Atelier Buku, Shah Alam (2026)

23/10/2021

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With a heavy heart, I'd like to announce that Atelier Buku will not be renewing the business license in coming years which bring us to halt in operating. It is indeed, a very, hard decision, but it has been thought long and carefully, overseeing the circumstances.

It's easier to say, 'Atelier Buku is closing', but I choose/refuse not to put a solid end; well, it's a dismal move, as we never know what lies ahead.

Atelier Buku is a journey for me - a start, a growth, suddenly a soul-searching apparatus, it hailed during my lowest point, but definitely in a correct point of the timeline. And so, it will retire in the correct time.

I sincerely thank you for all your supports and loves shown to us, all this while. I hope Atelier Buku had at least bring you joy in books.

Important notes:

1. All books that are shown here are still on sale! (But that is all I have)

2. I will be contacting (or you can contact me first) the customers whose books are still with me.

Goodbye for now, but see you Atelier Buku, in a possible future.

(a hope and a dream. Since forever.) 🤎

23/09/2021

Title & Author : Kebaya Tales by Lee Su Kim
Price : RM8 (excl. postage)
Condition : 7 / 10
Goodreads : 3.82 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
Kebaya Tales is a delightful collection of short stories, teeming with fascinating and interesting characters, unexpected twists and turns, cultural rituals, beliefs and superstitions and poignant events in the life stories of the Peranakans.

Lee Su Kim’s book brings you into another world, a world that many know little about—the world of the Babas and Nyonyas or the Straits Chinese, a colourful, flamboyant and unique community still in existence today in the former Straits Settlements of Malacca, Penang and Singapore. Like her previous books, Lee Su Kim’s stories in this book are laced with humour and occasional gentle satire. All the stories are based on or are inspired by real-life events which Su Kim has collected from her nyonya mother, grandmother, bibiks and nyonyas.

This is a first-ever collection of short stories of a unique cultural community, at the crossroads as to its very survival, but presently enjoying a tremendous resurgence. Su Kim’s debut collection of stories are simply stunning and heartwarming, evocative of a bygone era and a cultural community renowned for its unique multicultural legacy.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams by Jeff Pearce
Price : RM8 (excl. postage)
Condition : 7 / 10
Goodreads : 4.42 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
The poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice

Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich, which he sold down the markets. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he embarked on an extraordinary journey, and found himself, before the age of thirty, a millionaire.

Then, after a cruel twist of fate left him penniless, he, his wife and children were forced out of their beautiful home.

With nothing but holes in his pockets, Jeff had no alternative but to go back down the markets and start all over again. Did he still have what it took? Could he really get back everything he had lost?
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : Behind Closed Doors by Jenny Tomlin
Price : RM8 (excl. postage)
Condition : 7 / 10
Goodreads : 4.11 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
In 'Behind Closed Doors' Jenny Tomlin recounts her traumatic upbringing at the hands of a physically and sexually abusive father, as well as how she and her siblings not only survived but eventually transcended their experiences, and how she went on to find love and happiness in her life.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Price : RM5 (excl. postage)
Condition : 6 / 10
Goodreads : 4.07 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
Alexandre Dumas’s most famous tale— and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time— in a handsome hardcover volume.

This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d’Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress “Milady”; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen—and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto “all for one, one for all” has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : Dracula by Bram Stoker
Price : RM5 (excl. postage)
Condition : 6 / 10
Goodreads : 4.0 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
Dracula is an epistolary Gothic horror novel written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, an Irish author who became famous after writing about the vampire named Count Dracula, who later on had many interpretations (theater, movie and television).
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : Mansfielsld Park by Jane Austen
Price : RM5 (excl. postage)
Condition : 6 / 10
Goodreads : 3.86 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
A timid girl named F***y Price comes to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park when she's just ten years old. Her own family is too big and too poor to raise her well, so her mother decides to send F***y to live with her wealthy relatives instead.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
Price : RM5 (excl. postage)
Condition : 6 / 10
Goodreads : 3.87 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : The Girl Who Chased The Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Price : RM5 (excl. postage)
Condition : 5 / 10
Goodreads : 3.97 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel.

Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes.

Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson’s cakes--which is a good thing, because Julia can’t seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town’s sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she’s hurt in the past?
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : Out by Natsuo Kirino
Price : RM8 (excl. postage)
Condition : 7 / 10
Goodreads : 3.95 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.

The ringleader of this cover-up, Masako Katori, emerges as the emotional heart of Out and as one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed creations in recent fiction. Masako's own search for a way out of the straitjacket of a dead-end life leads her, too, to take drastic action.

The complex yet riveting narrative seamlessly combines a convincing glimpse into the grimy world of Japan's yakuza with a brilliant portrayal of the psychology of a violent crime and the ensuing game of cat-and-mouse between seasoned detectives and a group of determined but inexperienced criminals. Kirino has mastered a Thelma and Louise kind of graveyard humor that illuminates her stunning evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendship that bolsters them in the aftermath.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : Princess by Jean P. Sasson
Price : RM15 (excl. postage)
Condition : 8 / 10
Goodreads : 3.96 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country.Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king. For the sake of her daughters, she has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, regardless of their rank. She must hide her identity for fear that the religious leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak and anonymity. Sultana tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage--a happy one until her husband decided to displace her by taking a second wife--and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants.
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23/09/2021

Title & Author : The Last Empress by Anchee Min
Price : RM8 (excl. postage)
Condition : 8 / 10
Goodreads : 3.83 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ing dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power wielded by one person, the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala -- or Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min’s critically acclaimed novel covering the first part of her life.

The Last Empress is the story of Orchid’s dramatic transition from a strong-willed, instinctive young woman to a wise and politically savvy leader who ruled China for more than four decades. Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the spotlight of the world stage, Orchid must face not only the perilous condition of her empire but also a series of devastating personal losses, as first her son and then her adopted son succumb to early death. Yearning only to step aside, and yet growing constantly into her role, only she—allied with the progressives, but loyal to the conservative Manchu clan of her dynasty—can hold the nation’s rival factions together.
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