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  • Costume Quick View
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    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Costume

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    • by Yeng Pway Ngon In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is a lonely old man mourning his shattered dreams. His granddaughter Yu Sau struggles to take care of him while trying to make sense of her own life in a rapidly changing country. He speaks Cantonese, and…
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  • Exile or Pursuit Quick View
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    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Exile or Pursuit

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    • by Chia Joo Ming   Hok Leong only knows one thing about his future: he does not want to become an office boy buying coffee for his superiors. Beyond this, he wants only to roam the streets of Singapore with his rough and tumble gang of boys—that is, until he is assigned to be the Chinese tutor for the new…
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    • Young-Adult
    • Flight of the Bumblebee

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    • by Huang Beijia Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman   Nanjing, China, 1937. Eight-year-old Orange is uprooted from her comfortable home when the family is forced to flee from Japanese bombing raids. They take refuge in Chengdu, West China, where she grows up with her professor father, hard-working mother, two sisters, two brothers and Tianlu, a war orphan. At…
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  • Half of Each Other Quick View
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    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
    • Half of Each Other

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    • by Roger Pulvers Half of Each Other takes place in Tokyo.  It tells the story of Nick and Setsuko York, a once very fond married couple devoted to their adorable five-year-old daughter, Emi. Half of Each Other is the story of a woman and a man challenged by the shock of an overwhelming grief.  Both are overcome by an immense…
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  • Hide and Seek: a story guide on traditional games Quick View
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    • Hide and Seek: a story guide on traditional games

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    • Story and Illustrations by C. Rebecca A chance encounter with a crying stone sends Danny and friends across the island of Singapore in search of its missing friends. Hide and Seek brings you on the adventure of rediscovering old games as they learn how to play Hopscotch, Five Stones, and more! Ages:   3+ ISBN:  978-1-913891-16-9 Format: Paperback 216 x 216 mm…
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  • Hunters and Gatherers: What Can We Learn from Them Quick View
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    • Hearing Others' Voices, Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Hunters and Gatherers: What Can We Learn from Them

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    • by Alan Barnard FBA (University of Edinburgh) “The book spells out the great human achievements that have been brought about by humans who hunt and gather – across the millennia. It also shows that these achievements go beyond hunting and gathering alone. They depend on particular ways of understanding the human environment and the world at large. Alan Barnard points…
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    • Picture Books
    • Kai the Dancing Butterfly

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    • Story by Crystal Z. Lee Illustrations by Allie Su 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 need to hurry and start flying south. That's far for a butterfly! Kai is worried about…
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  • Mr Mona Lisa Quick View
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    • World Literature
    • Mr Mona Lisa

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    • by Arlene Jaffe He tells Leonardo DaVinci exactly how to paint a portrait of his young wife. Her pose, her wardrobe, her hairstyle, even the background technique. He values the status and bragging rights of owning the masterpiece over the masterpiece itself. He is paying, after all. And it was his idea in the first place. So. Who is Francesco…
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    • Myna Bird as Free as a Cloud

    • Illustrations by Yu Rong Translated by Helen Wang A story about love and freedom narrated from the point of view of a lost myna bird which comes to human society. Beautifully illustrated book using Chinese paper cuts.     Ages:   3+ ISBN:  978-1-911221-296 Format: Paperback 216 x 216 mm Pages: 40 pp Colour Publication Date:  August 2021  
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  • Raise the Bottles Quick View
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    • World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Raise the Bottles

    • GBP 15.99
    • Collection of Short Stories by Huang Chun-Ming Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt From trains to classrooms to mountains, in this collection of short stories, Huang Chunming traverses across the Taiwan island to deliver his readers bewitching stories of love, loss, and family. Each story crafts a poignant snapshot depicting private minds in public spaces. A young man has…
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    • Picture Books
    • Sleepy, Sleepy New Year

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    • Story and Illustrations by Meng Yanan  Bao Bear has never heard of Chinese New Year. He decides to invite the Fox, Mouse, and Bunny families together to learn more about this celebration. However, as the end of autumn nears and Bao Bear gets sleepier, can he stay awake to find out? From the Bronze and Sunflower Picture Book Award-winning author…
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  • The Archaeology of a Dream City Quick View
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    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • The Archaeology of a Dream City

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    • by Monica Raszewski Born and raised in Australia, Martha longs to return to Nadwodom, in a country called Czawa, where her parents and family grew up. As she stumbles upon the works of Marion Porter, an Australian photographer who once photographed the countryside in Czawa, Martha's own journey to her family's homeland begins to unfurl. There, she meets her cousin,…
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