A DIFFERENT KIND OF DAUGHTER: THE GIRL WHO HID FROM THE TALIBAN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Author：Maria Toorpakai with Katharine Holstein
Publisher：Viking
Call Number：796.000 / T3
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Maria Toorpakai grew up in Pakistan, where the Taliban controlled many parts of life and forbade girls from playing sports. From a young age, Maria loved being active and wanted to play freely. To make her dream possible, she cut her hair, dressed like a boy, and joined squash games in secret. She became a strong athlete, but when the Taliban found out she was a girl, she received threats and was forced to hide. Still, Maria never gave up her passion for squash. This inspiring memoir tells the story of her bravery, hope, and fight for freedom.
O’S LITTLE GUIDE TO STARTING OVER
Author：The Oprah Magazine
Publisher：Macmillan
Call Number：158.100 / O2
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
O’s Little Guide to Starting Over is a small book of stories and advice from The Oprah Magazine. It is made for people who need a fresh start after big life changes like loss, breakups, or new challenges. The writers, including Martha Beck, Kelly Corrigan, and Junot Díaz, share easy to follow lessons about letting go of the past, being brave, and finding new chances in life.
The book shows that starting over is not something to fear but a chance to grow and be happier. It gives hope, strength, and gentle support to anyone ready for a new beginning.
11 EXPLORATIONS INTO LIFE ON EARTH: CHRISTMAS LECTURES FROM THE ROYAL INSTITUTION
Author：Helen Scales
Publisher：Michael O’mara Books Ltd
Call Number：574.000 / S4
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
11 Explorations into Life on Earth: Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution by Helen Scales is a book about the amazing variety of life on our planet. It explains how life first began, how animals and plants change over time, and the clever ways they survive. From tiny microbes to huge creatures, the book shows how all living things are connected. It is based on the famous Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution, written in a way that is clear and exciting.
The book celebrates the beauty of nature and reminds us why protecting life on Earth is important.
TWEETING THE UNIVERSE: TINY EXPLANATIONS OF VERY BIG IDEAS
Author：Marcus Chown, Govert Schilling
Publisher：FABER AND FABER
Call Number：523.100 / C2
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas by Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling is a fun science book written in short, tweet-sized pieces. It explains very big and complex topics, such as the Big Bang, black holes, quantum physics, and the mysteries of the universe, in simple and clear words. Each idea is short, easy to read, and sometimes funny, making science less scary and more enjoyable.
The book is perfect for anyone who is curious about space and life but does not want heavy details. It shows that learning about the universe can be simple and exciting.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: TAKING YOUR BEST STEP WHEN LIFE IS UNCERTAIN
Author：Jeff Henderson
Publisher：Zondervan Books
Call Number：158.100 / H3
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
What to Do Next: Taking Your Best Step When Life Is Uncertain by Jeff Henderson is a guide for people who feel lost or unsure about their future. Henderson explains that it is normal to face times of doubt, but these moments can help us grow. He shares stories and easy advice to show how small, wise steps can lead to big progress.
The book encourages readers to be brave, build confidence, and keep moving even when the path is not clear. It gives hope and simple guidance for making good choices in work, relationships, and everyday life.
GOLD: GREED, INNOVATION, DARING AND WEALTH
Author： Jill Blee
Publisher： Exisle
Call Number：338.200 / B1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed Melbourne and Sydney from colonial outposts into two of the world’s most vibrant cities, and triggered the push for a more democratic form of government. Today, Australia continues to be one of the premier gold-producing countries in the world. GOLD reveals in fascinating detail how this precious metal has helped to shape Australia.
HUDDLE: HOW WOMEN UNLOCK THEIR COLLECTIVE POWER
Author：Brooke Baldwin
Publisher：Harper Collins
Call Number：305.400 / B1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Brooke Baldwin found that women of all ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds were huddling for a variety of reasons whether on the front lines of protests, in C-suite corner offices, or in quiet church basements. By unpacking the multitude of ways women are showing up for one another, Baldwin reveals the collective power women unlock when they huddle.
Reflecting on her own history growing up in the South and climbing the ladder in an often lonely and competitive profession, Baldwin explores all-girl learning environments as well as women who band together in male-dominated industries. Huddle also examines groups of women making seismic change together, including the cofounders of Black Lives Matter, Indigenous women saving the planet, mothers fighting to reform gun laws, athletes agitating for equal pay, and teachers rallying to improve their working conditions.
