Lion Boy And Fire Girl

Author : Pauline Loh
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789814901116

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Lion Boy and Fire Girl by Pauline Loh Pdf

Lion dance troupes from across Asia have gathered in Singapore to challenge the Lion Legends to the race of a lifetime. The stakes? The troupe’s future! As jealousy and betrayal swirl, Apple, the Legends’ youngest idol, finds that he must be the one to keep the brotherhood together. At the same time, he meets Charm, a fiery, monkey-like tomboy he can’t help but be drawn to…

Author : Pauline Loh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ego (Psychology) in adolescence
ISBN : 9814901105

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Lion Boy and Fire Girl by Pauline Loh Pdf

Author : Pauline Loh
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785112

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Lion Boy and Drummer Girl by Pauline Loh Pdf

Lion dancers are the new sensations in Asia, and none are as charming or handsome as US import Ricky Ang. But while the rest of the Leopop boys aspire to be the lion head, Ricky would rather goof around as the big head doll. Ironically, drummer girl Ong Ying Ying is the biggest cynic of this Leopop wave. “Don’t fall for a lion dancer,” her mother had always warned her. “He will break your heart.”

Author : Martin Frederick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780595141937

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Being an American...is O.K.! by Martin Frederick Pdf

For every American, new insight into what it means to be an American. Despite booming economy, national debt increased $2 trillion along with highest tax burden. Christian beginnings with widely diverse culture and national origins makes America what she is.

Author : Lu Huiyi
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814845175

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Beng Beng Revolution by Lu Huiyi Pdf

Beng Hock and his brother, Beng Huat (who prefers to go by Archibald), find themselves navigating a tumultuous Singapore in the near future that has run out of oil and gas. Running afoul of the growing gangs could mean slavery or death, jobs are scarce and food scarcer, and home is a crumbling shanty-town behind the City Hall Steam-Engine Station. And as if these changes aren’t drastic enough, a great power awakens inside Beng Hock, and he must learn how to control it before it destroys everyone and everything in his way.

Author : Akshita Nanda
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785778

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Nimita's Place by Akshita Nanda Pdf

It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home. In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home. Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?

Author : Carissa Foo
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785990

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If It Were Up to Mrs Dada by Carissa Foo Pdf

Today is National Day. It is also Cheryl Dada’s birthday. As Elderflower Home prepares for the celebration, Cheryl Dada too gets ready for her party. Between the hours of noon and seven p.m., she encounters the cantankerous residents and caregivers, her mother and people of yesteryears. What unfolds is a story about a woman coming to terms with age, loss and love.

Author : Khor Kuan Liang
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785150

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Kallang Basin Adagio by Khor Kuan Liang Pdf

A tribe of nomads journeys through a post-apocalyptic Singapore devastated by environmental collapse, for the promised land of the Kallang Basin. While searching for shelter, they rescue a starving young boy and his musically-inclined android, who upend the tribe’s dynamic. When machines become symbols of our aspiration and extensions of our will, what role do they serve when we fight to survive? A testament to the strength and endurance of the human spirit.

Author : Yeoh Jo-Ann
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814845137

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Impractical Uses of Cake by Yeoh Jo-Ann Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sukhin is a thirty-five-year-old teacher who lives alone. His life consists of reading, working and visiting his parents’ to rearrange his piles of “collectibles”. He has only one friend, another teacher who has managed to force Sukhin into a friendship by sheer doggedness. While on an errand one afternoon in Chinatown, he encounters a homeless person who recognises him. This chance reunion turns Sukhin’s well-planned life upside down, and the pair learns about love and sacrifice over their shared fondness for cake.

Author : Ning Cai
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785099

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Misdirection (Book One of The Savant Trilogy) by Ning Cai Pdf

Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2016 Longlist The first book in an exciting new YA mystery trilogy about a teenage savant on the trail of her family's killer, from the multi-talented Ning Cai, international magic celebrity and author. When parkour champion Maxine Schooling wakes from a three-year coma, she has no memory of how her parents and little brother were killed the night she was attacked. Using her new-found photographic memory, she covertly helps her hacker BFF with the police investigation of a savage serial killer on the loose. In her race to track down the Singapore Spectre, Max finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy involving stage illusions, a secret exposé, and a controversial megachurch headed by a powerful man. For over a decade, Ning Cai was known as a multi-award-winning stage illusionist and escape artist. After a brief period of retirement, she returned in 2017 as the mentalist Ning: Mind Magic Mistress. Her memoir Who is Magic Babe Ning? was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize.

Author : May Seah
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814845151

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The Movie That No One Saw by May Seah Pdf

Finalist for the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Adjonis Keh (the “d” is silent) is a successful actor who apparently has everything: looks, adoration, a shelf filled with acting awards, and all the vanilla yogurt he can eat (thanks to a hefty endorsement deal). He also has a dark secret: he can’t act. So far, he has managed to fool the world with a clever little trick—until the day he meets an inquisitive young journalist whose unexpected friendship causes him to question everything in his life.

Author : Judith Huang
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785815

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Sofia and the Utopia Machine: A Novel by Judith Huang Pdf

Finalist for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sofia is an ordinary schoolgirl living in a future Singapore where the population is divided into three social strata. When she inadvertently unlocks the gateway to a new world, she realises she must escape the government’s radar. She ventures into the lowest rung of society, the Voids, and meets with the eccentric Uncle Kirk and the resourceful Father Lang. While on the run, she learns why her father disappeared seven years ago and why the new world exists in the first place.

Author : Andre Yeo
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814785792

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9th of August by Andre Yeo Pdf

Six suicide bombers have slipped into Singapore. Their mission: to set off explosives on the country’s 55th National Day. They were sent by Tun, an Afghan with a tragic past. Trying to stop them is Inspector Rahim, who is tracking a new terror group. And caught up in the plot is Henry, a single parent whose wife revealed a terrible secret on her deathbed.

Author : Teo Xue Shen
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9789814655446

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18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen Pdf

This action-packed thriller follows a squad of 18-year-olds who must fight an army of Savages in a war they did not choose. Ren is an elite fighter who feels no emotions. That makes him the perfect soldier to battle the Savages, a feral army of half-animal, half-human species prowling outside the 18 walls protecting the city...at least that’s what the propaganda machine will have him believe. He and his motley squad are armed with genetic enhancements before venturing beyond the walls. They come to learn more about themselves and their enemies than they could have ever imagined.

Author : Tham Cheng-E
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814655071

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Band Eight by Tham Cheng-E Pdf

In the Nation, citizenship is competitively earned, and the sting of failure strikes swift. The smallest professional blemish may spell demotion or even deportation to offshore labour communities called Depositories, while the affluent are insured against all misfortune and can do no wrong. Santhosh is a Transient student hoping to ace the Civil Primaries and make Citizen the following year, when his father is suddenly deported and State agents murder his guardian’s entire family. Adopted by a motley band of fugitives who hold wealthy Citizens ransom for a shot at freedom, Santhosh searches for his father and struggles to keep his integrity in a world where the only true choices are luxuries.