The Bomoh's Apprentice by Geoffrey S. Walker

Tragically orphaned at the age of three, Kutu is adopted by the animist bomoh of Kampung Pokok Tertinggi in the wilds of Borneo. Over the course of the next thirteen years, the powerful sorcerer schools the boy in the supernatural arts, preparing him to take his place when he himself must leave on a perilous quest in the service of the tree-god he worships.

Before he can be inducted into the office he is fated to hold, disaster strikes, and Kutu the boy-bomoh suddenly finds himself alone in the world—separated perhaps forever from his adoptive father and cast out by the villagers he had been trained to serve. Will his magical powers suffice to overcome the dangers he must face if he hopes to survive?

A spellbinding fantasy that celebrates the timeless, exotic allure of the Land Below the Wind, The Bomoh’s Apprentice will delight readers of all ages with its rich cast of characters and the thrilling twists and turns of its plot.

Geoffrey S. Walker

Geoffrey S. Walker first read about Borneo as a young boy and his fascination with the island has stayed with him ever since. In 2004, following a successful career in advertising, he left the United States and settled in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. As a member of the Sabah Society, he has had the opportunity to explore many parts of Borneo that are well off the beaten track, and these experiences helped shape his first novel, The Bomoh’s Apprentice. Besides working on the first sequel, he is also compiling a book of children’s nonsense verse.

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What You Ought To Do Now: Tap into the Secret of Sales Sccess Now!

Bochi is an extraordinary vibrant leader who once had fear of holding a microphone to speak. Today, she represents great hope to many who wants to transform and do well because she is eloquent, inspiring and full of wisdom. Bochi was also the top graduate of the Master Trainer Academy and an outstanding recipient of many awards including the Multi Millionaire Award and Super Energizer Award.”

All About Claypot

This book features 25 classic and tantalising claypot recipes, including claypot dishes, rice and soup. It teaches you how to choose and maintain the pot, as well as select, handle and cook the ingredients. It allows you to ecperience the gastronomic wonders of claypot with ease and fills your home with heart-warming aromas and tastes of joy.

All About Deep Frying

Deep-fried food can be crunchy, succulent and delectably non-greasy if it is cooked the right way. With the right techniques, you can deep-fry food by sealing in flavour and juices without making it laden with fat. The result is the lightest and most satisfying food that everyone crave.

Packed with cooking tips, hints and techniques, learn how to prepare, how to accentuate the flavour, how to cook and how to make food look good.

Iskandar Malaysia: A Story of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

A story of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur is based on the past historical land ownership and current negotiations between both Governments on the piece of KTM land belonging to Malaysia in Singapore.

Under the Sun by O Thiam Chin

From the author of Never Been Better and Free-Falling Man comes a new collection of flash fiction that brings to life a world of secrets, joy, grief and longing that lie beneath the ordinary and mundane. Under the Sun offers unflinching snapshots of everyday life, encapsulating the gritty and real, the subtle and extreme in fifty stories that surprise, reveal and evoke the strange and familiar, whether on the fringes or in the mainstream.

From murders to mysterious disappearances, from distorted childhood memories to unfulfilled desires, from flights of fantasy to brutal ruptures of reality, Under the Sun delivers more of O Thiam Chin’s keen and honest observations of human flaws and foibles, and imbues the fleeting and revelatory moments of life with mystery and unembellished truths.

O Thiam Chin

O Thiam Chin is a Singapore-born writer whose stories have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Best of Singapore Erotica, Silverfish New Writing 6 and Body2Body. His début collection of stories, Free-Falling Man, was published in 2006, followed by a second collection, Never Been Better, in 2009, which was longlisted for the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

Once A Jolly Hangman by Alan Shadrake

Non-Fiction

1. Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice In The Dock by Alan Shadrake

2. Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain

3. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

4. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

5. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

6. How to Develop a Super Power Memory: Tips to Developing Amazing Memory Capabilities by Harry Lorayne

7. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

8. Eat Pray Love (Movie-Tie In): One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

9. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

10. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

Business and Management

1. The Lazy Millionaire by Marc Fisher

2. Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki; Sharon L. Lechter

3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

4. Niche Dominators: Success Secrets Exposed by Thomas Fernandez; Sant Qiu

5. A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing by Jim Rogers

6. The Choice Is Yours by John C. Maxwell

7. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book of Value Investing by Benjamin Graham

8. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

9. Profit From The Asian Recovery by Adam Khoo; Jason Wee

10. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful! by Marshall Goldsmith

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

2. The Last Song (Movie Tie-in) by Nicholas Sparks

3. Dear John (Movie Tie-in) by Nicholas Sparks

4. Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw

5. The Book Of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern

6. Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness by Tilly Bagshawe

7. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

8. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

9. Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly

10. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

The Power by Rhonda Byrne

Non-Fiction

1. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

2. Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice In The Dock by Alan Shadrake

3. Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain

4. Eat Pray Love (Movie Tie-In): One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

5. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

6. The Present: The Gift That Makes You Happy and Successful at Work and in Life by Spencer Johnson

7. 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself : Change Your Life Forever by Steve Chandler