Baldwin’s story is one of learning to become more deliberate about leaning on female friends and colleague. Huddle issues an inspiring challenge to readers to do the same.
BERLIN: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE CITY AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Author：Sinclair Mckay
Publisher：St. Martin’s Press
Call Number：943.100 / M1
Location：Area C
Throughout The Twentieth Century, Berlin stood at the center of a convulsing world. Sinclair McKay begins his chronicle of the city in 1919, as Berlin emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary byword for modernity – in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He then traces the city’s history through the rise of Hitler and the battle for Berlin that ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, and beyond all the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony, from the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands. McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins – and then in the years afterward led to Berlin being rent in two by competing superpowers, with the vast, grim wall built in 1961 becoming part of the landscape of the world.
Amid the destruction a collective instinct was also at work – a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying – and, for some, initially exhilarating – transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex.
THE ZOO: THE WILD AND WONDERFUL TALE OF THE FOUNDING OF LONDON ZOO
Author：Isobel Charman
Publisher：Viking
Call Number：591.000 / C1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
The creation of London Zoo – the first ‘zoo’ in history – is a story of jaw-dropping audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival keepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing animals from all around the world – and sending them to what was dubbed ‘the ark by the mocking press.
Telling this almost unbelievable true story, Isobel Charman depicts a highly colourful but often forgotten moment in cultural history, through the eyes of extraordinary characters both famous and unfamiliar – from Stamford Raffles, Lord Derby and a young Charles Darwin, to the medical attendant, the head keeper and the showman across town.
And then there are the animals! Based on unprecedented research, Charman describes Tommy the chimpanzee who lived, homesick, in his keeper’s house; the giraffes that walked through the city and were scared by cows; and Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen.
Against a background of domestic reform and industrialization, this is the thoroughly refreshing story of the weird and wonderful oasis at the heart of a global empire. It’s a new history of a new world.
WAYS OF BEING: ANIMALS, PLANTS, MACHINES: THE SEARCH FOR A PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE
Author：James Bridle
Publisher：Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Call Number：153.900 / B1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings – beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in “artificial” intelligence. But rather than a friend or companion, Al increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us.
At the same time, we’re only just becoming aware of the other intelligences that have been with us all along, even if we’ve failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others – the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us – are slowly revealing their complexity, agency, and knowledge, just as the technologies we’ve built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction and ours. What can we learn from them, and how can we change ourselves, our technologies, our societies, and our politics to live better and more equitably with one another and the nonhuman world?
The artist and maverick thinker James Bridle draws on biology and physics, computation, literature, art, and philosophy to answer these unsettling questions. Starling and bold, Ways of Being explores the fascinating, strange, and multitudinous forms of knowing, doing, and being that make up the world, and that are essential for our survival.
SPIRIT’S KEY
Author：Edith Cohn
Publisher：Farrar Straus Giroux
Call Number：813.600 / C33
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
By now, twelve-year-old Spirit Holden should have inherited the family gift: the ability to see the future. But when she holds a house key in her hand like her dad does to read its owner’s destiny, she can’t see anything. Maybe it’s because she can’t get past the loss of her dog, Sky, who died mysteriously. Sky was Spirit’s loyal companion, one of the wild dogs that the local islanders believe possess dangerous spirits. As more dogs start dying and people become sick, too, almost everyone is convinced that the dogs are to blame for this strange illness―except for Spirit. Then Sky’s ghost appears, and Spirit is shaken. But his help may be the key to unlocking her new power and finding the true cause of the island’s sickness before it is too late.
THE LAST SECRET OF THE DEVERILLS
Author：Santa Montefiore
Publisher：Simon & Schuster
Call Number：823.920 / M22
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
No one knew the truth behind Bridie’s triumphant return. The rest of the family saw only what she had acquired: a dashing husband who was a count, their young son Leopoldo, the mighty Castle Deverill, her fine clothes and jewellery, her shiny motor car and the chauffeur who drove it in his gloves and hat. No one knew how much she had lost. And she could never tell.
WHAT IS THE PRESENT?
Author：Michael North
Publisher：Princeton University Press
Call Number：115.000 / N1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
The problem the present – what it is and what it means – is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and now – but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and now actually is? What Is the Present? takes a provocative new look at this moment in time that remains a mystery even though it is always with us.
