Mother's Day is just around the corner. May 9th celebrated and our Mother's Day promotion will last a week from the day itself. For all Mother's Day books promotion, Daily Books is giving you a 20% of all purchases under the promotion title.
*This promotion is only applicable for magazines purchases above RM10.00 and online orders only. For more information on this promotion, please do not hesitate to call us.
Dear John (Paperback, Movie-Tie-In)
Nicholas Sparks
RM 34.90
RM 27.90 (20%)
Dear John is Nicholas Sparks' latest novel. I've read all of Sparks' books and I have my favorites, such as The Notebook, and now Dear John is on my list of favorites too.
It's a touching story of young love that lasts a lifetime. The main character, John Tyree, first met the love of his life, Savannah Curtis, on the beach in North Carolina. At the time, John was home visiting his father while on a short leave from the military. Savannah, a college student, was in town with some of her peers working on a Habitat for Humanity project.
The two were an unlikely pair from the beginning. John was somewhat of a rebel who ran off right after high school to join the Army, while Savannah was a pure, hardworking, Southern girl. But, as they say, opposites attract. From the beginning, theirs was a powerful bond that unfortunately was always separated by time and distance. John had his obligations to his military duty and Savannah had her obligations to completing her education.
However, the two remained very committed to each other, despite their distance, until the unexpected events of September 11th changed everything, not only for the world, but also for this young couple's future.
A novel like this makes you wonder about all the people who pass through our lives and how often a single incident can change fate forever. It's a very endearing and heartwarming story about love and sacrifice. If you decide to check it out, my only recommendation is that you might want to have some tissue nearby!
Review by ezinearticles
Lavender Morning(Paperback)
Jude Deveraux
RM 35.50
RM 28.40 (20%)
"A fabulous family drama"
In Williamsburg, Virginia, the parents of Jocelyn "Joce" Minton come from different sides of the track. Her mom was the upper class elite debutante while her dad was a working class handyman. When Joce was five years old, her mom died. Her father remarried someone from his side of the tracks. Joce's maternal relatives cut her and her dad off due to his new family, which also include twin brats.
Joce fails to fit in with her new step-family, but finds her elderly neighbor Miss Edi Harcourt as an angel watching over her. When Miss Edi dies, Joce inherits her estate including an ancestral house in Edilean, Virginia. However, it is the 1941 letter that she finds that intrigues Joce. Though a bit hurt that her "grandma" Miss Edi hid her past, Joce arrives in town to investigate what happened to her beloved guardian angel during WWII. There she meets two hunks who are interested in her.
LAVENDER MORNING is a fabulous family drama filled with twists especially in involving Joce. The story line effortlessly rotates between WWII and modern times. Although too much coincidence occurs that move the inquiry too easily forward, fans will enjoy the optimistic contemporary romantic trip to Edilean and the bittersweet tragic events of the 1940s.
Review by The Best Reviews
Crazy Heart (Paperback, Movie-Tie-In)
Thomas Cobb
RM 54.90
RM 43.90 (20%)
After a career that has spanned decades and five Academy Award nominations Jeff Bridges has finally got his hands on a Best Actor Oscar for his central performance as Bad Blake in Crazy Heart.
Jeff Bridges stars in this drama based on Thomas Cobb's first novel about an alcoholic country singer.
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times.
The musician's career is going downhill as he watches his protege's star ascend, but his encounters with a Jean, a journalist that uncovers the man behind the musician, might just keep him from hitting rock bottom.
Jeff Bridges turns in a exceptional performance as Bad Blake, one the greatest central performances of the year, and it thoroughly deserving of the Oscar.
It's Bridges that really elevates the movie to more than it possibly would have been without him as he delivers a heartbreaking performance of a man who is clinging onto the success of the past.
Bad struggles with alcohol as he plays a string of low key gigs while his protege Tommy Steele is selling out arena.
Review by Female First.
