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Sarah Amani is a Worldsmith. At eighteen, she accidentally conjured a mythical world called Lagenda with the help of a past lover, Malik. Five years had passed and she was on a straight path to healing and moving on. She made sure nobody could enter Lagenda again and only allowed people to come in as wanderers by giving them petals as tickets. It was her way of ensuring that Lagenda remained hers without destroying it. Just when she thought she could leave her past, she was Learn MoreUSUAL: RM45.00NOW: RM 36.00 (-20%)
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Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party. Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect. A prestigious school for young magicians, the Gali Learn MoreUSUAL: RM57.50NOW: RM 46.00 (-20%)
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Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare. Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year-old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When her long distance boyfriend in New York invites her to meet him in Florida, she couldn’t wait to jump on a plane with her toddler. Arriving with her teething child at her boyfriend’s Key West ‘vacay home’ before him, she is robbed o Learn MoreUSUAL: RM74.95NOW: RM 59.96 (-20%)
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Each petal of roses is a breath of miracle for a life ignites as the roses blossom. Each petal of roses is a harsh reality for the thorns prick you as the hues of red taint you. The touch of thorns may cut you but your time to bloom shall come for you are a masterpiece whose life is a garden of roses. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM28.00NOW: RM 22.40 (-20%)
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With Heartbroken Melancholy, let’s embark on a healing journey by taking the first step in the healing process; acceptance. A book that is worthy as a loyal companion for you to have your voiceless thoughts be heard and your anguish be empathized with. Together, let’s acknowledge our pain and heal. Heartbroken Melancholy is a collection of poetry and prose that resonates with melancholy within us. This book explores the raw emotions of heartbreak, either because of a pas Learn MoreUSUAL: RM35.00NOW: RM 28.00 (-20%)
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With all these in mind, this is not a body of work for you to consume in one sitting; it is something you can read once a day, crack open random pages, and read at your own leisure and pace. Some poems may have closer connection to the others, but they remain to be consumed no-stress, bite-size, per diem. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM35.00NOW: RM 28.00 (-20%)
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Northern Malaya, 1825. Princess Toh has been left in charge of the palace while her brother is away fighting, but her violent husband is causing trouble in her court. Meanwhile, Aashif, who was trekking through the jungle, stumbles upon a girl who has been brutally assaulted and left to die. Back at the palace, the traumatised young man decides to escape and seek freedom; together with Princess Toh's maid, he sets out on a perilous journey. Distraught at this news, Toh pledge Learn MoreUSUAL: RM80.95NOW: RM 64.76 (-20%)
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In modern-day China, a man has travelled to Shanghai on impulse to meet his online lover Luna, but she refuses to see him and soon disappears without a trace. He tries to forget her by immersing himself in dating apps, and also learns to appreciate the nuances within everyday Chinese life while he adjusts himself to mainland China as a member of the greater overseas Chinese diaspora. As the seasons change he falls in love with a budding photographer named Sofia, but with trac Learn MoreUSUAL: RM74.95NOW: RM 59.96 (-20%)
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Not Quite Alone serves as a poignant introduction to the emotional rollercoaster within its pages. Readers are invited to delve into a world where unfamiliar emotions are laid bare, inviting a sense of connection and shared humanity. As the pages unfold, it becomes evident that the feelings explored here are not isolated experiences but universal threads that bind us all. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM49.90NOW: RM 39.92 (-20%)
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Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, year: 1998. Seng Boo, 16, has a hard time adjusting to life in the squalor of the warehouse he shares with his family and relatives near the pig farms. The recurring nightmares of fires in the warehouse, coupled with other bizarre scenes continue to distress him. Meningitis, dengue fever, and Japanese encephalitis had all contributed to a sudden spike in cases of respiratory illness in the area. The incidence rates kept rising despite widespread Learn MoreUSUAL: RM38.00NOW: RM 30.40 (-20%)
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"The road less traveled really is hard. There's no map, no manual. It's just you trying to figure things out as you go along, all the while hoping you don't lose yourself or your humanity." After suffering from a tragedy, Abby picks up the pieces of her broken self while still being plagued by the consequences of her impulsive actions. But words from the millennial bible – "Adulting is hard" – follow her like a curse as she struggles to not fall into the trap of bad deci Learn MoreUSUAL: RM24.90NOW: RM 19.92 (-20%)
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The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from colonial Burma in the 1930s to nationalist Malaysia in the 1990s and beyond, to Hong Kong and Australia. The reader is thrust into the lives of far-flung middle-class Indian communities: immersed in family and local politics and intimate relationships, swept along in the tide of grand historical events. History works in cycles, repeating itself, until we finally und Learn MoreUSUAL: RM50.00NOW: RM 40.00 (-20%)
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In 2012, sixteen-year-old troublemaker Kei and his mother move into a decaying low-cost flat from the slums at the edge of town, right next to Maryam, a young mother, and her three-year-old son Ishak. Shunned by society, Kei and Maryam develop an unspoken bond, which starts to fray as the ghosts of their pasts circle in. Both wonder if they can free themselves of the men who made them the abominations everyone considers them to be, and of the despair creeping in around them. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM35.00NOW: RM 28.00 (-20%)
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THE BIG BOOK OF MALAYSIAN HORROR STORIES takes us from terrors that are mythological and historical to contemporary and technological. The biggest Fixi Novo anthology yet is set in various states in Malaysia, but the most common states are Darul Distress and Negeri Scary. These brand-new stories are complemented by Chin Yew's equally spooky illustrations. Featuring the following writers: ATIKAH Wahid BISSME S. Adrian CHASE Joni CH'NG Eileyn CHUA CHUA Kok Yee HADI M. N Learn MoreUSUAL: RM40.00NOW: RM 32.00 (-20%)
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Geetha’s seemingly perfect world is shattered when she loses her husband of five years, forcing her into a period of introspection. Her younger brother, Yuva, has to confront his own prejudices as his relationship with his partner gradually crumbles by the day. Sabitha-their cousin and the youngest of the three-is about to reveal a secret that she had kept from her family for many years, and has to live with the repercussions. As they deal with their personal troubles, the Learn MoreUSUAL: RM74.95NOW: RM 59.96 (-20%)
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This is Me is a collection of raw, tangled volatile poems splashed with reality and laced with fantasy that flow into two directions: One circling the theme of the book, a puzzle set of fictional characters who are regarded to be the closest to the author’s heart, and another girding the sentiment of the lost, wandering and torn souls, which is also based on the contributed words from the poetry prompt. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM32.00NOW: RM 25.60 (-20%)
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A Treasury of Divine Poetry is a second book by Asyiqin Al-Shaeir. As the name suggests, 'A Treasury of Divine Poetry' is aptly named as it truly is a treasury. Each poem reveals gems of wisdom from our great Creator and awakens our sleeping conscious to realize what our true path and destiny really is. Listen to the beat of your heart. It has a story to tell you. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM33.00NOW: RM 26.40 (-20%)
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He is no longer him, today. At ten, he saw a chicken beheaded in his backyard, he too, an accomplice. He roamed his village, sometimes barefoot, wading through streams, backyards of his neighbors’ houses where young men were high, smoking ganja. He once saw a group of men in red headbands with Arabic words on them, ready to march to the capital city to slaughter many. He fought demons, wept when the family dog died battling a cobra. He saw men in a trance, munching on broke Learn MoreUSUAL: RM80.95NOW: RM 64.76 (-20%)
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It was the dry season, when all Kelantan bursts into artistic bloom, with theatre and contests and all manner of entertainment staged in the dry rice paddies, which were now cracked and flat and hard as rock. A large group of men readied themselves for a top spinning contest: those in charge of the tops rotating their shoulders and loosening their already prominent biceps. Others, who would watch the tops spin and calculate which had done so the longest, were smoothing the gr Learn MoreUSUAL: RM44.90NOW: RM 35.92 (-20%)
