coolreads # On Making A Difference - The Joyful Journey of An Educationist

On Making A Difference -
The Joyful Journey of An Educationist
Author: Tan Boon Lin
Publisher: Areca Books
ISBN: 9789675719509

On Making A Difference, the autobiography of Dato Tan Boon Lin offers a candid narrative of an educationist and his passion, both as an educator and administrator, to guide and provide opportunities for other students in the schools where he served as the headmaster. Tan had served, with distinction,  as headmaster at Gajah Berang School in Melaka, Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Kedah and lastly, at Penang Free School, where he was once a student and teacher before assuming the role as its first Asian headmaster.

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coolreads # Retro Books # Beloved Enemy

Beloved Enemy
Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Forge
ISBN: 9780765370815
Year Published: 2013

Beloved Enemy is Eric Van Lustbader’s fifth thriller of his Jack McClure series.

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coolreads # Retro Books # Trojan Odyssey

Trojan Odyssey
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780425199329
Year Published: 2004

In the Trojan Odyssey, which is the 20th in a series of Dirk Pitt novels, Clive Cussler once again grabs your attention and takes you on another thrilling adventure. This time, the whole gang is back in action.

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coolreads # Retro Books # Nothing To Lose

Nothing To Lose
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780739327906

Jack Reacher, the recurring protagonist in the thrillers by Lee Child, is back with a dark mission in book 12 of the series.

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coolreads # Retro Books # Serpent, A Novel from NUMA Files

Serpent, A Novel from NUMA Files
Author: Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0671022164

This novel, from the NUMA Files, is set mostly in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, and occasionally skirting the border of Guatemala. Not surprisingly, Clive Cussler uses this vicinity to reference one of his favourite underworld characters, Quetzalcoatl, a demonic person who can be blamed for any number of atrocities in the world. 

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coolreads # In Too Deep

In Too Deep
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte
ISBN: 9780593725801

In this latest edition of the Jack Reacher series, the action and storytelling downshifts to less thrilling mode.

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coolreads # Horror, He Wrote: The Lady Under the Bridge

Horror, He Wrote:
The Lady Under the Bridge
Author: Tan Jit Seng
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9789815144796

As an award-winning creative director of an advertising agency, Tan Jit Seng started out his passion in writing as the co-creator of Malaysia's first English comic book, Heroines of Darkness, and as a children's book writer, before publishing a compilation of short stories titled Get Spooked: Terrifying Tales Untold.

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coolreads # Retro Books # The Mayan Secrets

The Mayan Secrets
Authors: Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9781405931342
Year Published: 2013

The Mayan Secrets by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry is the fifth book of 13 in the Sam and Remi Fargo Adventures Series. In this book, the Fargos are on a humanitarian mission to help people in Mexico after an earthquake. They then stumble upon the remains of a man clutching a pot which contains a Mayan codex that is larger than any previously discovered book. This leads them on an adventure to protect the secrets within the codex before a wealthy, greedy woman can claim the codex and all it reveals for herself.

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coolreads # Retro Books # Order to Kill

Order to Kill
Author: Vince Flynn with Kyle Mills
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: ‎978-1476783499
Year Published: 2016

Although Vince Flynn died in 2013, the character he created, Mitch Rapp, lives on in this 15th chronicle of the legendary CIA agent’s adventure.

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coolreads # Behind the Stories

Behind the Stories
Author: Lilian Tan
Publisher: The Edge Communication Sdn Bhd
ISBN: 9789672642275

Behind the Stories (BTS) is a collection of anecdotes and recollections by the pioneers on how The Edge was first published - from its conception to the recruitment of core staff, and the trials and tribulations it went through the past 30 years. It offers readers a candid and revealing insight on the business publication that has survived the odds when it first hit the street in September, 1994. And the remarkable journey it had taken to become a business publication that has earned the respect from both the corporate and public sectors.
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