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  • Why Fish Don't Exist

    A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World

    by Lulu Miller ...
    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025. The profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world. 'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado 'Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten' NYT As the daughter of a scientist, Lulu Miller was taught that chaos will come for us all. There is no cosmic destiny, no grand ... Read more

    S$ 12.63 SGD

  • Identity Theft, Second Edition

    Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke

    by Debra E. Meyerson, Ph.D., Steve Zuckerman ...
    Identity Theft, Second Edition is an award-winning book that follows Stanford professor Debra Meyerson’s journey to recover from a severe stroke that initially left her physically incapacitated and unable to speak. In addition to providing realistic expectations for the hard work needed to regain everyday capabilities, Meyerson and Zuckerman focus on the less frequently documented emotional ... Read more

    S$ 12.20 SGD

  • Careless People

    A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    by Sarah Wynn-Williams ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL,** SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!**“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she al... ... Read more

    S$ 23.21 SGD

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    by Lori Gottlieb ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.”—Katie Couric“This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global“Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.”—... ... Read more

    S$ 25.82 SGD

  • 毛澤東私人醫生回憶錄（40萬冊暢銷經典版）

    The Private Life of Chairman Mao

    by 李志綏 ...
    Series series 歷史與現場
    【熱銷40萬冊歷史經典重現】揭露毛澤東的性、政治、死亡和權謀內幕近距觀察毛澤東第一手珍貴史料毛澤東的生理與心理，和他的絕對權力交互影響，進而波及中國和世界。本書以絕對第一手資料，披露毛澤東的政治與權謀，性與死亡。這是有關毛（或許也是有關歷史上任何一位專制者）的著作中，最深刻入微的一本。——黎安友（美國漢學家／哥倫比亞大學政治系教授）李志綏自1954年被任命為毛澤東的保健醫生後，便將平日所見所聞記錄下來寫成日記。1966年，文化大革命中興起抄家風，害怕受到牽連，李家將日記全數燒毀。1976年文革結束後，李志綏之妻催促他寫出之前的種種經歷。1994年10月，移居美國的李志綏透過蘭登書屋出版了《毛澤東私人醫生回憶錄》。由於書中敘述親眼所見的毛澤東其人其事，詳細披露了毛不光彩的真實面貌，因此引發中共高層震怒。本... ... Read more

    S$ 16.99 SGD

  • Free

    Coming of Age at the End of History

    by Lea Ypi ...
    **Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club Pick for July 2026The International BestsellerWinner of the Ondaatje Prize | Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize | Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Prize**'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Wasted

    A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

    by Marya Hornbacher ...
    Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to ... Read more

    Was S$ 14.81 SGD Now S$ 4.17 SGD

  • A Hippocratic Odyssey

    Lessons From a Doctor Couple on Life, In Medicine, Challenges and Doctorprneurship

    by Suresh K Pandey, Vidushi Sharma ...
    Do you want to transform your passion for becoming a doctor or successful medical professional into reality? Can't wait to use your medical knowledge and skills to serve humanity? While you may have an undying passion to help people at their most vulnerable times, you might still find the thought of interacting and building a relationship with patients overwhelming.If you can relate to the above, ... Read more

    S$ 19.83 SGD

  • Turtles of the World

    A Guide to Every Family

    by Dr. Whit Gibbons, Jeffrey Lovich ...
    Series series A Guide to Every Family
    A lavishly illustrated guide to the world's turtles that covers every family and genusTurtles of the World reveals the extraordinary diversity of these amazing reptiles. Characterized by the bony shell that acts as a shield to protect the softer body within, turtles are survivors from the time of the dinosaurs and are even more ancient in evolutionary terms than snakes and crocodilians. Of more ... Read more

    S$ 30.07 SGD

  • In Her Room

    How Music Helped Me Connect With My Autistic Daughter

    by James Cook ...
    When James Cook's daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer', as he and his wife were telling friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns around the house, had a marked response to music, but never pointed at anything, and hadn't crawled yet.At the age of two-and-a-half, after months of invasive tests, Emily was finally diagnosed ... Read more