The Secret Scripture (Paperback)
Sebastian Barry
RM 37.50
RM 30.00 (20%)
The Secret Scripture finds Roseanne McNulty nearing her 100th birthday and living in the mental hospital where she's been most of her adult life. She's secretly written her life's story surrounding her past in County Cligo, Ireland, and she shares it with Dr. Grene, who is preparing her for the hospital's closure. As Dr. Grene digs deeper into Roseanne's past, her worship of her father, and the reasons she was sent to the hospital, he discovers inconsistencies in her story. The local pastor in Cligo, Father Gaunt, has a different version of what really happened to Roseanne McNulty, but perhaps he has his own reasons for the differences. The Secret Scripture has received positive reviews with The Telegraph saying, "In Roseanne McNulty - sly, confused, defiant, passionate - Sebastian Barry has created one of the most memorable narrators in recent fiction."
Review by Review of Books.
Breaking The Rules (Paperback)
Barbara Taylor Bradford
RM 32.90
RM 26.30 (20%)
She is a top supermodel, one of the world's most beautiful women. Men love her. Women adore her. So why is someone trying to kill her? Barbara Taylor Bradford's latest blockbuster is the gripping story of courage and revenge, love and passion, treachery and triumph. Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a young woman flees to New York in search of a new life. Adopting the initial M as her name, and reinventing herself, she embarks on a journey that will lead her to the catwalks of Paris, where she becomes the muse and star model to France's iconic designer Jean-Louis Tremont. When M meets the charming and handsome actor Larry Vaughan in New York, they fall instantly in love and marry. Soon, they become the most desired couple on the International scene, appearing on the cover of celebrity magazines, adored by millions. With a successful career and a happy marriage, M believes she has truly put the demons of her past behind her. But M's fortunes are about to take another dramatic twist. A series of bizarre events turn out not to be accidents at all, but assaults on M and her family. The dark figure from M's past, a psychopath with deadly intent, has made a vow: to shatter M's world forever. But M also makes a vow: she will do everything to keep them all safe. When those you love are threatened and at risk, there's nothing you won't do to protect them... you'll even resort to breaking the rules! Moving from New York to the chic fashion capitals of London and Paris, to the exotic locations of Istanbul and Hong Kong, this new tale from a renowned storyteller is a genuine page-turner.
Review by BarbaraTaylorBradford.com
Say You're One of Them (Paperback, Oprah's Book Club)
Uwem Akpan
RM 59.90
RM 47.90 (20%)
Awe is the only appropriate response to Uwem Akpan's stunning debut, Say You're One of Them, a collection of five stories so ravishing and sad that I regret ever wasting superlatives on fiction that was merely very good.
The setting is Africa; the protagonists, children — smart, innocent, greedy, furious, witty — who are caught in the tragedies that have lately befallen the continent, from AIDS to genocide to the comparatively banal business of grinding poverty. Akpan, a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest, writes with precision and sympathy about people of different faiths and nations. His first tale, ''An Ex-mas Feast,'' delivers a gut punch from which the dazed reader never quite recovers. Eight-year-old narrator Jigana dreams of going to school while living on the streets of Nairobi with his family, including a shiftless, intermittently tender mother who sends him out begging and accepts handouts from her tough-minded daughter, a 12-year-old prostitute.
As the story begins, Jigana's family is intact, if barely, crammed inside their makeshift shanty, hoping for a lavish holiday meal. By the end, even this provisional community dissolves, a portrait in microcosm of the way a whole culture collapses. Hand-wringing journalists have described the misery of Africa's urban poor, but Akpan also captures the humor and fleeting grace that make the degradation infinitely more painful to read about. His youthful protagonists are not the waifs of UNICEF ads or the noble victims of guilt-ridden postcolonial lit. Unlike the unshakably high-minded Valentino Achak Deng of Dave Eggers' earnest quasi-real novel about Sudanese war orphans, What Is the What, Akpan's characters are ordinary, flawed, sometimes funny kids who happen to be caught in a nightmare.
