In today’s challenging and busy world, don’t you wish you knew how to quieten your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation. With his knowledge of all the various schools of practice and the ancient texts, he breaks down the complicated practice into a simple and easy method that any working man or woman, young or old, can practice in their everyday lives.
Archives: Books
Kids Learn! Getting Ready for Grade Kindergarten
Bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction and prepare students for the
upcoming grade level with the objectives-based activities in reading, writing, and
mathematics found in Kids Learn!
This series will reinforce information learned during the school year through a wide
variety of engaging tasks. It prepares students for upcoming grade-level work by
building vocabulary and providing a necessary base of prior knowledge. Students
will practice grade-level skills in reading, writing, and math, and develop higherlevel thinking skills through full-colour objectives-based activities. It helps improve
critical-thinking skills and make real-world connections to learning and motivate
students with the provided recognition award. It prepares for next-generation
assessments with assessment practice in language arts and mathematics.
Kids Learn! Getting Ready for Grade 1
Bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction and prepare students for the
upcoming grade level with the objectives-based activities in reading, writing, and
mathematics found in Kids Learn!
This series will reinforce information learned during the school year through a wide
variety of engaging tasks. It prepares students for upcoming grade-level work by
building vocabulary and providing a necessary base of prior knowledge. Students
will practice grade-level skills in reading, writing, and math, and develop higherlevel thinking skills through full-colour objectives-based activities. It helps improve
critical-thinking skills and make real-world connections to learning and motivate
students with the provided recognition award. It prepares for next-generation
assessments with assessment practice in language arts and mathematics.
Kids Learn! Getting Ready for Grade 2
Bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction and prepare students for the
upcoming grade level with the objectives-based activities in reading, writing, and
mathematics found in Kids Learn!
This series will reinforce information learned during the school year through a wide
variety of engaging tasks. It prepares students for upcoming grade-level work by
building vocabulary and providing a necessary base of prior knowledge. Students
will practice grade-level skills in reading, writing, and math, and develop higherlevel thinking skills through full-colour objectives-based activities. It helps improve
critical-thinking skills and make real-world connections to learning and motivate
students with the provided recognition award. It prepares for next-generation
assessments with assessment practice in language arts and mathematics.
Kids Learn! Getting Ready for Grade 3
Bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction and prepare students for the
upcoming grade level with the objectives-based activities in reading, writing, and
mathematics found in Kids Learn!
This series will reinforce information learned during the school year through a wide
variety of engaging tasks. It prepares students for upcoming grade-level work by
building vocabulary and providing a necessary base of prior knowledge. Students
will practice grade-level skills in reading, writing, and math, and develop higherlevel thinking skills through full-colour objectives-based activities. It helps improve
critical-thinking skills and make real-world connections to learning and motivate
students with the provided recognition award. It prepares for next-generation
assessments with assessment practice in language arts and mathematics.
Kids Learn! Getting Ready for Grade 4
Bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction and prepare students for the
upcoming grade level with the objectives-based activities in reading, writing, and
mathematics found in Kids Learn!
This series will reinforce information learned during the school year through a wide
variety of engaging tasks. It prepares students for upcoming grade-level work by
building vocabulary and providing a necessary base of prior knowledge. Students
will practice grade-level skills in reading, writing, and math, and develop higherlevel thinking skills through full-colour objectives-based activities. It helps improve
critical-thinking skills and make real-world connections to learning and motivate
students with the provided recognition award. It prepares for next-generation
assessments with assessment practice in language arts and mathematics.
The Dogs
Tian, a middle-aged man, moves into an old flat that had once belonged to his late father, to live out the rest of his life. As he goes about his days, he starts to reminisce about his childhood in a kampong in Singapore in the 1950s, and his friendship with Heng Chong, a schoolmate.
Growing up, making their own fun and mischief, the boys developed a close friendship that was tested by the sudden appearance of a stray dog in their kampong. As secrets abounded and lies crept into their lives, a spark of retaliation soon set off a chain of events that led inevitably to an unforeseen tragedy that threw a long dark shadow over Tian’s life.
As he looks back to find the answers to the mystery that surrounded this tragedy, Tian gains a deeper understanding of his own past and the true nature of loss, regret, and redemption, and discovers new hope and a new life imbued with resilience, fortitude, and purpose.
How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays
How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays is a coming-of-age story of a woman who leaves home to work in Shanghai following the death of her mother. In a collection of ten travel essays, she writes about living in another culture to learn another language and the experiences that shaped her view on what it means to be her own person, a daughter, a friend, a lover and a citizen of the world.
The Blood Prince of Langkasuka
‘Meet a prince racing against the clock to solve a string of palace murders in medieval Malaysia . . .’
– Bustle magazine
The Blood Prince of Langkasuka is a reimagining of an ancient Southeast Asian vampire legend; the coming-of-age story of Raja Bersiong or the Fanged King. The monster is not always who you expect it to be-seventeen-year-old Raja Perita Deria, a carefree, self-centred young prince who descends into despair, as he turns into an angst-ridden vampire, while confronted with a chilling series of murders in the palace of Langkasuka. Will he find the strength to save himself and his kingdom?
Described by Gerakbudaya Bookshop, Penang as ‘a strongly told tale, reworking one of the earliest surviving legends of Nusantara (maritime Southeast Asia)… what follows is thwarted love, plots and deaths, the presence of the supernatural in everyday life, and a seemingly unstoppable path to doom and destruction.’
The Blood Prince of Langkasuka was picked by K.W. Colyard as one of ‘The 35 Best Vampire Books to Read Now,’ in the April 2022 issue of Bustle Magazine.
It was also picked by Emily Hughes of Nightfire Newsletter as the February pick in ‘All The Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2021’ – A vampire novel set against the political landscape of 12th Century Southeast Asia, following a prince whose chance encounter with an irresistible woman leaves him craving blood.
The Rosales House
The Rosales House is a contemporary novel about Claire Rosales, a twenty-eight year old advertising executive in Singapore, who hails from a powerful political clan in the Philippines. Claire’s orderly life in Singapore is disrupted by the death of her influential grandmother Gloria Rosales. With Gloria’s demise, Claire loses her constant support and her strongest pillar especially after her broken wedding engagement. Moreover, the Rosales estate is now divided and the clan will have to rely more on Claire’s uncle, Ric, a congressman, for their public face. Claire knows only too well, though, that Ric is not the charismatic family man he pretends to be.