Michael North tackles puzzles that have preoccupied philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, history, and aesthetic theory and examines the complex role of the present in painting, fiction, and film. He engages with a range of thinkers, from Aristotle and Augustine to William James and Henri Bergson. He draws illuminating examples from artists such as Fra Angelico and Richard McGuire, filmmakers like D. W. Griffith and Christopher Nolan, and novelists such as Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather. North offers a critical analysis of previous models of the present, from the experiential present to the historical period we call the contemporary. He argues that the present is not a cosmological or experiential fact but a metaphor, a figurative relationship with the whole of time.
THE MAN WHO BUILT A CASTLE
Author：Mike Gibby
Publisher：Entrepot
Call Number：959.500 / G1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Kellie’s Castle is a famous landmark and a popular destination. Search the internet and you will find all kinds of tales about the man who built it — a Scotsman named William Kellie Smith. But how much of what you will find is true, and how much is imaginary?
The Man Who Built A Castle is the result of careful research into the man behind the myth. It explores the reasons why he came to Perak in 1889, the true story of how he met his wife, Agnes, and how — together — they made their fortune. There are answers here too, for why Kellie’s Castle was never completed, and how Kellie’s Castle was rescued from the jungle that had reclaimed it.
HUNTING PRINCE DRACULA
Author：Kerri Maniscalco
Publisher：Jimmy Patterson Books
Call Number：813.600 / M30
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper’s true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe’s best schools of forensic medicine…and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend.
But her life’s dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school’s forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.
THE POWER OF DIFFERENT: THE LINK BETWEEN DISORDER AND GENIUS
Author：Gail Saltz, M.D.
Publisher：Flatiron Books
Call Number：155.200 / S1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling author Gail Saltz examines the latest scientific discoveries, profiles famous geniuses who have been diagnosed with all manner of brain “problems”―including learning disabilities, ADD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism―and tells the stories of lay individuals to demonstrate how specific deficits in certain areas of the brain are directly associated with the potential for great talent. Saltz shows how the very conditions that cause people to experience difficulty at school, in social situations, at home, or at work, are inextricably bound to creative, disciplinary, artistic, empathetic, and cognitive abilities.
In this pioneering work, readers will find engaging scientific research and stories from historical geniuses and everyday individuals who have not only made the most of their conditions, but have also flourished because of them. They are leaning into their brain differences to:
*Identify areas of interest and expertise
*Develop work- arounds
*Create the environments that best foster their talents
*Forge rewarding interpersonal relationships
Enlightening and inspiring, The Power of Different proves that the unique wiring of every brain can be a source of strength and productivity, and contributes to the richness of our world.
THE WORLD IN 2050: HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE
Author：Hamish Mcrae
Publisher：Bloomsbury
Call Number：303.400 / M1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
In The World in 2050. Hamish McRae, one of Europe’s foremost voices on global trends in economics, takes us on an exhilarating journey into the next thirty years. Brilliantly weighing up the opportunities and dangers that we face, his dazzling analysis of the economic tectonic plates of the past and the present helps us chart a map of the future.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF IKIGAI: THE JAPANESE WAY TO FINDING YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE
Author：Ken Mogi
Publisher：Quercus
Call Number：158.100 / M9
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
In Japan, Ikigai is ‘the reason to get up in the morning’
This ancient Eastern philosophy has never been so relevant. It has the potential to change your life – and make you happier, showing you how to start small, find your flow, discover your passion and look for joy in the little things.
Through the expert guidance of Ken Mogi, this wondrous gem of a book will help you realize and discover your very own Ikigai.
MY MEDICINE POETRY & SHORT STORIES
Author：Charissa Ong TY
Publisher：Penwings
Call Number：808.810 / O1
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
Today was the day I fell in love with poetry once more.
I didn’t simply just write them. Instead, I let the words float freely downstream from my heart into the void before me. The broken letters rearranged themselves in perfect order, as if it were sheet music ready to be played by a concerto. It was beautiful. With nervous anticipation I read the notes and hummed the sad tune softly, careful not to stir the water. And in the still reflection, I see me.
My poetry.
