Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Singapore, 1910--Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her services as a personal secretary. Unfortunately she discovers her first client dead with a knife in his throat. When Inspector Robert Curran is put on the case, Harriet joins him in investigating what turns out to be a treacherous web of deceit."--Provided...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers, held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra, battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but found, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility--something to offer...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Singapore, three very different women--Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned "trailing spouse" from the United States--find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva who brings their worlds crashing down.
Author
Language
English
Description
Corazon had retired back to the Philippines, but she has returned to Singapore; she's keeping a secret from her wealthy employer, who is planning an extravagant wedding for her socialite daughter. Barely out of her teens, Donita has had the bad luck to be hired by the notoriously fussy Mrs. Fann. Brazenly, Donita has thrown herself into a love affair with an Indian construction worker and started a lively social media account that says more than it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Inspector Singh has returned home to Singapore to rest his weary feet after time spent globe-trotting and crime-solving in Malaysia and Bali. But it's not long before he wishes he would be sent off to another foreign locale. With his wife nagging him and his boss lecturing him about his unconventional work habits, he's thrilled when a new case comes across his desk. A senior partner at an international law firm has been murdered,...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Gretchen Lin leaves behind a floundering marriage to return to her Singapore home, where she confronts the challenges of her mother's alcoholism and her father's artisanal soy sauce business before being pulled into a family controversy.
17) A different sky
Author
Publisher
London
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Singapore, 1927. Three young people are questioning whether this in-between island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan yearns to free herself from the stifling traditions of a famous Chinese dynasty; Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; Raj, fresh off the boat from India, wants only to work hard and become a successful businessman. As the years pass, and the Second World War sweeps through the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He's been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it, he thinks she didn't do it, but no matter how hard he tries to get to the bottom of things, he still arrives back at the same place - that Chelsea's husband was shot at point blank range, and that...
19) Point of contact
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company -- quickly. He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of the best financial analysis firms in the country and the cover for The Campus, a top-secret American intelligence agency. Rhodes asks for two specific analysts, Jack Ryan Jr., and Paul...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In modern Singapore, the paths of a grieving WWII survivor and a young boy converge as they seek to heal long-buried wounds. When Wang Di's husband, Soon Wei, dies, she realizes that her fearful refusal to discuss their war experiences has left her with no knowledge of his life before they married. Prickling with regret, Wang Di searches for the story she couldn't bear to hear from him and relives her own harrowing experience as a 'comfort woman'...
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase