses to let her go. And shy, quiet David is determined to make a stand against his overbearing father.
Nights of Rain and Stars is the story of one summer and four people, each with a life in turmoil. With the help of Vonni, an Irish woman who lives in the village and is now a near-native, they find solutions - though not necessarily the ones they anticipated.

** When The Boys Are Away / Take A Chance **

Title: When The Boys Are Away / Take A Chance (Omnibus - 2 Books in 1)
Author: Sarah Webb
Book Condition: Excellent, New
MYR22 (SOLD..TQ!!)


When The Boys Are Away:
Meg Miller had had enough of living out of a suitcase. She'd spent three years trailing around the globe with two children, following her professional sailor boyfriend, Simon. However, when she returns to Dublin she realises that all her friends have moved on, leaving her with only her eccentric family for support. When Simon announces he's moving home for good, Meg quickly discovers that living apart is sometimes easier than living together. But when Simon's past comes back to haunt him, she realises that it's time to stop playing and start fighting for what's important.


Take A Chance:
AbbaFab, the hugely popular Abba tribute band, are in trouble. Gemma Redden, aka Agnetha, has just broken her ankle and finding a new singer to fill her white platform boots at such late notice isn't going to be easy. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the youngest Redden sister, Mia, reluctantly agrees to don the blonde wig and sky-blue hot pants. For Mia, a shy piano teacher who has felt third best all her life, this is her big chance to prove herself to her two big sisters, Wendy and Gemma. But Wendy has been keeping a secret, a secret that could blow the band apart and devastate the close-knit Redden sisters. But secrets have a way of coming out when you least expect them to. And sometimes even the best of sisters gets it horribly wrong.

** A Hollywood Ending **

Book Title: A Hollywood Ending (SOLD!!) 
Author: Robyn Sisman
Book Condition: New, Large Paperback
MYR18

Something is amiss in the perfect world of Paige Carson, movie star and Hollywood princess. Her co-star is a pig. Her Daddy has done the unforgivable. And, at twenty-nine, she's spotted her first wrinkle. The acting parts are drying up, and so is her love life.
Oscar Night is the final humiliation that sends Paige fleeing to London, where she's been offered a Shakespearean role on the stage. She's determined to prove her worth as an actress, lead a 'normal' life - and maybe even snare herself a cute English lord.
But Paige is in for a shock. London is damper, dirtier and far more carb-heavy than she imagined. The men are less Hugh Grant and more Heathcliff, to judge by her stuck-up neighbout, Ed Hawkshead. As opening night looms, Paige must learn not only how to master a decent British accent, but also to stand on her own two feet for the first time.

** Aphelion **

Book Title: Aphelion
Author: Emily Ballou
Condition: New, Large Paperback
MYR22 

Exiled by love, Hazel Rey moves to the historic town of old Adaminaby. A victim of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, the town now lurks, gone but not forgotten, under the waters of Lake Eucumbene.

There, on the shore of the lake, Hazel meets four generations of women sharing one house. Eighty-year-old Esme Windle waits patiently for her turn to die - but a daughter is not meant to go before her mother, and Esme's ancient mother Hortense shows no signs of being finished with living. Esme's neice Byrne and Byrne's daughter, the widowed Lucetta, are succumbing to their own lonely fate. All four seem destined to live in a perpetual aphelion, pulled down by dark regrets and lost love.

But when young Rhett Davys returns to his abandoned family home after the death of his mother, he carries within him a fire that will ignite all of their lives.

** Of Merchants & Heroes **

Title: Of Merchants & Heroes   
Author: Paul Waters
Book Condition: New, Excellent
MYR15


At the end of the third century BC, as republican Rome's long war with Carthage in Afirca draws to a close, a new danger is arising - the ruthless King of Macedon, Philip the Fifth, is moving against the independent city states fo Greece and threatening Rome itself.
Against this background, Marcus, a young Roman, embarks on a sea crossing with his father. Pirates, led by the wild corsair Dikaiarchos, ambush the ship, and Marcus's father scarifices his own line in order to save his son. Marcus vows to avenge his father's death, setting him on a voyage that will forge his character and bring him to his unexpected destiny.

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** Paint It Black **

Title: Paint It Black
Author: Janet Fitch
Book Condition: New 
MYR15


Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene, finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael introduces her to his spiritual quest for beauty and a world of sophisticcation she had never dreamed existed. But the day she is called to identify her lover's dead body, Josie's bright dreams all turn to black.
Struggling to understand Michael's death, Josie finds herself both repelled by and attracted to his formidable mother, Meredith, who holds Josie responsible for her son's torment.

** Snow **

Title: Snow (SOLD!!)
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Book Condition: New
MYR22

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicide among religious girls forbidden to wear their headscarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. Touching, slyly comic and humming with cerebral suspense.

** Revolutionary Road **

Title: Revolutionary Road (SOLD!!)
Author: Richard Yates
Condition: New
MYR22

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler seem to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never did see herself as a housewife. Yet they always have the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble.
Now a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet.

** The Children of Hurin **

Title: The Children of Hurin (SOLD)

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Condition: New
MYR22

The great tale of the Children of Hurin, set during the legendary time before the Lord of the Rings.
Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of fear of Angband, and the war raged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined.