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Author: Crystal Z LeePublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: May 10, 2021Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913891135ISBN-13: 9781913891138

A story about seven schoolchildren promised to come back for a reunion twenty years later on the Mid-Autumn Festival, to their Island of Gaillardias. The Taiwanese writer Li Tong's award-winning...

The past gets in the way of present and future possibilities, yet without it, what hope is there for self-knowing and wisdom? These questions are explored in Yeo Wei Wei's transcreation and...

Yang Tianyi is attractive and intelligent, finally makes a disastrous marriage to Wang Lian. At the Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. Hua Zheng is framed as one of the...

Diablo's BoysAuthor: Yang HaoPublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2025Number of Pages: 246 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1913891526ISBN-13: 9781913891527

Traditional Chinese cuisine, jade, batik, embroidery, and horticulture. In Soon Ai Ling's fiction, newly translated into English by Yeo Wei Wei, the lives of twentieth-century Chinese diaspora...

Born in 1912, Qian Xiuling displayed exceptional academic prowess from a young age. Inspired by the achievements of Marie Curie, she departed China at the age of 17, earning a dual doctorate in...

This book contains 51 sermons on High Days and Holy Days in the Christian calendar. Though arising from the author's own religious experience, many of the themes are universal and speak to people of...

Kai and Ami are dancing butterflies from Taiwan! They have a performance coming up at the Winter Festival dance show in the southern part of the island. They are currently in northern Taiwan, so they...

Kris et Kate construisent un bateau dans le sable et leur chien Holly gambade autour d'eux. Ils s'aventurent dans une crique, sous le regard de leur me`re reste?e sur le rivage. Un doux conte magique...

Liv Grimstad is riding on a suburban train in Sydney, Australia in 1975 when she takes notice of the old man sitting opposite her. Though his features are different, she recognizes that man by the...

Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what's an insecure guy to do? Lonely Face is the story of a man on the cusp of middle age, left behind by changing times. Fleeing his...

In World War II Singapore (1942-1945), many people went through unimaginable suffering. Siew Chin was forced to become a "comfort woman" in a Japanese military brothel. Her husband Tiong was taken...

An Australian woman, burdened by the original sin of her Caucasian ancestors, and a Taiwanese woman, haunted by the memories of 100 years of conflict in her homeland, meet as backpackers while...

Mr Horton has fashioned a violin out of a magic tree. But just who is worthy of playing it? The Prince won't do, and neither will the famous conductor Mr Octave, nor the richest man in town. When...

Author: Clara-Sue KidwellPublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: October 10, 2019Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911221639ISBN-13: 9781911221630

Riku Sato is in the fifth grade, when he moves from Utsunomiya to Fukushima to switch schools. Minamisoma, the town he arrives in, is virtually deserted-after the devastating earthquake and tsunami...

On a day of earthquake and rain, a young man gets bad news. Ripden, his childhood friend, has been swept away by a landslide. He makes his way back to Malbung, the village of his birth, and the...

How do you brand a revolution? In his engaging new book, Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A Graphic Designer's Tale, Rob Janoff - designer of the world-famous Apple logo - shares what it was like to...

Author: Monica RaszewskiPublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: June 15, 2021Number of Pages: 220 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913891062ISBN-13: 9781913891060

It is because of Mr Zibra that the Caramel Pudding Symphony Orchestra, a previously unknown orchestra, has been elevated to the status of World No. 3. As a result, Mr Zibra gets to attend the best...

The Enchanted Bells: Marco Piccolo?CoS Musical Adventure - 9781911221920Author: April ChungPublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: May 20, 2021Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Once upon a time in the long long ago there were two children. One was poor. One was rich. One was very good at sums. The other one was not. But they liked each other a lot. And all the time they...

Author, playwright, translator, theater and film director Roger Pulvers has translated and adapted one of world theater's greatest comic classics, Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector. This...

Author: Ishikawa TakubokuPublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: Nov 15, 2020Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911221868ISBN-13: 9781911221869

Two children build a boat in the sand, then, dreamlike, it becomes a rowing boat. Their dog Holly frisks round them in the sand. They venture out into a sea inlet, watched by their mother from the...

Vacant SteppesAuthor: Steven SyPublisher: Balestier PressPublication Date: 7-Sep-21Number of Pages: 324 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913891070ISBN-13: 9781913891077

An award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried in the sand and sailing off to far-off fantastic lands in a stormy sea-driven adventure with their...