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QUIRKY THEMES: Something Old, Something New. book reviews

New York: Hyperion, c2005
Call No.: 658.4 BOW [BIZ]
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Kingdomality highlights management principles in a refreshingly different way – based on running a kingdom once upon a time ago. Read about a king, who adopted the principles in Kingdomality and succeeded in transforming his kingdom of […]

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FRESH INK . selected new arrivals

New York : Viking, 2004. Call No.: COO
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Multiple Choice is a heart-warming tale of how a mother of two juggles her life when she decides to go back to college. The viewpoint presented is mainly that of the mother, March. Her daughter, Olivia is portrayed as […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations
[HBeditor: We came across a feature article in TODAYonline (24 Nov 2005) where National Heritage Board CEO, Ms. Lim Siok Peng, shared two books that she’s reading. We wrote to National Heritage Board (NHB) for permission to feature Ms. Lim here. The good folks at NHB say their CEO “is […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations
A little cheer to a busy week - a new shipment of books arrived today! Some books were consumed freshly, right after opening the package. First in line was a book by Paul Arden, “It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be“.

London: Phaidon, 2003.
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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
Find out what some folks have chosen for their favourites this year. What about you? What are your favourites this year? Email us and let us know or just leave a comment.
Contributed by Lim Lee Ping, Librarian, Adult & Young People Services
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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
readasia+ book discussion
Date: 17 November 2005
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: library@orchard
With an ever-so-slight sense of trepidation, I attended my first bookclub meeting. The club: readasia+, the book: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the venue: library@orchard programme zone. First, a bit about the book. The Kite Runner was not a title that I would […]

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QUIRKY THEMES: Something Old, Something New. book reviews

Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2005
Call No.: 658.4 MAN [BIZ]
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In a changing world, organizations have to evolve to remain competitive. Change, however is difficult to implement because people are resistant as it takes them out of their comfort zone. In this book, Mary Lynn Manns and Linda […]

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FRESH INK . selected new arrivals

Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Call No.: 658.87 SPE [BIZ]
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Today’s shoppers are – depending on your point of view – either blessed or cursed by an overabundance – a surfeit, an engorgement, a glut – of stuff, amassed under one roof, in a retail concept that […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations
I read Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” Start from this book and if you like it, move on to his other works. They are equally thought provoking. Kundera is a modern classic. I believe I read the book twice, which is rare for me.

New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
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FRESH INK . selected new arrivals

Singapore: SNP Editions, 2005
Call No.: SING ZHE
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Taxi Talk unfolds as a series of scenes about a group of taxi drivers and passengers whose lives connect in ways that are often unexpected and comic – sort of like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Zheng, whose first book was […]

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