AMONG THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS
Author：Julia Pierpont
Publisher：Oneworld
Call Number：813.600 / P17
Location：Area C
Synopsis：
An anonymous package arrives in the post: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling New York-artist Jack’s secret life. The package is addressed to his wife Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her children’s. With this vertiginous opening begins a heart-stopping debut about a family blown apart by an affair, yet still painfully tethered together.
HOW TO TALK SO KIDS CAN LEARN AT HOME AND IN SCHOOL (EDISI BAHASA MELAYU)
Penulis：Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Penerbit：PTS Publishing House
Nombor Panggilan：649.00 / F2
Tempat：Zon C
Sinopsis：
How to Talk So Kids Can Learn At Home and in School telah memberikan contoh-contoh yang konkrit berkenaan sikap dan bahasa dalam setiap teras proses pembelajaran. Buku ini telah menunjukkan bagaimana mencipta persekitaran emosi yang menjadi kanak-kanak berasa selamat untuk membuka diri mereka kepada hal-hal yang baharu dan tidak dikenali atau tidak biasa.
Buku ini juga berkongsi pelbagai kaedah bagi menggalakkan kanak-kanak untuk percaya kepada diri sendiri dan bagi menjadi diri yang mereka mahukan.
HOW TO TALK SO LITTLE KIDS WILL LISTEN (EDISI BAHASA MELAYU)
Penulis：Joanna Faber & Julie King
Penerbit：Pts Publishing House
Nombor Panggilan：649.000 / F2
Tempat：Zon C
Sinopsis：
Buku ini mengandungi alat dan petua komunikasi yang efektif untuk menghadapi cabaran dan konflik semasa menguruskan kanak-kanak berdasarkan pengalaman dan pengetahuan penulis dalam mengendalikan bengkel komunikasi How To Talk dengan ibu bapa, guru dan pakar pediatrik.
Diharapkan panduan ini memberi kekuatan kepada ibu bapa dan penjaga kanak-kanak kecil untuk berinteraksi dengan mereka, membantu mereka berkembang menjadi individu yang mandiri, bekerjasama, dan mampu berkomunikasi dengan orang lain.
POKET KIAN POKAI? POKET KENA PENUH!
Penulis：Afyan Mat Rawi, Ifp
Penerbit：Karya Bestari
Nombor Panggilan：332.000 / A5
Tempat：Area C
Sinopsis：
Krisis kesihatan, ekonomi dan politik yang berlaku serentak sejak tahun 2020 sangat memberi kesan kepada kehidupan kita terutama dari sudut pengurusan kewangan.
Jadi, diharapkan naskhah PKP: Poket Kian Pokai? Poket Kena Penuh! dapat membantu kita memastikan misi bebas hutang waktu krisis dan semasa pasca endemik tercapai.
PANDUAN PENGURUSAN STRES PEKERJAAN
Penulis：Noor Hassim Ismail,Zaharah Zainuddin,Mohd Ridzal Mohd Zainal
Penerbit：Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka
Nombor Panggilan：158.700 / N1
Tempat：Zon C
Sinopsis：
Buku ini ditulis oleh pakar kesihatan pekerjaan yang berpengalaman dalam bidang stres pekerjaan. Pakar ini telah banyak melakukan kajian stres dalam kalangan pekerja-pekerja di Malaysia.
Buku ini amat berfaedah dibaca oleh semua pekerja dari pelbagai peringkat sama ada pelajar-pelajar, para penyelidik dan orang awam yang berminat untuk meningkatkan kesihatan diri dan membantu mengekalkan kesejahteraan hidup masyarakat umum.
IBU PENAT, TAPI IBU SAYANG
Penulis：Bonda Umirah
Penerbit：IMAN
Nombor Panggilan：301.400 / B1
Tempat：Zon C
Sinopsis：
Ibu Penat, Tapi Ibu Sayang ialah sebuah buku motivasi keibubapaan yang menggambarkan realiti kehidupan seorang ibu dalam mengurus keluarga, anak-anak, dan tanggungjawab harian.
Melalui buku ini, Bonda Umirah yang merupakan seorang kaunselor berdaftar dan juga seorang ibu; mengajak kita untuk menyelami makna perjalanan menjadi seorang ibu yang membahagiakan terutama kepada diri ibu itu sendiri. Dengan perkongsian penuh empati, penulis membawa kita menyelusuri cara bagaimana kita boleh menjadi versi ibu terbaik dalam syurga keluarga.
