There's No Such Thing as a Skinny Bibik
There's No Such Thing as a Skinny Bibik

Author: Sandra Chua

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 9814984108

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Charlie has always been too tall, too skinny and too wild to ever be considered a proper nyonya. Her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are always looking on in disapproval, yet Charlie knows she must follow her heart in career and in love. That becomes complicated when three men fight for her affection, a major smuggling ring must be investigated and the paparazzi cannot get enough of her!

There's No Stopping This Skinny Bibik
There's No Stopping This Skinny Bibik

Author: Sandra Chua

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published:

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 981510537X

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Nonya Charlie has found love, or so she thinks. Rebel that she is, Charlie Neo has chosen love over her family when she decides to leave Singapore and move to Penang to be with her ex-spy boyfriend. Charlie struggles to build a new life, working various jobs, including the role as assistant for a TV news anchor, and reuniting with a grandaunt who is her own brand of hot-blooded bibik. She becomes embroiled in a kidnapping of two genius hackers and gets into trouble involving money laundering, sending her running back to her Peranakan roots.

Nestor Makhno--anarchy's Cossack
Nestor Makhno--anarchy's Cossack

Author: Alexandre Skirda

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781902593685

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The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the tsarist empire and the civil war that convulsed and bloodied Russia between 1917 and 1921. Mahkno and his people were fighting for a society "without masters or slaves, with neither rich nor poor." They acted towards that idea by establishing "free soviets." Unlike the soviets drained of all significance by the dictatorship of a one-party State, the "free soviets" became the grassroots organs of a direct democracy - a living embodiment of the free society - until they were betrayed, and smashed, by the Red Army. Delving into a vast array of documentation to which few other historians have had access, this study illuminates a revolution that started out with the rosiest of prospects but ended up utterly confounded. More than just the incredible exploits of a guerilla revolutionary par excellence, Skirda weaves the tale of a people, and the organizations and practices of anarchism, literally fighting for their lives.

Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking
Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking

Author: Maangchi

Publisher: Harvest

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1328988120

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"The definitive book on Korean cuisine by "YouTube's Korean Julia Child" and the author of Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking." --

The Keepers of Stories
The Keepers of Stories

Author: Suffian Hakim

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2021-08-08

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9814901474

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In post-independence Singapore, tradition clashes with modernity in this compelling tale of the importance of defining one's own story. When their father Sujakon comes home late one night, raving about bad people coming to take them away, siblings Zuzu and Hakeem are forced to leave everything behind and live in a tent at Changi Beach, with a secret community called Anak Bumi—the Children of the Earth. Here, they learn to live off the land and fend for themselves, and partake in a communal storytelling ritual under the stars called the Wayang Singa. But just as they’ve acclimatised to their new lives, their father disappears without a word and a strange man washes ashore warning of mortal danger from just offshore.

Kopi, Puffs & Dreams
Kopi, Puffs & Dreams

Author: Pallavi Gopinath Aney

Publisher: Epigram Books

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9814901954

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At the turn of the twentieth century, two young men from Palakkad, Puthu and Krishnan, meet aboard a ship bound for Malaya, and strike up an instant connection. Over the next two decades, they set up a restaurant in Singapore selling curry puffs and kopi, become successful, get married and start families. However, Krishnan harbours a dark secret that threatens to destroy the dreams he and Puthu have built together, a secret that only carelessness can reveal…

Singa-Pura-Pura
Singa-Pura-Pura

Author: Nazry Bahrawi

Publisher: Ethos Books

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9811815003

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From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Bahrawi brings together an exciting selection of never-before translated and new Malay spec-fic stories by established and emerging writers from Singapore. Especially in an anglophone-dominated genre, very little of Malay speculative fiction from Singapore is known to readers here and beyond. Yet contemporary Bahasa literature here is steeped in spec-fic writing that can account as a literary movement (aliran)—and unmistakably draws from the minority Malay experience in a city obsessed with progress.