Books for Job Seeker

Are you out of job? Or looking for a career switch?
Well, do not despair as the economic downturn is spread worldwide. It is important to keep ourselves in high spirit at this gloomy period.
If you have lost your job recently, do not be disheartened. You should constantly upgrade yourself so as to find a better career in your next employment. Being a recruitment personnel myself, I see a growing trend of hiring of more contract/temp staff. I would encourage all to be open to opportunities. Even if it is just a temporary assignment, take it up! You never know what will lies ahead for you in the company. If performance is good and they are have additional headcount, you will have a higher chance of conversion.
What is important to gain a foothold in a company? You have to impress during the interview. Here are some books which can be helpful in your comin interviews.

1. Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions by Martin John Yate
2. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative by William Poundstone

The books are available for rental at a rate of $6. Email me at prettyfly07@hotmail.com to enquire for more.

Everyone, let's just stay motivated!!!

Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.

Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.

Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know -- not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil -- and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of"outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

You pay: $22
You get back: $16

Rent-A-Lit goes to Town

Yes, Singaporeaderz will be at CozyCot bazzaar on 17th Jan 2009.

You may send in the request for the book with the book titles and collect from the bazzaar on 17th Jan 09. Each book will be rented out at $4! Send in your requests by 16th Jan 2009 5pm. Book is subjected to availability and on a first-come-first-served basis.

Rent-A-Lit goes to Town
Date: 17 January 2009
Time: 12 - 6pm
Address: 110 Middle Road #09-00 Chiat Hong Building, Singapore 188968



p/s: do visit the bazzaar as there will be lotsa of attractive bargains up for grab!

Singaporeaderz Contest

Simply answer the question correctly and you will get to rent the book for FREE!

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Contest will be run from now til 31st January 2009.

NY Promotion!

Time flies.. 1 year has just flashed by, and a brand new year is about to begin! Guess all of us are very excited about this coming new year. The outlook may be bleak, but we still can make the best out of it all! I hope all of you are as positive as I am!

In celebration of the coming 2009, we are holding a special promotion.

The first 10 readers will get to rent the book of their choice for half price!!
(that's why there is this saying that early bird catches the worm!)

And for the not-so-early folks, rent a book in January and get your 2nd book at half price too (valid til March 2009)!

Hurry up and get your eyes busy!

Yakuzu Moon by Tendo, Shoko (Soft cover)

A shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman's experience of growing up in Japan's yakuza society. Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years in luxury. But labelled "the yakuza kid", she is the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father's violent rages at home. The family falls into debt and Tendo falls in with the wrong crowd. By the age of fifteen she is a gang member, by the age of eighteen a drug addict, and her young adulthood is marked by a series of abusive and violent relationships with men. After the death of her parents and her own attempt at suicide, Tendo turns her life around. A pivotal moment is the decision to get tattooed: an act of empowerment that helps her take control of her life. This is the universally appealing story of a young woman's successful struggle to escape from a life of ostracism and abuse, and a rare glimpse into Japan's closed yakuza world from an insider's viewpoint. Translated by Louise Heal.

You pay: $15
You get back: $9
Status: Available

More Jodi Picoult books!

2 more titles to the collection!

1. The Pact
2. Second Glance

You pay $12
You get $6

Dilbert

1. Dilbert - The principles
2. Ways of the Weasel
3. Dilbert and the Future

You pay: $15
You get back: $9
(price based on per book)

New titles added!

Why Men Marry Bitches
You pay $23
You get back $17

The Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

You pay $14
You get back $8

Email me to reserve the book TODAY!

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella

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You pay: $15
You get back: $9

Be my Baby by Neil Humphrey

When two lines appear on the pregnancy test kit, Humphreys’ world is turned upside down. He is excited but clueless and urgently needs some directions. After all, his biggest responsibility to this point had been a pet hamster and he lost that twice.

From the moment his doctor tells him to book an obstetrician’s appointment, he knows he is out of his depth — he doesn’t know what an obstetrician is.

Humphreys deals with parents who mock his sex drive, midwives who question his usefulness, friends who share only horrific birth stories, strangers who rub his wife’s belly and folks who seem to know everything there is to know about pregnancy (but often don’t have kids of their own). And there’s that troubling dream about her giving birth to a plastic toy lizard made in China.

How will he deal with his parental insecurities?

What’s the secret to being a decent dad?

Will he drop his baby at the birth?

Both funny and poignant, Be My Baby is a frank account of Humphreys’ quest to be a good father.

Every parent will identify with his journey and perhaps begin to realise what they themselves put their mummy and daddy through, even in the womb.

You pay: $15
You get back: $9

Meg Cabot is here!

Available for rental titles from Meg Cabot
1. Size 12 is not fat
2. Size 14 is not fat either
3. Queen of Bable


You pay $14
You get back $8

Grab these interesting chick lit fast!!

The Empress Series by Anchee Min

Empress Orchid & The Last Empress is now available!

Rent the 2 books together at a special price of $10!

About Empress Orchid
A richly-detailed novel based on Tzu Hsi, the last empress of China. Orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the Emperor. The thousands of concubines will go to any lengths to bear the Emperor a son and become his Empress. Determined not to be a victim of the jealousies and foul play, Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch. Little does she know that China will collapse around her and she will be its last Empress.

About The Last Empress
At the end of the 19th century, China is rocked by humiliating foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid. Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the spotlight of the world stage, Orchid makes a dramatic metamorphosis from a strong-willed young woman to a wise political leader, who must not only face the perilous condition of her fading empire but also a series of devastating personal losses. Yearning to step aside yet growing constantly into her role, only she can hold the nation's rival factions together. In this sequel to the bestselling novel Empress Orchid, Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a very human leader who assumes power reluctantly, and who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empire.

You pay $30
You get back $20

He's just not that into you by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

The No Excuses to Understanding Guys

He's Just Not That Into You is not a guide to dating. Aimed at women of a certain class and lifestyle and filling a slim 165 pages, the book serves merely as a calling card for its authors, five-years-out-of-the-dating-pool Sex and the City consultant Greg Behrendt and 41-years-old-and-single SatC executive story editor Liz Tuccillo. Presumably their participation in the creation of that callow and over-praised HBO television series is what qualifies Greg and Liz (the book always refers to its authors by their first names) to offer relationship guidelines: the book is titled after an episode of the show, and the design of the book is engineered to reinforce that connection.


The first eleven out of sixteen chapters have titles that begin with the phrase "He's Just Not That Into You If" and end with putative sins such as "He's Not Calling You," "He's Not Having Sex With You," "He's Having Sex With Someone Else," and "He Doesn't Want to Marry You." These chapter titles, and the relationship failures they indicate, tend to represent either the blindingly obvious or an intensification of traditional dating and relationship rules, often both at the same time. The book is addressed to urbane, heterosexual women looking for marriage. It's not exactly an under-served market, but it is only slightly narrower than the Sex and the City demographic.


Each of these chapter contains a brief description of the problem from Greg; two or three advice-column style questions from women, which Greg answers; a paragraph or two under the heading "It's so simple," which reinforces the chapter title; "Here's Why This One Is Hard," wherein Liz empathizes with reluctant readers and whines ad nauseum about how difficult her romantic life is; "This is What It Should Look Like," which discusses how an ideal situation would appear by contrast; and "Greg, I Get It," credited to one woman or another who finds the advice liberating. Three items end each chapter: "If You Don't Believe Greg," which always has '20 out of 20' or '100% of polled men' giving advice that stands by the chapter's rule; a redundant "What You Should Have Learned in This Chapter" summary; and a trivial but occasionally giggle-worthy "Workbook" section.

You pay: S$12
You get back: S$6
Status: Available