2012年3月5日星期一



Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson

Price: RM 99.90

 Code: N006
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. 

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. 

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. 

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.



Life Without Limits







  • 1Q84
    Author: Haruki Murakami

    Price: RM91.50

    Code: N000

    A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. 
    A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.



The Sealed Letter

Author: Emma Donoghue

Price: £16.99

Code:F002

Closely based on the details of a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, The Sealed Letter is a riveting historical drama, strangely relevant to contemporary controversies over women and marriage. 
Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer of the British women's movement. Distracted from her beloved cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen's failing marriage to the stodgy Admiral Harry Codrington. What begins as an effort to help a friend explodes into a courtroom drama muckier than any Hollywood tabloid could invent; with stained dresses, accusations of adultery, counterlcaims of rape, and a mysterious letter that could destroy many lives. 
Brought to life by Emma Donoghue's vivid characterization and matchless eye for detail, The Sealed Letter is a provocative, mesmerizing story about men, women, and the birth of modern times.

11.22.63

Author: Stephen King

Price: RM89.90

Code: F003

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN a young teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, gets the chance to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from shooting JFK in November 1963 is the premise of the brilliant new novel by STEPHEN KING: 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot—unless . . . 
King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher, on a fascinating journey back to the world of 1958—from a world in 2011 of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

那些年我们一起追的女孩


Author: 九把刀


Price: RM22


Code: A006


《那些年我们一起追的女孩》讲述了:青春像一场大雨。即使感冒了,还盼望回头再淋一次。
作为一部青春纯爱小说,《那些年,我们一起追的女孩》让每个人都记起了自己十七岁的暗恋。
小说主人公柯景腾就是九把刀的原名。当时的他是一个成绩暴烂又调皮捣蛋的男生,老师将他交给班里最优秀的女生沈佳仪来管理。只要他不认真学习,沈佳仪就会用圆珠笔戳他的衣服。沈佳仪对男生说得最多的词就是“幼稚”。
在班里,几乎所有男生都在暗暗地喜欢着沈佳仪。但柯景胜的喜欢方式与众不同。他通过疯狂地提高学习成绩来接近沈佳仪,却在长达8年的时间里不敢向她表白。与此同时,沈佳仪总是絮絮叨叨地向柯景腾说着自己身边的大小事情。他们的心,早就有着一种微妙的默契。
八年的暗恋结果如何早就不重要。重要的是青葱岁月里那种单纯的喜欢,还有被喜欢刺激着的成长。



妈,亲一下 

Author: 
九把刀


Price: RM13.90


Code: A004

這是一本九把刀陪伴住院母親的病床陪伴文學部落格日誌,同時也紀錄了九把刀2004年至2005年於文壇迅速竄紅的心路歷程。2004年至2005年可以說是九把刀豐收的一年,全職寫作的他締造自己創作生涯一個又一個的驚嘆號:拿下可米瑞智百萬電視小說首獎、成為排行榜暢銷作家、小說陸續賣掉簡體及電視、電影版權、接踵而至的演講邀約、持續2005年每月出版至少一本的驚人紀錄…… 


然而在風光的背後,九把刀母卻於此時發現自己得了急性脊髓性白血病,母親的病情打亂了九把刀全家人的生活步調,從一家三兄弟輪班的醫院照料時間,九把刀重新回顧檢視與媽媽從小到大的點滴回憶,溫馨感人的照料過程,穿插九把刀的創作大事紀完整呈現,讀者不但可以從此書親身體會親情的可貴,也能分享九把刀創作成就的大事紀全紀錄。 

梦想青年旅舍 The Dream Hostel


Author: 邓秀

Price: RM20

Code: Y029


二十四岁的童真事业有成,是阳光集团的企划部执行经理。一天,董事长将梦想青年旅舍的改造计划交给童真,还告诉她说,如果做得好就可以升职。童真不情不愿地接下这个重担,来到坐落在奇迹镇的梦想青年旅舍。

在有稻田有山林的奇迹镇,童真找到了已关闭的梦想青年旅舍。旅舍的服务柜台处有张给未来的自己的硬纸板,硬纸板上的口袋里插着许多明信片,写着许多人的梦想。童真看了几张后,遇见了一位老爷爷,然后就发生了一连串像梦一样的事。

究竟写了明信片的人们最后有没有实现自己的梦想呢?他们又是以什么方法实现梦想的呢?讓我們和童真一起走入这个世界,面对自己的梦想。

Tong Zhen was an executive manager in the planning department of Sunshine group when she was only 24. One day, she reluctantly accepted a heavy responsibility from the chairman for the makeover of Dream Hostel. The chairman even promised her a promotion if she could carry the project off successfully.

