My Sister's Keeper

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Number of pages: 407 pages
Price: RM17
Synopsis:
Sara Fitzgerald's daughter, Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything - whatever it takes - to save her child.

Then the test come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs, there is only option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a beautiful new daughter, Anna, too.

Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she doesn't want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.

Nineteen Minutes

Publisher: Hodder& Stoughton Ltd.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Number of pages: 592 pages
Price: RM17
Synopsis:
As a midwife, Lacy Houghton brings lives into the world.

She didn't expect her son to take them away.

But that's what he did one March morning, when he walked into his high school with guns instead of books and killed ten people.

Along with the rest of the shocked and grief-stricken town, Lacy is left wondering when her shy 17-year-old boy turned into a monster. And was it her fault?

In the aftermath of the shooting, Lacy searches the past for clues and begins to realise that despite, or perhaps because of, her every effort, she never really knew her son at all...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Publisher: Bloomsbury
Author: Lisa See
Number of pages: 340 pages
Price: RM17
Synopsis:
Lily is a daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learning nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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There's No Place Like Here

Publisher: Hyperion
Author: Cecelia Ahern
Number of pages: 417
Price: RM18

Synopsis:

Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal - whether it's the sock that vanished in the washing machine, the car keys she misplaced, or the graver issue of finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy dedicates her work to finding these missing people, offering devastated families a flicker of hope.

Jack Ruttle is one of those desperate people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air, and he thinks Sandy Shortt could well be the answer to his prayers. But when Sandy goes missing too, she stumbles upon the place - and people - she's been looking for all her life. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. This time, though, she is desperately trying to find her way home...

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Author: David Wroblewski

Number of pages: 643

Price: RM18

Synopsis:

On a farm in remote Wisconsin, the mute and brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents raising and training a unique breed of dog.

But when Edgar's uncle unexpectedly returns home, the scene is set for a family tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. Forced to flee into the wilderness, Edgar comes of age fighting for survival. But the questions he has left unanswered, and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs, turn Edgar ever homeward.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is at once a brilliant retelling of an ancient story, a haunting exploration of a boy and the dogs he loves and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal and courage in the American heartland.

First Family

Publisher: Pan Books
Author : David Baldacci
Number of pages: 659
Price : RM17
Synopsis:
Camp David. USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations.

Jane Cox, the First Lady, enlists the services of private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to find her young niece Willa, and bring her safely home. For she and King share a past...

But Sean and Michelle's investigations run far from smoothly and when their leads are exposed as dead ends and Willa's kidnapper finally makes contact, it becomes apparent that the First Lady has not been entirely honest with the pair...

As the drama builds to an explosive crescendo, King and Maxwell find themselves pushed to the limit. With forces aligned on all sides against them, the boundary between friend and foe becomes impossible to define .... or defend.