    S$ 13.83 SGD

  • The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead

    A Memoir

    by David Shields ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.“Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer.”—The Wall Street JournalMesmerized and ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Gotham Girl Interrupted

    My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love, and Epilepsy

    by Alisa Kennedy Jones ...
    Nora Ephron and Allie Brosh fans take note: Alisa Jones' memoir Gotham Girl Interrupted is a smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down."Get to your safe spaces, people. Here comes the shimmer..."From irreverent NYC blogger Alisa Kennedy Jones comes an account of her "misadventures in motherhood, love, and epilepsy" that James Patterson calls "smart, harrowing, heart-warming, and very ... Read more

    S$ 13.72 SGD

  • Everything is True

    A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic

    by Dr Roopa Farooki ...
    CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ IT' ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMAN'SEARING' GUARDIAN, 50 hottest reads for summer'The most powerful and evocative account of working ... ... Read more

    S$ 13.40 SGD

  • This is Going to Hurt

    The bestselling secret diaries of a junior doctor, now a major BBC comedy-drama

    by Adam Kay ...
    **The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw.‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry**Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Cham Tao Soon: Life At Speed

    by Tao Soon Cham ...
    My autobiography is a record of my life and interactions with many interesting people over the course of my work. This involved key industries and organisations like Keppel Corp, Wearnes, Natsteel, SPH, UOB, LTA, JTC, and SSO. Having the good fortune to meet many prominent Singaporeans such as Tan Chin Tuan, Wee Cho Yaw as well as Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Goh Keng Swee, Dr Toh Chin Chye, Mr Lim Kim San ... Read more

    S$ 29.20 SGD

  • Newton

    Ackroyd's Brief Lives

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton’s long ... Read more

    S$ 17.65 SGD

  • The Cowshed

    Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    by Ji Xianlin ...
    Translated by Chenxin Jiang ...
    A harrowing account of a scholar’s imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution, this monumental memoir is one of the few surviving recordings of the movement’s oppositionThe Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labor camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme ... Read more

    S$ 19.06 SGD

  • Dark Side of the Moon

    Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race

    by Wayne Biddle ...
    A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago.This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of “rocket scientist” Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply only ... Read more

    S$ 24.73 SGD

  • Teacher's Race Course, A: Ruminations And Reflections

    by Siok Hui Sie ...
    In a frank contemplation as she nears the end of her shortened course of life, educator Sie Siok Hui reveals moments of epiphany while honing her craft and examines critical factors in the curriculum design process. With inimitable candour, she probes education issues and calls for compassionate awareness of the challenges Singapore students and teachers face.This is a must-read not only for ... Read more

    S$ 19.83 SGD

  • Counter-Intelligence

    What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity

    by Robert Hannigan ...
    Best Books of 2024, The EconomistFrom the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativityHow do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and decode encrypted technology?How do you come up with creative, counterintuitive solutions to solve major global ... Read more

    S$ 30.73 SGD

  • Privacy is Power

    Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

    by Carissa Véliz ...
    An Economist BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAs the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it.The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, w... ... Read more

    S$ 16.12 SGD

  • The Essential Scalia

    On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law

    by Antonin Scalia ...
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions, with an intimate foreword by Justice Elena Kagan“[Scalia’s writings] are as readable today as they were when they first appeared. . . . Especially illuminating to anyone who wants to unlock the mystery of why Ginsburg admired ... Read more

    S$ 17.65 SGD

  • Faster Cures

    Accelerating the Future of Health

    by Michael Milken ...
    Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean your teeth, or if a single vaccine could protect you against multiple viruses, or if gene editing could ... Read more

    S$ 27.89 SGD

  • The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill

    A Treasury of More Than 1,000 Quotations and Anecdotes

    by James C. Humes ...
    "Courageous, bellicose and humorous. . . . To anyone who wishes to have a generous source of quotations, this is the one. Churchill address audiences for seven decades. To those who follow World War II, this is an inspiring book to read and keep on your shelves." — Indianapolis StarA treasury of more than 1,000 quotations by and anecdotes about one of the most erudite, clever, and eloquent ... Read more

    S$ 14.81 SGD