As the first elected chairman of the Bukit Mertajam Town Council and subsequently a State Executive Councillor in the Penang Merdeka cabinet during the transformative 1950s through to the 1960s, Dr M P L Yegappan emerged as a beacon of integrity and dedication. He stood shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Wong Pow Nee, Penang's first Chief Minister. Yet, despite his pivotal role, Dr M P L Yegappan's story has remained largely untold — until now.Heart of Service delves into the l...

International bestselling mindfulness author and early Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) teams up with admired American Buddhist abbot Soryu Forall to bring you this vital guide to Buddhism. Meng and Soryu carefully pored over the entirety of the early Buddhist texts (EBTs) to faithfully deliver their profound wisdom, packaged with Soryu's incisive sagacity and Meng's uncanny ability to explain deep concepts humorously and understandably. This book is personally blessed by the Dalai La...

Megastar Tam Eyre has no idea what to do with the crumpled note thrown at his head: "If you don't love me, we both die."Bubble-tea-obsessed college girl Lakelynn Frost has 365 days to make the world's most famous pop star fall in love with her. If she can't do it, an old family curse will kill them both.It might be a problem since she can't get tickets to any of his sold-out concerts.Should Lake chase after him with only her grumbly brother Joules f...

Megastar Tam Eyre has no idea what to do with the crumpled note thrown at his head: "If you don't love me, we both die."Bubble-tea-obsessed college girl Lakelynn Frost has 365 days to make the world's most famous pop star fall in love with her. If she can't do it, an old family curse will kill them both.It might be a problem since she can't get tickets to any of his sold-out concerts.Should Lake chase after him with only her grumbly brother Joules f...

Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow...

If you call the light, you will inevitably battle the darkness.Brady is a high school senior, the champion of the outcast and bullied, who becomes the unwitting recipient of a gift that is both beautiful and terrifying. He discovers he can talk to angels and draw down a magnificent and mysterious light from the Blessed Virgin. However, Brady soon realizes that such power comes at a price: If you call the light, you will inevitably battle the darkness.Indeed, a malevolent da...

Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching (Chinese Zhengfayanzang) stands as among the greatest classics of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism, combining speeches, stories, dialogues, poems, and commentaries that the influential master Dahui (1089–1163) extracted from Chan lore. Compiled by Dahui's students during Song Dynasty China, this work is replete with the enigmatic, paradoxical wisdom for which Zen Buddhism is so well known.Central to this collection is the notion of ...

'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri‘Chang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind – I devoured Lee’s last novel, My Year Abroad**, and I can’t wait for this one.’** LitHubFrom the Pulitz...

**From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence“A tour de force… One of contemporary American literature’s major chroniclers of manhood.” —The Atlantic"[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." —The Boston Globe“Moving… a classic bildungsroman.” —The New York Times Book Review"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great Americ...

Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he's dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents' Seattle cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion - even for him.Somehow, he manages to talk his way into a job at a failing Korean cafe, Bingsu for Two. This could be his lucky break - but then he meets grumpy goth Sarang Cho, his new, no-BS co-worker, and she is as determined to make River's life hell as she is to save her family's cafe.After ...

**"Susan Lee always writes the exact book I want to read!" —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisNew from the author of** Seoulmates comes a story of mistaken identities, the summer of a lifetime, and a love to risk everything for.When Elijah Ri arrives in New York City for an internship at his father’s massive tech company, Haneul Corporation, he expects the royal treatment that ...

In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the North Atlantic. Rocked by fifty-foot swells and forty-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship.Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first...