Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 14 hakutulosta
Deadline for Love and Other Stories
The 12 stories in this collection electrify by their dazzling diversity of subject, their relentless observation and comment and their adroit use of language. Through the dark …
A Leap of Love
There is a wonderful ancient Western tradition that allows a woman to propose to a man – but only on 29 February. Only once every four years, in a leap year. On such a momentous …
The Teardrop Story Woman
The Teardrop Story woman is Mei Kwei, born in Malaya in 1934 and doubly cursed - not only is she female, but she also has a tiny teardrop mole in the corner of one eye: a sign of …
Job Stress and Coping Mechanisms Among Nursing Staff in Malaysia
The Bondmaid
At the age of four, Han, a young woman born into dire poverty in 1950s Singapore, is sold as a slave to the wealthy house of Wu. Forming a close bond with the young Wu heir, Han's …
Miss Seetoh in the World
Human Microbiome Drug Targets
Human Microbiome Drug Targets: Modern Approaches in Disease Management presents fundamental information on the human microbiome, looking into the relationship between the …
Following the Wrong God Home
Yin Ling--poor, beautiful, an outstanding student and a poet--is to marry Vincent Chee, a rich PhD student from a very traditional, upper-class family. She will become a dutiful …
The Catherine Lim Collection
The Howling Silence: Tales of the dead and their return
The living and the dead – there is something that binds them. For the living are endlessly fascinated by tales of the dead, whether they are about an old ancestor whose ghost …
A Shadow of A Shadow of A Dream
This collection of eight short stories combines Catherine Lim’s sharp powers of observation with her insightful comments on the conflicts, both internal and external, brought about …
The Song of Silver Frond
One morning in Singapore more than 50 years ago, a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren, …