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Inspector Singh investigates volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Meet Inspector Singh: a fat, slightly bumbling, but truly lovable detective sure to charm readers of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped, and he's in a bad mood. A famous Singaporean model is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it; he thinks she didn't do it; but she had the best motive: he was taking her kids away from...
5) Mommy sayang
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Aleeya, concerned when her beloved mother becomes sick, remembers and returns the promise Mommy has made to her--that she will always be by her side.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride..." Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want her to become a ghost...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Children
Día Booklist (K-Grade 2) 2023
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People K-2 2023
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Children
Día Booklist (K-Grade 2) 2023
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People K-2 2023
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"Nina's visits to her two faraway grandmothers-one in Malaysia and one in England-unfold side-by-side, featuring similarities and differences between the two"--
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Series
to volume 116
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
不甘命運被支配的女子 闖入幽冥,拯救她被侵犯的靈魂 《彼岸之嫁》女主角黃姵嘉、黑咖啡聊美劇站長Castle推薦 ◎Netflix 2020年1月強檔影集【彼岸之嫁】原著小說,金鐘獎最佳男女主角吳慷仁、黃姵嘉領銜主演 ◎《紐約時報》排行榜、蘋果電子書排行榜暢銷書 一天傍晚,父親問我願不願意當鬼新娘…… 十九世紀,英國的殖民地馬六甲,有許多華人移民家族世居在此。他們接受西方文化洗禮的同時,也遵循其華人祖先的習俗過生活。潘麗蘭是經商致富的華人移民後代,但多年前爆發天花疫情,使她摯愛的母親病逝;而潘父則因病毀容,從此深居簡出,荒廢家業。...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power. . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother. In life, Ah Ma was a spirit medium, avatar of a mysterious...
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Kalamata's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Kalamata and her friends Al Dente, Kyo, Dovie, and Knox are practicing their dance routine for the upcoming talent show. But none of them agree on what the routine is missing--Dovie thinks it needs more twirls, Knox wants more break-dancing, and everyone is getting frustrated! Luckily for the Electric (Fried Chicken) Sliders (as their group is called), all the magic they need to create a great dance routine is within reach! As Kalamata, Kyo, and...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
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Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
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"Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother"-- Melati Ahmad believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city...
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