You'll find no relief in the second tale, the masterful ''Fattening for Gabon,'' in which a brother and sister wait for their uncle to sell them into slavery. In one of the most disturbing scenes in recent fiction, he strips off his pants and tries to coach his young charges about sex — a skill they will presumably need in their new life. The hallucinatory ''My Parents' Bedroom'' dramatizes the ordeal of Monique, a pretty, pampered 9-year-old girl, as her home is destroyed over two bloody nights during Rwanda's civil war in the 1990s. ''When they ask you,'' her mother tells her, ''say you're one of them, OK?'' ''Who?'' asks Monique. ''Anybody,'' answers her mother. The book should be depressing, but the blazing humanity of the characters and the brilliance of Akpan's artistry make this one of the year's most exhilarating reads.
Review by EW.
Shanghai Girls: A Novel (Hard Cover)
Lisa See
RM 69.90
RM 55.90 (20%)
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, full of great wealth and glamour, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives, thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business. Though both wave off authority and traditions, they couldn’t be more different. Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and living the carefree life ... until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides.
As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of south China, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the foreign shores of America. In Los Angeles, they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with their stranger husbands, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life, even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules.
At its heart, Shanghai Girls is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends, who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection. But like sisters everywhere, they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. They love each other but they also know exactly where to drive the knife to hurt the other sister the most. Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, impossible choices and one devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel by Lisa See hold fast to who they are.
Review by LisaSee.com
The Last Song (Paperback, Movie-Tie-In)
Nicholas Sparks
RM 34.90
RM 27.90 (20%)
In this wonderful story, seventeen-year-old Veronica (better known by her nickname Ronnie) Miller goes off to spend the summer with her dad in a small North Carolina beach town. She is reluctant for several reasons. Chiefly, it's because she has become estranged from her father over the past five years, ever since her parents underwent the proverbial messy divorce.
Ronnie has also been the typical big city girl. She's used to the high-fashions, private school, and nightlife of New York City, in meccas like Greenwich Village, SoHo, and the Upper West Side. Dropping her in a sleepy southern town seems apt punishment for Ronnie's recent episodes of angry rebellion. These included a run-in with the law for shoplifting, newly dyed jet-black hair with a screaming purple streak, and sporting Goth style fashions.
Review by romancefiction.suite101.
The Lovely Bone (Paperback, Movie-Tie-In)
Alice Sebold
RM 32.90
RM 26.30 (20%)
The Lovely Bones is Alice Sebold's debut novel, a remarkable story about love and family and letting go. Susie Salmon is 14 when she is raped and murdered by a neighbor, a serial killer of women who moves from town to town after each of his crimes. Susie's death sends her family into a tailspin as they each try to cope with the tragedy in their own way. Susie narrates the story from heaven, watching her friends, family, and the murderer move on with their lives. Alice Sebold does a wonderful job catching the rhythms and interactions of a family and community, and is surprising at times with the strength of her prose in a story about loss and finding the love that was never gone.The Lovely Bones is highly recommended.
Review by Review of Books.
The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback, Movie-Tie-In)
Audrey Niffenegger
RM 32.90
RM 26.30 (20%)
This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life. This leads to some wonderful paradoxes. From his point of view, he first met his wife, Clare, when he was 28 and she was 20. She ran up to him exclaiming that she'd known him all her life. He, however, had never seen her before. But when he reaches his 40s, already married to Clare, he suddenly finds himself time travelling to Clare's childhood and meeting her as a 6-year-old. The book alternates between Henry and Clare's points of view, and so does the narration. Reed ably expresses the longing of the one always left behind, the frustrations of their unusual lifestyle, and above all, her overriding love for Henry. Likewise, Burns evokes the fear of a man who never knows where or when he'll turn up, and his gratitude at having Clare, whose love is his anchor. The expressive, evocative performances of both actors convey the protagonists' intense relationship, their personal quirks and their reminiscences, making this a fascinating book.
Review by Squidoo.
Ok, that's all for now. Make sure you get your mum her favorite book. Happy Mother's Day folks!
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