8. Follow Your Heart: Finding Purpose in Your Life and Work by Andrew Matthews

9. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

10. The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease & Barbara Pease

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

2. Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

3. Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness by Tilly Bagshawe

4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

5. The Last Song (Movie Tie-in) by Nicholas Sparks

6. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

7. Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger

8. Under The Dome by Stephen King

9. Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

10. Men From Boys by Tony Parsons

Local Author

1. Indahnya Hidup Bersyariat (Panduan Fardu Ain Lengkap Bergambar) by Dato’ Ismail Kamus & Mohd Azrul Azlen

2. Indahnya Amalan Doa by Dato’ Ismail Kamus

3. Setiap Hari Adalah Honeymoon: Tip & Teknik yang Romantik untuk Memulihkan Cinta (Panduan Amali untuk Mewujudkan dan Memulihkan Keajaiban Cinta Selepas Perkahwinan) by Kamarudin Ibnu Mikam

4. Iskandar Malaysia: A Story of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur by Ho Chin Soon

5. Tasawuf Kontemporari: Implementasi, Tasawuf dalam Dunia Kini by Mohammad Nidzam Abd Kadir

6. Bila Allah Menduga Kita by Syed Alwi Al-Atas

7. Mama Saya Lapar by Wardina Saffiyah

8. Hidup Bukan Rahsia: Anda, Saya dan Kita: 18 Kisah Penuh Inspirasi Berasaskan Kehidupan Seharian Seorang Muslim by Zabrina A. Bakar

9. Palestin Tak Pernah Gentar! Fatwa Kontemporari dan Penyelesaiannya (Memburu Menang atau Syahid) by Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri & Fatimah Syarha Mohd Noordin

10. Ketuk-Ketuk Sheila Rusly by Sheila Rusly

Weekly list compiled by MPH Bookstores, Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness.

Shep Knacker has long saved for “The Afterlife”: an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Traffic jams on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be replaced with “talking, thinking, seeing, and being”—and enough sleep. When he sells his home repair business for a cool million dollars, his dream finally seems within reach. Yet Glynis, his wife of twenty-six years, has concocted endless excuses why it’s never the right time to go. Weary of working as a peon for the jerk who bought his company, Shep announces he’s leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her.

Just returned from a doctor’s appointment, Glynis has some news of her own: Shep can’t go anywhere because she desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep’s nest egg for The Afterlife soon cracks under the strain.

Enriched with three medical subplots that also explore the human costs of American health care, So Much for That follows the profound transformation of a marriage, for which grave illness proves an unexpected opportunity for tenderness, renewed intimacy, and dry humor. In defiance of her dark subject matter, Shriver writes a page-turner that presses the question: How much is one life worth?

Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize–winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications. She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.

Clutch, Brake, Sellerator and Other Stories

From a shape-shifting tigress, a brave tribal warrior and a mother who will do anything to protect her child, to a young girl who observes and experiences a loss of innocence, a town with seemingly immortal inhabitants and a boy whose life changes forever after his driving lessons, this collection of stories from the winner and shortlisted writers of the MPH-Alliance Bank National Short Story Prize 2009 demonstrates the diverse imagination and skill of Malaysian writers who are published, unpublished or have attempted the short-story form for the very first time.

The competition was organized in 2009 to promote the short-story form, to discover new writers and to encourage existing writers to continue honing their craft. Comprising stories by the joint winners of the Prize – Tan Twan Eng and Ivan Yeo – and the shortlisted writers, Vincent Foo, Zed Adam Idris, Shih- Li Kow and Lee Eeleen, this collection not only entertains but also showcases the finest new writing in Malaysian fiction today.

The Power by Rhonda Byrne

Non-Fiction

1. The Power by Rhonda Byrne

2. Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock by Alan Shadrake

3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

4. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams And Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

5. Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain

6. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

7. The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease

8. It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden

9. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

10. The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

3. Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

4. Tough Customer by Sandra Brown

5. Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness by Tilly Bagshawe

6. The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth

7. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

8. The Last Song (Movie Tie-In) by Nicholas Sparks

9. A Rogue Of My Own: When Hatred Turns To Desire by Johanna Lindsey

10. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

Local Author

1. Indahnya Hidup Bersyariat (Panduan Fardu Ain Lengkap Bergambar) by Dato’ Ismail Kamus & Mohd Azrul Azlen

2. Pemilik Cintaku Setelah Allah dan Rasul by Fatimah Syarha Mohd Noordin

3. I Don’t Know You But Let Me Save You: A Liver Donor Recounts Her Journey by Hoong Ling

4. Indahnya Amalan Doa by Dato’ Ismail Kamus

5. Mama Saya Lapar by Wardina Safiyyah

6. Tasawuf Kontemporari: Implementasi, Tasawuf dalam Dunia Kini by Mohammad Nidzam Abd Kadir

7. Infinite Wealth: How Two Proven Stock Investment Processes Could Generate Impressive Returns Even During a Market Downturn by Lai Seng Choy

8. Aku Terima Nikahnya: Pelikkah Cinta Tanpa Berkenalan, Keluar Makan-Makan, Berbalas Emel dan SMS? by Hasrizal Abdul Jamil

9. Riba dan Isu Kewangan Semasa: Keingkaran Menempah Ancaman by Zaharuddin Abd. Rahman

10. Iskandar Malaysia: A Story of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur by Ho Chin Soon

Weekly list compiled by MPH Bookstores, Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur