MPH

Non-Fiction
1) Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going
9789814266727          (Han Fook Kwang)
2) Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything
9780747585664          (Elizabeth Gilbert)
3) Confucius Confounded: The Analects of Lee Kuan Yew
9789679695663          (Francis T. Seow)

Love is in the air at MPH Bookstores this February and be ready to impress your loved one with your charming new look with THEFACESHOP, or look great in less than minutes with author and image consultant, Sheila Wong. Plus, find out “how to” attract your ideal mate with The Law of Attraction Centre, learn delicious cupcake recipes with Lynn Hassan and celebrate Valentine’s with your children in an hour of fun filled Innertalk Motivational games.

Also, come meet some of your favourite romance novel authors such as Ramlah Rashid, Norzailina Nordin, Norhayati Berahim, Lynn Dayana, Ruhana Zaki & many others!

You can also join Natural Slimming & Rejuvenation Centre (NSR) to learn effective slimming techniques with Yoga.

Kids, can take part in Disney On Ice “Worlds of Fantasy”colouring contest, and win yourself a free ticket to catch this fun-filled adventure fit for the entire family! Or come listen to stories brought to life by Usborne’s storytellers with some fun activities thrown in.

Other authors making an appearance at MPH this month include Joey Yap, Marianna Pascal & Jeremy Chin.

Click on the event leaflet below for full details.

Ladies and gentlemen, make way, for the heavyweight champion of the world, for the new chairman of the board, the entrepreneur extraordinaire, the lord of the rhymes, the hippity hoppity, the Jiggaman himself, Jay-Z. He is “the king of hip-hop, renewed like Reeboks.” He is the all American dream. Rags to riches. An old fashioned success story, meagre in its inception, but grand in its execution.

Read more here.

Non-Fiction
1) Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going
9789814266727          (Han Fook Kwang)
2) Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything
9780747585664          (Elizabeth Gilbert)
3) 1000 Years Of Annoying The French
9780552775755          (Stephen Clarke)

The recipes are clearly explained, and Eastwood has “Trust Me Tips” for some of them. Most of the cakes in the book are quick and easy to make and pretty much every one requires eggs to be beaten with sugar to a large volume.

Eastwood records her attempts in her “Cake Diaries”. The Red Velvet Cake, for example, was tested 11 times in nine months. Again, there’s the irritating personification (“I’d better speak quietly as she’s in the oven right now and might overhear me”), but you tend to forgive her since she has obviously put in the effort to ensure the recipe works.

Read the rest of the review here.

If you find baking a daunting process, here’s a cookbook that will simplify the process and show you every step of the recipe.

The recipes in Frame by Frame Baking are beautifully illustrated, straightforward and easy to follow.

Each recipe has photographs of all the ingredients. Looking at the photograph, you will get to compare the ingredients on your own kitchen counter and make sure that you have not missed anything for the preparation of the recipe.

Read the rest of the review here.

Like its multi-cultural society, the food and cooking styles of Malaysia are influenced by its people and neighbouring regions. Malaysians who have been exposed to cuisines of different races are also readily accepting each other’s food and even replicating them at home.

This cookbook compiles the food of Malaysia with 80 step by step recipes shown in more than 350 photographs to guide you to cook a truly Malaysian meal.

Read the rest of the review here.

The Year of the Golden Rabbit starts off on a lucky foot. Spring arrives on the second day and this indicates the promise of growth. Lilian Too shares her general view of what’s to come for 2011 and her predictions of what the new year holds in store for each zodiac.

Non-Fiction
1) The Power
9781439181782          (Rhonda Byrne)
2) The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems
9780470888032          (Joe Vitale)
3) Events That Changed the World
9780857342515          (Igloo Books Ltd)
4) Guinness World Records 2011: Exploding with Thousands of New Records
9781904994572          (Guinness World Records)
5) The Secret
9781582701707          (Rhonda Byrne)

Non-Fiction

1) Have a Little Faith
9780786891344          (Mitch Albom)
2) Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude
9781935096566          (Jack Canfield;Mark Victor Hansen;Amy Newmark)
3) Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man
9780062003690          (Steve Harvey)
4) The Secret
9781582701707          (Rhonda Byrne)
5) Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
9780091816971          (Spencer Johnson)