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Poethree O'Clock is a special compilation of Charissa Ong Ty's best-selling books, "Midnight Monologues", "Daylight Dialogues"; along with a new illustrated short story poetry book, "What Does Your Name Mean." This English poetry boxset is the first of its kind in Malaysia. A timeless collectible, this piece of artwork is crafted carefully and beautifully for the pleasure of her current and future readers. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM118.00NOW: RM 94.40 (-20%)
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The winner of the 2nd Fixi Novo Malaysian Novel Contest Inspector Dominic Wong was part of a task force to catch Shadowman, who started abducting and murdering children a decade earlier. The nickname stuck because many believed there was a supernatural element in the cases. Inspector Nadra Sunai's ordeal begins when a child is abducted right under her nose. Nadra sees a white-haired man together with the girl, but her partner doesn't. The case gets another twist when the ki Learn MoreUSUAL: RM21.90NOW: RM 17.52 (-20%)
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Words and actions can mean a thousand things in any mortality case, but only the body can provide the truth to decipher the cause of death. Dr Rohayu, a forensic pathologist, knows she has a duty to the dead and lives by the statement, ‘a dead body never lies’. She has taken the unsaid oath to be the voice of and safeguard the ones who are not able to tell their story. With Malaysia’s diverse melting pot of race, culture, and religion, Dr Rohayu has been through a pleth Learn MoreUSUAL: RM80.95NOW: RM 64.76 (-20%)
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"Raja Perita Deria, is a carefree and arrogant seventeen-year-old; and his story begins with a seemingly ordinary night out with his close friends. However, a chance encounter with a bewitchingly beautiful woman in an abandoned temple, almost ends his life and changes him irrevocably. After an incident involving the cook, and a dish of bayam, tainted with blood, he discovers that he needs blood to heal and for sustenance. As heir to the throne of Langkasuka, the prince is als Learn MoreUSUAL: RM62.95NOW: RM 50.36 (-20%)
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Romy smiled disarmingly at the Datin. But with her Versace shades still firmly on and her Cassey Gan mask drawn equally firmly across her face, it was akin to trying to make eye contact with a ninja… PI Romy is a small-time detective, working the angles to cari makan in a KL on the brink of dystopia because of Covid. Plagued by the demons of his own past, he stolidly bumbles along through life in his socially awkward way, beguiled yet bemused by the antics of his atas cli Learn MoreUSUAL: RM21.90NOW: RM 17.52 (-20%)
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Promising sun, sea, sand and more, Pattaya in Thailand lures eight million foreign tourists annually. However, behind the glitter lurks broken dreams, ethereal ecstasy and, often, tragedy. And behind every bargirl s smile and every foreigner s beer glass lurks a story: happy, touching, heart-wrenching. The author interviews bargirls, mamasans and customers, who reveal true stories of sex scams, doomed relationships and tragic suicides. The author s investigation takes him to Learn MoreUSUAL: RM39.90NOW: RM 31.92 (-20%)
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A showcase of the phases and moments in life, many of which arc simple but beautiful. The book is a collection of inspirations and realizations from the past decade; the uncertainty that comes with getting lost in the early 20s, coupled with the maturity that comes from finding slight wisdom in the late 20s. We arc a generation protected from many hardships, which in turn makes us fragile when life throws us curveballs. These words reassure that it is okay to be broken. It ho Learn MoreUSUAL: RM43.00NOW: RM 34.40 (-20%)
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The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories is a collection of 18 slice-of-life short stories featuring nuanced and diverse depictions of the Indian community in Malaysia. The overall theme of this collection echoes the outer and inner demons that possess the Malaysian Indian community. Specifically, the stories dictate the outlook of their lives as both Indians and Malaysians. The collection covers themes such as socio-politics, socio-economic imbalance, gender issues, social cla Learn MoreUSUAL: RM87.50NOW: RM 70.00 (-20%)
