Lion Boy and Fire Girl

Lion Boy and Fire Girl

Author: Pauline Loh

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2021-10-29

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9814901113

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Lion dance troupes from across Asia have gathered in Singapore to challenge the Lion Legends to the race of a lifetime. The stakes? The troupe’s future! As jealousy and betrayal swirl, Apple, the Legends’ youngest idol, finds that he must be the one to keep the brotherhood together. At the same time, he meets Charm, a fiery, monkey-like tomboy he can’t help but be drawn to…


Lion Boy and Drummer Girl

Lion Boy and Drummer Girl

Author: Pauline Loh

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9814785113

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Lion dancers are the new sensations in Asia, and none are as charming or handsome as US import Ricky Ang. But while the rest of the Leopop boys aspire to be the lion head, Ricky would rather goof around as the big head doll. Ironically, drummer girl Ong Ying Ying is the biggest cynic of this Leopop wave. “Don’t fall for a lion dancer,” her mother had always warned her. “He will break your heart.”


Gothiniad

Gothiniad

Author: Surazeus Astarius

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 138726656X

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Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.


Being an American...is O.K.!

Being an American...is O.K.!

Author: Martin Frederick

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-03-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0595141935

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For every American, new insight into what it means to be an American. Despite booming economy, national debt increased $2 trillion along with highest tax burden. Christian beginnings with widely diverse culture and national origins makes America what she is.


Beng Beng Revolution

Beng Beng Revolution

Author: Lu Huiyi

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9814845175

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Beng Hock and his brother, Beng Huat (who prefers to go by Archibald), find themselves navigating a tumultuous Singapore in the near future that has run out of oil and gas. Running afoul of the growing gangs could mean slavery or death, jobs are scarce and food scarcer, and home is a crumbling shanty-town behind the City Hall Steam-Engine Station. And as if these changes aren’t drastic enough, a great power awakens inside Beng Hock, and he must learn how to control it before it destroys everyone and everything in his way.


Nimita's Place

Nimita's Place

Author: Akshita Nanda

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 9814785776

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It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home. In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home. Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?


If It Were Up to Mrs Dada

If It Were Up to Mrs Dada

Author: Carissa Foo

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9814785997

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Today is National Day. It is also Cheryl Dada’s birthday. As Elderflower Home prepares for the celebration, Cheryl Dada too gets ready for her party. Between the hours of noon and seven p.m., she encounters the cantankerous residents and caregivers, her mother and people of yesteryears. What unfolds is a story about a woman coming to terms with age, loss and love.


Kallang Basin Adagio

Kallang Basin Adagio

Author: Khor Kuan Liang

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9814785156

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A tribe of nomads journeys through a post-apocalyptic Singapore devastated by environmental collapse, for the promised land of the Kallang Basin. While searching for shelter, they rescue a starving young boy and his musically-inclined android, who upend the tribe’s dynamic. When machines become symbols of our aspiration and extensions of our will, what role do they serve when we fight to survive? A testament to the strength and endurance of the human spirit.


Impractical Uses of Cake

Impractical Uses of Cake

Author: Yeoh Jo-Ann

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9814845132

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Winner of the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sukhin is a thirty-five-year-old teacher who lives alone. His life consists of reading, working and visiting his parents’ to rearrange his piles of “collectibles”. He has only one friend, another teacher who has managed to force Sukhin into a friendship by sheer doggedness. While on an errand one afternoon in Chinatown, he encounters a homeless person who recognises him. This chance reunion turns Sukhin’s well-planned life upside down, and the pair learns about love and sacrifice over their shared fondness for cake.