The Brilliant Oil Lamp
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The Brilliant Oil Lamp
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Author : Quek Hong Shin
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
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The Brilliant Oil Lamp written by Quek Hong Shin and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Join Asha and her friends from The Amazing Sarong and The Incredible Basket, as she moves from her cosy shophouse to a housing estate in Toa Payoh. The buildings are tall, the apartments are new. Asha's home even has electric lights! Her family begins the rites of blessing for their new home using a beautiful oil lamp. Suddenly, the power is cut and everything goes dark. But Asha has an idea—why not share the lamp's light with their new neighbours? The children also have fun with shadow play, and even light sparklers with the lamp. See how one brilliant light brings new and old friends together.
The Amazing Sarong
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Author : Quek Hong Shin
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 2017
The Amazing Sarong written by Quek Hong Shin and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Isn’t a sarong just a boring big piece of cloth? What can be so amazing about it? Nora and Adi are about to go to the beach when their mother takes off her baby sling and hands it to the two children. They discover that there is more than meets the eye to this seemingly ordinary sarong. Join Nora and Adi as they go on a playful day out and discover what unexpected fun, joy and new encounters the sarong can bring.
The Incredible Basket
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Author : Quek Hong Shin
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
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The Incredible Basket written by Quek Hong Shin and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Winner of the 2019 Singapore Book Awards Best Children's Picture Book In this sequel to The Amazing Sarong, a beautiful Chinese wedding basket is used in myriad ways. Xiaoming delivers a batch of ang ku kueh with the basket, then fashions it into a prop for a lion dance. When the sun beats down on him, he repurposes the basket's cover as a hat! At home in a second-floor shophouse, the basket is attached to a rope to pass a comic book and a bowl of noodles. Oh, how creative of Xiaoming!
Brilliant
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Author : Jane Brox
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2010-06-29
Brilliant written by Jane Brox and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with History categories.
This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
The Marvellous Sugee Cake
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Author : Quek Hong Shin
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
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The Marvellous Sugee Cake written by Quek Hong Shin and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Fiction categories.
On Simon’s seventh birthday, sugee cake promises to be more than just a birthday treat—it brings together family and friends. Simon’s family always makes sugee cake on special occasions. And today is one of those days. It’s Simon’s seventh birthday! He can’t wait to bite into a slice. But when Simon sits down to enjoy his treat, things don’t go as planned. Or so it seems, for unbeknown to Simon, his friends and family have been planning a birthday surprise for him—one that involves a marvellous sugee cake! A homage to sugee cake that vows to entertain readers as they follow the adventures of Simon and his friends.
The Maze At Windermere
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Author : Gregory Blake Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-01-09
The Maze At Windermere written by Gregory Blake Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with Fiction categories.
Named one of the best books of 2018 by The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The Advocate “Staggeringly brilliant . . . You’ll start The Maze of Windermere with bewilderment, but you’ll close it in awe.” —The Washington Post “Pitch perfect.” —New York Times Book Review When a drunken party guest challenges him to a late-night tennis match, Sandy Allison finds himself unexpectedly entangled in the monied world of Newport, Rhode Island. A former touring pro a little down on his luck, Sandy has nothing to stake against the vintage motorcycle his opponent wagers. But then Alice DuPont—the young heiress to a Newport mansion called Windermere—offers up her diamond necklace. With this reckless wager begins a dazzling narrative odyssey that braids together four centuries of aspiration and adversity in this renowned seaside society capital. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a young Henry James, soon to make his mark on the world, turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences; an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport’s earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited. Gregory Blake Smith weaves these intersecting worlds into a rich, brilliant tapestry. A deftly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, The Maze at Windermere charts a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart.
Light
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Author : Lewis Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Light written by Lewis Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Light categories.
What Are We Doing Here
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Author : Marilynne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2018-02-20
What Are We Doing Here written by Marilynne Robinson and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Literary Collections categories.
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”
Eden S Wish
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Author : M. Tara Crowl
language : en
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Eden S Wish written by M. Tara Crowl and has been published by Disney Electronic Content this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
All twelve years of Eden's life have been spent in an antique oil lamp. She lives like a princess inside her tiny, luxurious home, but to Eden, the lamp is nothing but a prison. She hates being a genie. All she wants, more than anything, is freedom. When Eden finds a gateway to Earth inside the lamp, she takes her chance. In a moment, she's entered the world she loves. And this time, she won't be sent back after three wishes. Posing as the new kid at a California middle school, Eden revels in all of Earth's pleasures—but quickly learns that this world isn't as perfect as she always thought it was. Eden soon finds herself in the middle of a centuries-old conflict between powerful immortals. A ruthless organization run by a former genie will stop at nothing to acquire the lamp and its power—including hurting Tyler and Sasha, the mortal friends who have given Eden a home. To save her friends—and protect the magic of the lamp—Eden will have to decide once and for all where she belongs.
The Middle Stories
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Author : Sheila Heti
language : en
Publisher: McSweeney's
Release Date : 2012-04-10
The Middle Stories written by Sheila Heti and has been published by McSweeney's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-10 with Fiction categories.
Wildly acclaimed in Canada, this book marks the debut of a remarkable young writer first published by McSweeney's when she was twenty-three and living at home with her dad and brother. The Middle Stories is a strikingly original collection of stories, fables, and short brutalities that are alternately heartwarming, cruel, and hilarious. This edition, marking the 10th anniversary of The Middle Stories, will be designed in the newly iconic McSweeney's paperback style, and will be published shortly before Heti's newest novel, How Should A Person Be?, emigrates from Canada via Henry Holt & Co.