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Nusantara – A Sea of Tales is the most comprehensive collection of folk tales, fairy tales, myths and legends from the Nusantara and Southeast Asian region, and was written to sit alongside the great anthologies of folklore from other parts of the world. Although it is impossible to trace the origins of most of these traditional tales, we do know that these stories were used as a means to discover ourselves and the world around us. Like a living creature, these tales came Learn MoreUSUAL: RM74.95NOW: RM 59.96 (-20%)
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After suffering strokes, general practitioner Dr. Idayu Maarof underwent major surgery to remove a heart valve tumour believed to have caused the strokes. Unfortunately, what seemed to be the end of a journey was only the beginning of an even more arduous one. Her symptoms evolved to multiple episodes of daily seizures. To control the seizures, she was put in a medically induced coma. A mysterious brain lesion became the prime suspect, but no one was certain. She later underw Learn MoreUSUAL: RM74.95NOW: RM 59.96 (-20%)
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Winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022 Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its bak kwa. But when Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim, her newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Set in Kuala Lumpur and other areas of Malaysia, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies, and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the Learn MoreUSUAL: RM55.90NOW: RM 44.72 (-20%)
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The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men. When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so she can have a sea view, that he knows more about the island than she does, and worst of all, that he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins. Wh Learn MoreUSUAL: RM46.95NOW: RM 37.56 (-20%)
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Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality ti Learn MoreUSUAL: RM42.50NOW: RM 34.00 (-20%)
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Plum Sykes meets Amy Tan in this outrageously funny debut novel about three superrich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. Learn MoreUSUAL: RM42.50NOW: RM 34.00 (-20%)
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If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don't polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks. Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh's childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of 'wisdom' daily. She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly forbidden, pointin Learn MoreUSUAL: RM80.50NOW: RM 64.40 (-20%)
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An ambitious career woman signs up for a co-parenting website only to find a match she never expected, in this unflinchingly funny and honest novel from the author of Last Tang Standing. Management consultant Lucie Yi is done waiting for Mr. Right. After a harrowing breakup foiled her plans for children--and drove her to a meltdown in a Tribeca baby store--she's ready to take matters into her own hands. She signs up for an elective co-parenting website to find a suitable p Learn MoreUSUAL: RM57.50NOW: RM 46.00 (-20%)
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At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore's hottest clubs. All she has to do is make law partner, and her life will be perfect. And if she's about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan--a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian family won't let her forget--well, she doesn't need a man to complete he Learn MoreUSUAL: RM57.95NOW: RM 46.36 (-20%)
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Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones's Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one's thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore's hottest clubs. All she has to do is make law partner, and her life will be perfect. And if she's about to bec Learn MoreUSUAL: RM57.95NOW: RM 46.36 (-20%)
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Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a crime. A young girl steals her grandmother’s jade bracelet. A Malay man collects the blonde hair of a British teenager he is transfixed with, and a young woman feeds human blood to a frangipani tree. There’s right and wrong in this world. Or is there? This collection of fourteen stories explores the grey and amoral lives of ordinary – and not so ordinary – Malaysians and Singaporeans looking to carve their place in the wo Learn MoreUSUAL: RM62.95NOW: RM 50.36 (-20%)
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These short poems pulse with tensions between "I and You," bodies and minds. Opening with rejoicing union in Being, they play complications of non-binary love in tolling, as Donne wrote, that "no man is an island." Becoming his "own man," the poet claims variations of loneliness, I without You, wryly, with self-conscious humour, "sipping gin, having run out of tonic." Read these poems for their tonic effect on your spirits! Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Professor Emerita, University Learn MoreUSUAL: RM20.00NOW: RM 16.00 (-20%)