To get the job done, Tong Zhen went to Miracle Town. She found the abandoned Youth Dream Hostel in the midst of paddy fields and forest. At the service counter was a cardboard entitled "For My Future Self". The pockets on the board were filled with postcards with dreams written by many people.
After going through a few of the postcards, Tong Zhen met an old man who brought her into a series of dreamliked happenings. Would the writers of those postcards ever achieve their dreams? If they would, how did they make them come through? Let us walk into this world together with Tong Zhen and face our own dreams !

再看一眼 Look Again


Author: 许友彬、许书

Price: RM20

Code: Y030

你曾否想过,如果你的灵魂离开了身体,只能在世上逗留四十九天,你最想做的是什么?

一只大老鼠闯进了梁有生的家。梁有生奉太太之命,把捕捉到的老鼠带到油棕园放生。他一路上和女儿谈天说地,岂料老鼠从捕鼠笼里逃出来,在车里乱窜乱跳。梁有生的车子撞向油棕树,他的头部受到重创,灵魂离开了身体!

这时,一个珍珠白的灵魂从天上的光柱降落在梁有生面前,告诉梁有生四十九天后灵魂就得回去” ,在这四十九天里,梁有生一分钟也不能回到自己的身体。梁有生放心不下他的太太和女儿,想尽办法接近她们,只为了再看一眼……

Have you ever thought of what you would like to do most if you have only forty-nine days left on earth, after your soul leaves your body?

At the order of his wife, Leong Yu Seng set out to release at an oil palm estate a rat caught in his house. He was chatting happily with his daughter beside him in the car when the rat got out from the cage and started to dart around the car. The commotion created resulted in the car crashing against an oil palm tree. Yu Seng was seriously injured on the head and his soul left his body.

At that moment, a bright light descended from above and a pearl white soul appeared in front of Yu Seng. He was told that after 49 days, the soul would have to ‘return’. Within these 49 days, he could not get back into his body even for a minute. He was greatly distressed, still very attached to his wife and daughter. He began to construe many ways to approach them, just so that he could catch another glance…


《十月》 October

Author: 
许友彬,陈国胜

Price: RM 15.00

Code: C001

十月的妈妈离世后,留下了无数个习题给他。他只要完成习题便可换取妈妈留给他的礼物。于是,他展开了一场寻宝游戏!游戏的过程中,他发现了一个天大的秘密!为了找出真相,他必须坚持完成所有习题。真相揭晓之时,便是十月做出最终决定的关键时刻…… 


Shi Yue’s mum left him several ‘problems’ to solve when she died. He could exchange the solved ‘problems’ for ‘presents’ which his mum left for him too. So, he started a game of ‘treasure hunt’. In the process, he found out a big secret. In order to find the truth, he had to finish solving all the ‘problems’. When the truth breaks, that is the critical time when Shi Yue has to make a decision……


佳佳的秘密
Jia Jia's Secret


Author: 
赖宇欣

Price: RM17.50

Code: I004

佳佳是个刚升初中一的独中生,也是学校里的实习巡察员。她特别讨厌星期六,因为这天她不需要去站岗维持秩序。这就代表她必须留在班上,留在班上她就必须跟同学们聊天。她最担心的是,聊天时同学们会问起她家庭成员的事。她可以谈及她的爸爸妈妈、大姐和哥哥,唯独二姐的事,她不想说…… 

Jia Jia is a student in a private school who has just moved up to Form 1. She is also a probation prefect. She especially dislikes Saturdays, because on those days, she needs not be on duty to help maintain discipline in the school. That also means that she has to remain in class, forcing her to mingle with her classmates. Her main concern is the queries on her family members during the idle chatting. She could talk about her dad and mum, eldest sister and elder brother, but not about her second sister, she does not feel like talking about her……

Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Price: RM 8.50
Code: C000
Alice. The Mad Hatter. The White Rabbit. The Cheshire Cat. The Queen of Hearts. Everyone knows the characters who inhabit Lewis Carroll’s remarkable Wonderland— where she meets a variety of wonderful creatures, including Tweedledee & Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, & the hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Throughout her fantastic journeys, Alice retains her reason, humor, & sense of justice.