Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.

Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not—strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess—and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative connection gives way to a steadfast friendship. As they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper—despite the displeasure of Achilles’ mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.

Fate is never far from the heels of Achilles. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate.

Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.

Format Paperback 368 pages | Publication Sep 2017 | Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing | Language English | ISBN13 9781408891384

A funny thing happened...

Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except...

She wasn't the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her over. But in the process, Lucy falls in love. With Gregory! Except...

Lucy is engaged. And her uncle is not inclined to let her back out of the betrothal, even once Gregory comes to his senses and realizes that it is Lucy, with her sharp wit and sunny smile, who makes his heart sing. And now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar...

Format Paperback 384 pages | Publication Feb 2021 | Publisher Little, Brown Book | Language English | ISBN13 9780349429496

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Format Hardback 560 pages | Publication Oct 2020 | Publisher Titan Books Ltd | Language English | ISBN13 9781785652509

Kaligrafi Nama Sultan-Sultan Brunei merupakan terbitan Pusat Sejarah Brunei buat pertama kali dalam bentuk kalendar. Kaligrafi Nama SultanSultan Brunei ini mengandungi nama Sultan-Sultan Brunei dari Sultan yang pertama hingga Sultan ke-29, Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu‘izzaddin Waddaulah, yang ditulis dalam beberapa jenis tulisan khat secara kreatif dan menarik. Setiap nama Sultan-Sultan Brunei memaparkan sejarah ringkas Sultan-Sultan Brunei sebagai pengetahuan orang ramai. Isi kandungan Kaligrafi Nama SultanSultan Brunei ditulis dalam dua bahasa, iaitu bahasa Melayu dan bahasa Inggeris. Tahun Terbit: 2019 a Muka Surat: 29 halaman a Ukuran: 193.7 mm x 284.2 mm

Isda does not exist. At least not beyond the opulent walls of the opera house.

Cast into a well at birth for being one of the magical few who can manipulate memories when people sing, she was saved by Cyril, the opera house’s owner. Since that day, he has given her sanctuary from the murderous world outside. All he asks in return is that she use her power to keep ticket sales high—and that she stay out of sight. For if anyone discovers she survived, Isda and Cyril would pay with their lives.

But Isda breaks Cyril’s cardinal rule when she meets Emeric Rodin, a charming boy who throws her quiet, solitary life out of balance. His voice is unlike any she’s ever heard, but the real shock comes when she finds in his memories hints of a way to finally break free of her gilded prison.

Haunted by this possibility, Isda spends more and more time with Emeric, searching for answers in his music and his past. But the price of freedom is steeper than Isda could ever know. For even as she struggles with her growing feelings for Emeric, she learns that in order to take charge of her own destiny, she must become the monster the world tried to drown in the first place.

Format Hardback 336 pages | Publication Mar 2021 | Publisher Inkyard Press | Language English | ISBN13 9781335147943

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.

If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.

In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory.

Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits—drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa.

In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder.

With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row.

The first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s life together, finally revealing why they chose to pursue a more independent path and the reasons behind their unprecedented decision to step away from their royal lives, from two top royal reporters who have been behind the scenes since the couple first met. Finding Freedom is complete with full color photographs from Harry and Meghan’s courtship, wedding, Archie’s milestones, and many more unforgettable moments.

For the first time, Finding Freedom goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghan's life together, dispelling the many rumors and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond. As members of the select group of reporters that cover the British Royal Family and their engagements, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have witnessed the young couple's lives as few outsiders can.

Format Hardback 368 pages | Publication date 2020 | Publisher HarperCollins Publishers | Language English, | ISBN13 9780063046108

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's genocidal logic in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa. Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Format Paperback 355 pages | Publication date Sep 1999 | Publisher St Martin's Press | Language English | ISBN13 9780312243357

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.

Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

Format Hardback 192 pages | Publication date Aug 2016 | Publisher Little Brown and Company | Language English | ISBN13 9780316404624

In her inimitable style--full of wit, wisdom, drama, gossip, and romance--Julia Quinn introduces the four eldest of the eight Bridgerton siblings as they maneuver through the scrutiny of London's high society and secure matches worthy of their station--and their hearts. Adored by millions of fans worldwide, these timeless stories will transport you to a world of propriety, elegance, passion, and mischief, where the charisma of one family captures the attention of the entire ton. In these four books, peppered with brilliant commentary from the keen-eyed and irrepressible gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, you will meet: Daphne Bridgerton, the eldest daughter and a diamond of the first water, in The Duke and I; Anthony Bridgerton, the eldest son and an elusive bachelor, in The Viscount Who Loved Me; Benedict Bridgerton, the handsome and romantic second son, in An Offer from a Gentleman; and Colin Bridgerton, the impeccably charming but secretive third son, in Romancing Mister Bridgerton.

Format Paperback | Publication date Apr 2021 | Publisher Little, Brown Book | Language English | ISBN13 9780349430188

Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game -- Economist

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'

A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

Format Paperback 96 pages | Publication date Jun 2017 | Publisher Penguin Books | Language English | ISBN13 9780241305164

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident.

The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.

Format Paperback 496 pages | Publication date Sep 1992 | Publisher Cornerstone | Language English | ISBN13 9780099427575

Discover Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future.

The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justice. As she rose to prominence as a political leader, her experiences would become her guiding light as she grappled with an array of complex issues and learned to bring a voice to the voiceless.

Now, in The Truths We Hold, Harris reckons with the big challenges we face together. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values as we confront the great work of our day.

Format Paperback 336 pages | Publication date Dec 2020 | Publisher Vintage Publishing | Language English | ISBN13 9781529114461

Lipan Baram merupakan gelaran yg digunakan oleh Brunei kepada penduduk pribumi di Sg Baram yg bermaksud 'Tentera Baram'. Kewujudan gelaran ini hanya dlm bentuk tradisi lisan yg ditemui dalam kalangan generasi tua penduduk pribumi di Sg Baram. Oleh itu, penemuan adalah suatu yg menarik utk dibincangkan. Gelaran ini menggambarkan sifat2 kepahlawanan dan keberanian penduduk2 pribumiBaram pada zaman dahulu sewaktu mereka berada dibawah pemerintahan Brunei.keberanian dan kecekapan mereka dalam peperangan itu sudah tentu mempunyai hubungan budaya hidup penduduk pribumi Borneo pada zaman dahulu yg bnyk bergantung kepada sifat2 keberanian utk disegani oleh2 kaum lain. Sewaktu Pusat Sejarah Brunei melakukan penyelidikan keatas kaum 'Orang Ulu' di hulu Baram,Belaga dan Bintulu pada thn 2003 telah menemui bahawa rapatnya hubungan Brunei dgn penduduk pribumi di Sg Baram sehingga wujudnya gelaran Lipan Baram ke atas mereka kerana Brunei telah menjadikan penduduk yg mendiami Sg Baram sebagai tenteranya bagi melindungi wilayah jajahan Brunei.

Older, wiser, and more deadly than ever, master assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair—a library that may hold the key to defeating the templars. However, a shocking discovery awaits him....

The library holds not only hidden knowledge but also the most unsettling secret the world has ever known, a secret the Templars hope to use to control humankind's destiny. Five keys are needed to access the library—to find them, Ezio must travel to the troubled city of Constantinople, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the Ottoman Empire.

Walking in the footsteps of his predecessor, Altair, Ezio must defeat the Templars for the final time. The stakes have never been higher, and what started as a pilgrimage has become a race against time....

Format Paperback 528 pages | Publication  Nov 2011 | Publisher Penguin Books | Language English | ISBN13 9781405943000

'What kind of president would Joe Biden make? Osnos, who has been writing about Biden for years for the New Yorker, believes he could be more radical in office than people who have tracked his career might believe ...'

The story of the man who will be the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden. 'Beautifully written... A light, enjoyable read... Osnos gives you a taste of what could be to come under a Biden presidency’ Telegraph on Joe Biden: American Dreamer

'There's just something about Joe, as this short biography from New Yorker writer Evan Osnos illustrates . . . Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Now he carries the hopes of billions upon his shoulders' Sunday Times

A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos

Format Paperback 192 pages | Publication Oct 2020 | Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Language English | ISBN13 9781526635167

Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

Format Paperback 288 pages | Publication Nov 2020 | Publisher Penguin Books | Language English | ISBN13 9789670062402

The Story of China tells a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity and deep humanity; a portrait of a country that will be of the greatest importance to the world in the twenty-first century.
China’s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.

