Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Have A Little Faith

Title : The Lost Symbol
Author: Mitch Albom


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What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds two men, two faiths, two communities that will inspire readers everywhere.

Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor -- a reformed drug dealer and convict -- who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.

In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Brida

Title: Brida
Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN: 9780007274468




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'But how will I know who my Soulmate is?'
'By taking risks,' she said to Brida.
'By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.'

This is the story of Brida, a beautiful young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. On her journey she meets a wise man who teaches her about overcoming her fears, and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world. They see in her a gift, but must let her make her own voyage of discovery.

As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggle to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to transform herself.

A moving tale of love, passion, mystery and spirituality from the master storyteller and author of The Alchemist.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Lost Symbol

Title : The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Price: RM99.00 but comes with 20% for selected bookstores.

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As the story opens, Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing objects - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the objects as an ancient invitation..one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.

When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon, a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations, all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.
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Snuff

Title: Snuff
Author: Chuck Palaniuk
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN: 9780307456236



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In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for serial fornication by having sex with 600 men on camera, where one of whom may want to kill her.

Told from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, Mr. 600, and Sheila, the talent wrangler who must keep it all under control, Snuff is a dark, wild, and lethally funny novel that brings the presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction.
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Gurus For Hire Enlightment For Sale (revised edition)

Title : Gurus For Hire Enlightment For Sale (revised edition)
Author : Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
Publisher: Kechara House

All you ever wanted to know but never dared ask about Gurus, disciples, groupies, sponsors, Dharma centres, different approaches and philosophies, who's right, who's best, why there is neither right nor best, and what it all has to do with You.

Through insightful observations, warm-hearted advice and deeply personal experiences. His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche explores what a Guru-disciple relationship is all about and what it means for comtemporary spiritual aspirants. He reveals the ups, downs, benefits and troubles of Dharma centres all around the world and shows us how it is one of the most liberating places we'll ever know.

Touching on a variety of near-taboo subjects. Rinpoche compassionately shows us the keys to finding our way in the labyrinths of today's spiritual supermarket and why the holy journey is still worth thorny step we take.
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This is a revised edition of the previous book. This book available on all Kechara outlet and major bookstores. If you feel that you want to pre-taste what the book really talk's about, you can try read the free distribution series where a small portions of the book being extract into a small booklet. I think it available in all Kechara outlet.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Devil And Miss Prym

Title: The Devil And Miss Prym
Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780007132867




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A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil?

In this stunning novel, Paulo Coelho, the author of The Alchemist, dramatizes the struggle within every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our everyday struggles. Can we dare to follow our dreams, to have the courage to be different and to master the fear that prevents us from truly living? The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.

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