Author: Stella Kon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Emily of Emerald Hill
Author: Stella Kon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Emily of Emerald Hill
Author: Stella Kon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Humboldt
Author: Emily Brady
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1922072613
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the vein of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture — built on marijuana. Outside the United States, the words ‘Humboldt County’ mean little. Inside the United States — the home of the war on drugs — those words might prompt a knowing grin. For many people, the name is infamous, and yet the place and its inhabitants have been nearly impenetrable. Until now. Humboldt is a narrative exploration of this insular community in northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. It’s a place where business is done with thick wads of cash, and savings are buried in the backyard. In Humboldt County, marijuana supports everything from fire departments to schools. As legalisation looms, the community stands at a crossroads, and its inhabitants are deeply divided — some want to claim their rightful heritage as master growers and have their livelihood legitimised, while others want to continue reaping the inflated profits of the black market. Emily Brady spent a year living with the highly secretive residents of Humboldt County, and her cast of eccentric, intimately drawn characters take us into a fascinating alternate universe. It’s the story of a small town that became dependent on a forbidden plant, and of how everything is changing as marijuana goes mainstream.
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1922072613
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the vein of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture — built on marijuana. Outside the United States, the words ‘Humboldt County’ mean little. Inside the United States — the home of the war on drugs — those words might prompt a knowing grin. For many people, the name is infamous, and yet the place and its inhabitants have been nearly impenetrable. Until now. Humboldt is a narrative exploration of this insular community in northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. It’s a place where business is done with thick wads of cash, and savings are buried in the backyard. In Humboldt County, marijuana supports everything from fire departments to schools. As legalisation looms, the community stands at a crossroads, and its inhabitants are deeply divided — some want to claim their rightful heritage as master growers and have their livelihood legitimised, while others want to continue reaping the inflated profits of the black market. Emily Brady spent a year living with the highly secretive residents of Humboldt County, and her cast of eccentric, intimately drawn characters take us into a fascinating alternate universe. It’s the story of a small town that became dependent on a forbidden plant, and of how everything is changing as marijuana goes mainstream.
The Wayang at Eight Milestone
Author: Gregory Nalpon
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9810764588
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This long overdue collection gathers together sixteen of Gregory Nalpon’s short stories, eleven of his essays, and a selection of his sketches of life in coffee shops, hawker stalls and samshu shops. Through his writing, Nalpon poignantly records a lost, rich world: the colourful, exciting and sometimes perilous Singapore of half a century ago. With this collection, a vital Singaporean voice is finally recovered. Nalpon’s inspired blend of close observation, legend, local superstition and peculiarly eclectic reading results in some of the most imaginative and exciting writing produced in Singapore during the 1960s and 1970s, including authentic descriptions of indigenous culture and working-class men and women rarely found in Singaporean writing of the period.
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9810764588
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
This long overdue collection gathers together sixteen of Gregory Nalpon’s short stories, eleven of his essays, and a selection of his sketches of life in coffee shops, hawker stalls and samshu shops. Through his writing, Nalpon poignantly records a lost, rich world: the colourful, exciting and sometimes perilous Singapore of half a century ago. With this collection, a vital Singaporean voice is finally recovered. Nalpon’s inspired blend of close observation, legend, local superstition and peculiarly eclectic reading results in some of the most imaginative and exciting writing produced in Singapore during the 1960s and 1970s, including authentic descriptions of indigenous culture and working-class men and women rarely found in Singaporean writing of the period.
Brute
Author: Emily Skaja
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978835
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978835
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.
Emerald Tree Boas
Author: Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher: Epic Books
ISBN: 9781626170926
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Engaging images accompany information about emerald tree boas. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
Publisher: Epic Books
ISBN: 9781626170926
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Engaging images accompany information about emerald tree boas. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
Sing a Song of Piglets
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618011374
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
From skiing in January to surfing in July, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the years in this calendar in verse.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618011374
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
From skiing in January to surfing in July, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the years in this calendar in verse.
A Breeding Pair
Author: Stella Kon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singaporean drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Passages
Author: Shu Hoong Yong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810776954
Category : Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810776954
Category : Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fish Eats Lion
Author: Jason Lundberg
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502984821
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Fish Eats Lion collects the best original speculative fiction from Singapore - fantasy, science fiction, and the places in between - all anchored with imaginative methods to the Lion City. These twenty-two stories, from emerging writers publishing their first work to winners of the Singapore Literature Prize and the Cultural Medallion, explore the fundamental singularity of the island nation in a refreshing variety of voices and perspectives. This anthology is a celebration of the vibrant creative power underlying Singapore's inventive prose stylists, where what is considered normal and what is strange are blended in fantastic new ways. "Lundberg combines accessibility with a uniquely Singaporean flavor in his selections. SF readers looking to expand their horizons will enjoy visiting new worlds from an unaccustomed point of view." - Publishers Weekly "I doubt I'll read a more engaging collection this year. [...] There's a rich optimism to be found here that speaks of lesser-known spec-fic writers rising to a challenge, and that challenge being more than adequately met." - Pete Young, Big Sky "Entertaining in this post-colonial era, it hints at how storytellers can become mythmakers, with the power to change the world." - Akshita Nanda, The Straits Times
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502984821
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Fish Eats Lion collects the best original speculative fiction from Singapore - fantasy, science fiction, and the places in between - all anchored with imaginative methods to the Lion City. These twenty-two stories, from emerging writers publishing their first work to winners of the Singapore Literature Prize and the Cultural Medallion, explore the fundamental singularity of the island nation in a refreshing variety of voices and perspectives. This anthology is a celebration of the vibrant creative power underlying Singapore's inventive prose stylists, where what is considered normal and what is strange are blended in fantastic new ways. "Lundberg combines accessibility with a uniquely Singaporean flavor in his selections. SF readers looking to expand their horizons will enjoy visiting new worlds from an unaccustomed point of view." - Publishers Weekly "I doubt I'll read a more engaging collection this year. [...] There's a rich optimism to be found here that speaks of lesser-known spec-fic writers rising to a challenge, and that challenge being more than adequately met." - Pete Young, Big Sky "Entertaining in this post-colonial era, it hints at how storytellers can become mythmakers, with the power to change the world." - Akshita Nanda, The Straits Times