China is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world. Michael Wood's sparkling narrative, which mingles the grand sweep with local and personal stories, woven together with the author’s own travel journals, is an enthralling account of China’s 4000-year-old tradition, taking in life stationed on the Great Wall or inside the Forbidden City. The story is enriched with the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries; correspondence and court cases going back to the Qin and Han dynasties; family letters from soldiers in the real-life Terracotta Army; stories from Silk Road merchants and Buddhist travellers, along with memoirs and diaries of  emperors, poets and peasants.  

A compelling portrait of a single civilisation over an immense period of time, the book is full of intimate detail and colourful voices, taking us from the desolate Mongolian steppes to the ultra-modern world of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It also asks what were the forces that have kept China together for so long? Why was China overtaken by the west after the 18th century? What lies behind China’s extraordinary rise today? 

Format Paperback 624 pages | Publication Sep 2020 | Publisher Simon & Schuster | Language English | ISBN13 9781471175992

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“Painful, joyous... A story that cries out to be told.” —Los Angeles Times

“Kim is a brilliant new voice in American fiction.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“Suspenseful and deeply felt.” —Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists

A profoundly moving and unconventional mother-daughter saga, The Last Story of Mina Lee illustrates the devastating realities of being an immigrant in America.

Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the tenuous invisible strings that held together her single mother's life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother.

Interwoven with Margot's present-day search is Mina's story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While she's barely earning a living by stocking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing Mina ever expects is to fall in love. But that love story sets in motion a series of events that have consequences for years to come, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death.

Told through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other, The Last Story of Mina Lee is a powerful and exquisitely woven debut novel that explores identity, family, secrets, and what it truly means to belong. 

Format Paperback 384 pages | Publication Sep 2020 | Publisher Park Row | Language English | ISBN13 9780778311171

Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell's new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don't; of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us? Utopia means 'nowhere' but could a shinier world be within grasp, if only we had a map? 

Format Paperback 576 pages | Publication: Jul 2020 | Publisher HODDER & STOUGHTON | Language English | ISBN13 9781444799439

Buku ini menyorot secara ilmiah aspek perkembangan Islam di Borneo menerusi pespektif ekonomi Islam, institusi halal dan pendidikan. Perbincangan berkaitan dengan perkembangan ekonomi Islam di Borneo menyentuh peranan zakat, wakaf dan aplikasi perbankan Islam. Manakala perbahasan berkaitan halal pula meliputi kesedaran dan cabaran institusi fatwa menangani isu halal serta pengaruh persekitaran dalam membentuk permakanan selain perbincangan mengenai halal dari aspek kajian sains dan teknologi.Buku ini seterusnya membincangkan tentang perkembangan pendidikan Islam di Pulau Borneo menerusi perbahasan berkaitan isu pengislaman ilmu pendidikan dan perkembangan pendidikan pra-sekolah. Perbahasan seterusnya turut mengetengahkan perbincangan berkenaan dengan usaha merealisasikan negara zikir melalui media cetak dan elektronik serta pengamalan budaya kerja yang cemerlang dalam organisasi menurut perspektif Islam. Authors: Firdaus Abdullah, Jamil Hamali, Abdul Kadir Rosline, Norarfan Zainal, Rahmat Soe'eod, M.Syahiran A. Latif & Saimi Bujang / Cover: Paperback / Language: MALAY / Publisher: UNISSA Press 2017 / Condition: NEW / Pages: 218 / ISBN: 9789991782706

Seperti yang kita ketahui Abdul Rahman bin Auf ini dikenali sebagai seorang Jutawan Islam. Buku ini juga ada menceritakan sedikit sebanyak kaedah dan akhlak beliau ketika berniaga. Lia suggest sangat buku ini untuk dibaca oleh para peniaga kita sekarang dengan harapan roh berniaga cara ISLAM akan kembali mewarnai ekonomi ummah kita. Berniaga kerana ALLAH swt. Bagaimana? Selamilah cara sahabat Rasulullah s.a.w ini. Semoga ALLAH swt tunjukkan jalan buat kita...inshaALLAH. 

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