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After the relative drought during the years since Malaysia first took to the vocation of writing verse in English in the nineteen fifties. we now have in this collection of poems by Malaysia millennials signs of coming shower. By their numbers, they show more clearly than before their diversity in communal origins, gender, cultural interest, and regional spread. As Malaysians, they have arrived, making a home here for poetry in English. Gone is the angst of the poets who bega Learn MoreUSUAL: RM25.00NOW: RM 20.00 (-20%)
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“This collection is of poems by young poets who write with a keen awareness of the important issues of the day. This speaks well not only of the poets themselves but also of our urban educated youth. This augurs well for our future. The poems taken together are a sign of that.” — Wong Phui Nam, Malaysian poet “A necessary collection of Malaysian poetry to mark an era and inspire the next.” — Melizarani T. Selva, spoken word poet, author of ‘Taboo’ and co-foun Learn MoreUSUAL: RM20.00NOW: RM 16.00 (-20%)
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Malachi Edwin's poems map out the condition of modern love in this country. It is a comprehensive map of 215t century love and its losses and failures. — Wong Phui Nam, poet and critic Deceptively simple and ingenuous, Malachi Edwin's unpretentious poems risk schmaltz by taking on the largest topic of love: what love can still mean in our age of political correctness, especially in the less knowable ways in which love transcends the body and the interpersonal self. — Cy Learn MoreUSUAL: RM25.00NOW: RM 20.00 (-20%)
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The life of a woman, no matter who she is or where she might be, typically encompasses loss and longing, despair and courage, regret and love. She Never Looks Quite Back murmurs of such experiences and more. The stories depict themes of growing up, social unrest, nature, war, migration, reconciliation, sensuality, infidelity and the pandemic. The narratives allow glimpses into lives conflicted by chance and choice... women who find themselves in the most extraordinary circums Learn MoreUSUAL: RM68.95NOW: RM 55.16 (-20%)
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After twenty years of searching, King Waluyo finally gets his son back. He cannot understand why his beloved younger wife had insisted that their son become a monk. What was she hiding from him? Why did she want to separate their only child from him? When he learns that Alak Tegoh the crown prince is not his biological son, he realises that Queen Megabintang may have poisoned his other children. To protect his only living child and the people of his kingdom, Waluyo must use a Learn MoreUSUAL: RM74.95NOW: RM 59.96 (-20%)
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Life in 16th-century Malacca—as it is in Malaysia today—was centered on power and politics, trade and commerce, rivalry and strife, race and religion, and war and peace. As the leading entrepot of the Nusantara, Malacca grew rich and prosperous. Then things took a familiar turn. The political ethos of the inward-looking and self-serving ruling elite had begun to change for the worse. Bent on enjoying the trappings of wealth and power, they ignored the needs and well-bein Learn MoreUSUAL: RM42.00NOW: RM 33.60 (-20%)
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Crying doesn't mean you’re questioning God’s plan. It means that you’re human. ”Sarah—now a full-fledged lawyer, struggling to balance her work and life. As Sarah and her friends were tussling to adjust with adulthood, Jonah the ‘Romeo’ started a new religious journey. Just when she thought life was about to get rosy, test and hardships came rolling in. Sarah was taunted and accused of being barren by a family member and had to ward off a shameless seducer awa Learn MoreUSUAL: RM35.00NOW: RM 28.00 (-20%)
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Sarah—an introvert and a law student in England, struggling to stay true as a Muslim. Things started to go wrong when Sarah crossed paths with Linda. Everything about Sarah irked Linda, especially her outdated and devout lifestyle. Whilst Sarah endured the backlash from her peers, Jonah–the ‘Romeo’, came into her life and attempted to woo her like the other women he had charmed. While Sarah endured the nightmare of vicious rumors and being ostracized, Linda was surp Learn MoreUSUAL: RM35.00NOW: RM 28.00 (-20%)
