Pre-loved books in need of a new loving owner

All of the books here are pre-loved unless stated otherwise. Though they are used, the books are still in excellent condition. Please email me at shahimah@gmail.com for more info or for discounts.

JANE AUSTEN VOLUME 1 (Hardcover)
RM20 (np: RM32.90)
3 novels in 1
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion


COLLECTED WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE
RM20 (np: RM36.90)
The complete plays, poems and stories
including Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis

THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 
RM25 (np: RM49.90)
Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, this book finally gives a woman's take on the timeless tale that is the Mahabharata.  It's a deeply human story about a woman born into a man's world.




LUSTRUM By Richard Harris
RM40 (np: RM69.90)
Rome, 63BC. The stories of real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, cruelties and seductions, brilliance and crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel which is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power



LET'S READ TOGETHER SERIES (CONDITION: NEW)
RM10 per set
Titles in set:Three Good Friends, The Lion King and His Reflection, A Grey Kitten Becomes White, Comot Looks for a Friend, Mamat's Money-box, Timah is Ashamed to look in the Mirror, Kuning Wants To Be a Bird, Abu Meets the Ant King, My Cat, Comel, Where Does the Sun Go?

ALL SHALL BE WELL By Tod Wodicka
RM30 (np: RM65.90)
Meet Burt Hecker, medieval re-enactor who dresses in tunics who has sold all his possessions and bought a one-way ticket to Europe, bent on rescuing his son Tristan from the 'evil' city of Prague.  If only he knew that his son doesn't want to be rescued, or found.

THE ALCHEMY OF DESIRE By Tarun Tejpal
RM30
"The Religion is a novel for our times, dealing as it does with the clash between the Christian West and the Islamic East... as his epic tale unfolds, he examines, through the reactions of his cast of characters, all of them caught up in extreme circumstances, the phenomenon of religion." Independent
ANNA KARENINA By Leo Tolstoy
RM30 (np: RM44.00)
-Oprah Winfrey Book Club-Recommended for discussion
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-month club translation prize




ROOTS By Alex Haley
RM30 (np: RM49.90)Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, he discovered a 16-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his hoimeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.



THE DA VINCI CODE By Dan Brown
RM25 (np: RM35.90)"Wow... Blockbuster perfection... an exhilaratingly brainy thriller. Not since the advent of Harry Potter has an author so flagrantly delighted in leading readers on a breathless chase." New York Times





PUBLIC CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN
By Sue Townsend
RM18 (np: RM32.95)"Full of homely, hilarious asides on the absurdities of domestic existence... What a fantastic advertisement for middle age - it can't be bad if its this funny" - Heat
"A welcome addition to any bookshelf" - Hello




CLOSE RANGE: WYOMING STORIES By Annie Proulx
RM15 (np: RM32.90)-The author who penned Brokeback MountainThe wild country - indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky - provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like claw in the gut. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land, and will delight Proulx's fans everywhere



GREAT MUSLIM SCIENTISTS SET (CONDITION: NEW)

Titles in set: Al-Biruni, Az-Zahrawi, Ibn Sina, Al-Razi, Al-Haytham, Jabir
RM100 (np: RM227)

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