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Fragile
Things
Neil Gaiman
Short Fictions & Wonders
Our Price: S$15.10
(incl. GST)
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780755334155
Publisher: Headline Review |
"Praise
for the weird and wonderful world of Neil Gaiman
Extraordinary, complicated, hilarious, melancholy
and terrifying - Independent
Immensely entertaining... combines the anarchy of
Douglas Adams with a Wodehousian generosity of
spirit - Susanna Clarke
Bizarre, bonkers... rather brilliant - Ian Hislop
There are stories
within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night,
shouted above the roar of the day, and played out
between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends.
But all, all are fragile things made of just 26
letters arranged and rearranged to form tales and
imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your
imagination and move you to the very depths of your
soul."

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Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
A New York Times Bestseller
Our Price: S$20.80 (incl. GST)
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143038252
Publisher: Penguin Books |
"One Man's
Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Thrilling... proof
that one ordinary person, with the right combination
of character and determination, really can change
the world - Tom Brokaw
Here (in Pakistan
and Afghanistan), we drink three cups of tea to do
business; the first you are a stranger, the second
you become a friend, and the third, you join our
family, and for our family we are prepared to do
anything--even die. - Haji Ali, Korphe Village
Chief, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life
Indiana Jones and his remarkable humanitarian
campaign in the Taliban's backyard
In 1993, a
mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an
impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram
mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2.
Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to
return and build a school. Three Cups of
Tea is the story of that promise and its
extraordinary outcome. Over the next
decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five
schools--especially for girls--in the forbidding
terrain that gave birth to the Taliban.
His story is at once a riveting adventure and a
testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit."

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