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“If you love Allah and take care of your relationship with Him, He will take care of the people whom you love." *** Amy is a 30-year-old doctor who strives to live a meaningful life, choosing to focus on enjoying the company of her friends and committed in nurturing her faith. The unexpected presence of someone from her friend’s past stirs up feelings within her. What she was afraid to dream of before this, presented itself to her like a ray of hope from God. Just as Learn MoreUSUAL: RM30.00NOW: RM 24.00 (-20%)
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Hassan sat down next to his mom and dad as he stared vacantly at the grave. He felt numb. His other siblings were behind him, sobbing quietly. The imam began his sermon. Hassan’s mind started drifting off. He wondered if the body inside the grave will be okay. Will he be lonely? Will he be afraid? He wondered if the body can still hear them. Hassan’s own tears rolled down his cheeks. He felt a lump in his throat. The tragedy has shreds the heart to pieces. Hassan never k Learn MoreUSUAL: RM30.00NOW: RM 24.00 (-20%)
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Twenty-two women journalists in Southeast Asia share their personal experiences in essays spanning politics, culture, travel, human interest and lifestyle. In these insightful and compelling essays, the former and current journalists take us through the journey as a woman covering news in male-dominant newsroom culture while keeping eyes on the ground. The Stories Women Journalists Tell is an inspiring collection of essays that celebrates kinships, camaraderie and strength, w Learn MoreUSUAL: RM101.50NOW: RM 81.20 (-20%)
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Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago. The 18th-century Straits of Malacca is in crisis, beleaguered by the Dutch, the Bugis, and the clash between Siam and Burma. Enter Francis Light, devious manipulator of the status quo, joined by a cast of real historical figures from the courts of Siam and Kedah and from the East India Company, including Sultan Muhammed Jiwa, King Tak Sin, Warren Hastings an Learn MoreUSUAL: RM49.90NOW: RM 39.92 (-20%)
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In this second volume of Penang Chronicles, the eponymous pearl, Martinha Rozells, embodies the diverse heritages of the Straits of Malacca in the 18th century. From her birth in Phuket to her childhood at the court of Kedah, we enter the fascinating world of a well-born woman of the Indies. Meanwhile her new husband, Francis Light, is still the dragon in search of his elusive pearl: a British settlement on the Straits of Malacca. From the courts of Siam and Kedah, to captur Learn MoreUSUAL: RM49.90NOW: RM 39.92 (-20%)
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Part 3 of Rose Gan's Penang Chronicles series, Emporium sees Francis Light's dream of a British East India Company settlement east of India - and crucially on the China trade route - come to fruition. A paradise on earth. Penang - the Pearl of the Orient - has fulfilled its promise, becoming the most vibrant port in the Indies in a few short years. But paradise comes at a price for Francis Light and his family. Penang's meteoric rise from deserted island to thriving port att Learn MoreUSUAL: RM49.90NOW: RM 44.91 (-10%)
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Jeffri used to run with a street gang when growing up in KL, but is now a criminal lawyer with his own small firm. He's also down on his luck. One day his old college buddy Kim On Juan (OJ) - also a lawyer but with a successful family-owned firm - offers him a lifeline in the form of some lucrative work. Jeffri and his sole employee are grateful for the help. But things take a turn for the worse when OJ's father exits the window of their Jalan Ampang office without a parachu Learn MoreUSUAL: RM21.90NOW: RM 17.52 (-20%)
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Being Born by Shivani Sivagurunathan brings to the fore a poet of the Indian diaspora, one who sketches out the contour and its special confluence of Tamil and Malaysian cultures. As expected, her language is tropical and redolent, like the lines in "Day at the Mosque" — "the vellum goes the great way, / across fish ranging the hot soups of these / waters and the quiet lulls of those nearer / to the way my nipple cracks when it faces / the blue of twilight" The poet invokes Learn MoreUSUAL: RM25.00NOW: RM 20.00 (-20%)
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The bestselling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess. A young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm, setting her on a dangerous path where those she loves are not the only ones at risk... *THE INSTANT TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* THERE ARE MANY LEGENDS ABOUT MY MOTHER... Raised far away on the moon, Xingyin was unaware she was being hidden from the Celestial Emperor - who exi Learn MoreUSUAL: RM64.95NOW: RM 51.96 (-20%)
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