The Love Of Her Life

Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Harriet Evans
Number of pages: 487
Price: RM17
Synopsis:
Like every woman, Kate thought she'd never meet the love of her life... Until she did. But are they destined to be together?

Kate Miller has lived in New York for three long years. Now, with her father ill, it's time to come home and face everything she left behind:

Her friends: Zoe and Francesca, bound to her forever as a result of one day when life changed for them all.

Her family: Her adored father and his much younger wife.

The job she abandoned on a glossy women's magazine.

And the man she thought was the love of her life, whose heart she has broken.

What really happened before Kate left London? And can she pick up the pieces and allow herself to love life again?

The Time Traveler's Wife

Publisher : Vintage
Author : Audrey Niffenegger
Number of pages : 615
Price : RM17
Synopsis:
This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face if this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

P.S. I Love You & If You Could See Me Now

Publisher : Harper Collins
Author : Cecilia Ahern
Number of pages : 506 (P.S. I Love You) and 410 (If You Could See Me Now)
Price: RM25
Synopsis:
P.S. I Love You
Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.

They were childhood sweethearts - no one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.

Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms Holly discovers that Gerry has left her a bundle of notes, gently guiding her into her new life without him, eash signed 'PS, I Love You'.

With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before.

Life is for living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.

If You Could See Me Now
What if love was right there in front of you - you just couldn't see it?

Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse's young son, Luke, and with her own business to run, every precious moment is made to count.

But with Saoirse crashing in and out of their lives, leaving them both reeling, Luke and Elizabeth are desperately in need of some magic.

Enter Ivan. Wild, spontaneous and always looking for adventure, Ivan changes Elizabeth in ways she could never have imagined. With her newly open eyes and heart, Elizabeth sees what she's been missing all along.

As for Ivan, he thought he was there to help Luke, not Elizabeth - or himself.

The Boleyn Inheritance

Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Philippa Gregory
Number of pages: 518
Price: RM18
Synopsis:
Three women, one prize: the crown of England.

The year is 1539. Henry VIII must take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. Although she is fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she can sense a trap closing around her.

Katherine Howard, meanwhile, is to flirt her way to the throne. But her kinswoman Jane Boleyn is haunted by the past and the Boleyn inheritance of suspicion, betrayal and death. In this time of upheaval and uncertainty, these three young women must try to survive the most volatile court in Europe.

Ugly (Book 1) & Beyond Ugly (Book 2)

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Author: Constance Briscoe

Number of pages : Ugly (433) Beyond Ugly (239)

Price: RM 38 for 2

Blurb from Ugly:

I handed my school photograph to my mother. She stared from the photograph to me.

'Lord, sweet Lord how come she so ugly. Ugly. Ugly.'

These cruel words are just the beginning. Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the child was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas, no electricity and no food.

But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartbreaking- and ultimately triumphant- story.

Blurb from Beyond Ugly:

'I would like some cosmetic surgery.'

'For what?'

'Because I'm ugly, ugly, ugly.'

It was Constance's mother who told her she was ugly. Over and over again. And that was just one strand of a childhood blighted by physical and emotional abuse. But the young girl had a strength and resilience beyond her years.

She put herself through university, financing her studies with several jobs - including one caring for the terminally ill in a hospice - and then fulfilled a lifelong ambition by joining a prestigious set of legal chambers. But Constance's troubles were not over...

The Last Eunuch of China: The Life of Sun Yaoting

Publisher: China Intercontinental Press
Author: Jia Yinghua
Number of pages: 314
Price: RM30
Synopsis:
China's last eunuch Sun Yaoting died in December 1996 at age 94. He took with him intimate stories of the last vestiges of Imperial China and was himself the last in the line of eunuchs who had served the royal family for more than 2000 years. His personal journey from poor farmboy to revered servant to Pu Yi and Wanrong, China's last emperor and empress, is an amazing journey which also chronicles nearly one century of turbulence and upheaval in Chinese history and culture.

This engrossing biography by Chinese historian Jia Yinghua features first-hand accounts by Sun Yaoting of his adventures in the Forbidden City, his reunion with Pu Yi in Japanese-held Manchukuo in the 1930s, his return to 'normal' life as a community organizer in the Buddhist temple where he lives out the rest of his life.

This book is a unique glimpse into China's storied past from the perspective of a man who faithfully served China's Imperial Family in the Forbidden City but was later forced to maneuver himself among the tremendous and often turbulent events that became the history of 20th century China. As Sun Yaoting recalls his experiences, he also recounts the life of the dwindling eunuch community in China.

Blue Diary

Publisher: Berkley International Edition
Author: Alice Hoffman
Number of pages: 287
Price: RM6
Synopsis:
When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbours would guess that for more than thirteen years he has been running from his past. His true nature has been locked away, as hidden as his real identity. But sometimes locks spring open, and the devastating truths of Ethan's history shatter the small-town peace of Monroe, affecting family and friends alike.

Now, the police are at the door. Ethan Ford's life as an irreproachable family man and heroic volunteer fireman has come to an end - and Jorie Ford's life is coming apart. Some of the residents of Monroe are rallying behind Ethan. But others, including his wife and son, are wondering what remains true when so much is shown to be false - and how capable we really are of change.