la petit treasures: Non-Fiction

Welcome book-savvy shoppers!

It's a fact! Books are expensive in Malaysia. Bestselling items are never sold below RM40. You'd think that only the imported ones would carry a hefty tag, but no. Books penned by local authors can also burn a hole in your wallet. Even children books can be ridiculously priced.

Which explains why I, and possibly thousands of Malaysians out there, would go on a book bargain-hunting. I get all excited every time I enter a used bookstore the same when I go to Kinokuniya. I love books and I certainly love cheap books. And I know the lot of you who had entered this humble abode of a blog of mine are on the same hunting ground of finding cheap reading materials for yourself and your child.

So, welcome folks. I have listed down some of the pre-loved books that I'm willing to part with. Most of the books are in excellent condition. I dare say, if I hadn't scrape the price stickers off, it could be passed off as brand new.

Most of the children books, however, are brand new. These are clearance stocks from my hey-day stint as children reading/ learning and teaching aid materials trader.

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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson

Ref #: PLB-0048-NFB

RM28 (np: RM34.90)
One woman's survival underSaddam Hussein regime

NY Times Bestselling Author of Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

The Middle Sea, History of the Mediterranean

by John Julius Norwich

Ref #: PLB-0049-NFB

RM40 (np: RM56.50)

The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth of growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times a s a cradle and a grave, a bond and a barrier, a blessing and a battlefield.

The Tyrants

2500 years of absolute power and corruption by Clive Foss

Ref #: PLB-0050-NFB

RM50 (np: RM61.50)

Beginning with the rise of the original tyrants during Greek and Roman times, and concluding with the modern-day fall of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, Professor Clive Foss, renowned expert on dictatorships, describes the lives of 50 of the most brutal despots ever known. In these tales of corruption and greed, madness and vanity, sadism and terror, he provides a shocking yet fascinating history of man's inhumanity to man

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