**DISCOVER THE KOREAN BESTSELLER AND STEP INTO A MAGICAL WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEAn uplifting and healing gift of a book that asks would you trade your life for another one?**'A warm and wondrous story [...] Gentle, affirming, and utterly transportive' Julie Long, author of The Teller of Small Fortunes----On the first day of the monsoon an old ramshackle building appears.This is The Rainfall Market.Inside you...

This book critically examines the discourses and policy responses surrounding China’s success in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), offering alternative approaches to engaging with Chinese education through a nuanced understanding of its experiences and intellectual traditions.China’s exceptional PISA performance has ignited a global conversation on “learning from Chinese education.” Yet this discourse often reflects the geopolitics of knowledge and remains ...

In Singapore, a loudly ‘pro-family’ society, why is work-life balance so elusive? And why are parents so uneasy? What accounts for this gap between the lived reality and ideal narrative of Singapore families?Sociologist and bestselling author Teo You Yenn turns her eyes to the contours and rhythms of life inside families, exploring how ‘kiasu’ parents are made and investigating the ways in which inequality marks life in contemporary Singapore. Drawing from in-depth interviews with ...

'For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window**YOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOODTHERE'S A BODY DOWNSTAIRSYOUR MOTHER'S BODYYOU DIDN'T DO IT. DID YOU?HOW COULD YOU, YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THE GOOD SON**THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION FROM KOREA'S MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR YOU-JEON...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?The way we frame our questions shapes the way we see solutions. This book does what appears to be a ...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL).Level 3 - A2/B1 Intermediate (1)Word count: 7,623Billy and Joey are art thieves. They steal paintings from museums and castles.Mr. Sweeney, a rich art collector, asks Billy and Joey to steal the famous painting "The Girl in the Blue Dress".If they steal it for him, he will give them a million pounds.Billy is excited. He wants to steal the painting because he wants the money.Joey is not so su...

He had been reborn in a foreign land. Although there were no lights, there were candles. Although there were no neon lights, they were much more beautiful than neon lights. As a peasant girl, although her life was poor, she felt that it was not bad since she had distanced herself from the conflict.However, eating porridge every day was indeed a bit tiresome, so she started to get angry. She brought her whole family along to get rich, to get rich, and finally to cre...

Alec, an A-rank adventurer, meets Shiori, a woman with the mysterious appellation “housekeeping mage.” She has so little magical power that she’s useless as a combat mage, but to make up for it, she uses her magic to take care of all the daily chores of an expedition, like washing and cooking, single-handedly.As Alec adventures with Shiori, her novel use of magic provides a warm bath and delicious food...in other words, an environment much too comfortable to be called “camping”!

This is a book (the best English transaction version) with the best 300 poems selected from the Tang Dynasty in Chinese (ts). As we know well, the Tang Dynasty used to be a splendidly leading country at its time no matter in culture, economic and political power. Also, the poems of the Tang Dynasty is the best part in mankind culture.

IT’S PLAY TIME!Rita is Convict No. 999, a former legendary assassin who now works at a kindergarten for the children of the world’s most powerful people. Her job is to protect the kids from the clutches of would-be assassins! But even with her overwhelming strength, Rita has one fatal flaw—she falls head over heels for good-looking men, even if they’re her enemies! Can she find the hottie soulmate of her dreams amid the chaos at the “world’s safest kindergarten”?

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Excitement is building in Storydia as the summer solstice festival nears, but sightings of a Fenrir—a wolf-type mythical beast—near Brovito Village have the locals worried that tourism will suffer as a result. And what if there is another wolf attack?! Shiori and Alec agree to investigate, but when the Fenrir goes out of its way to find them before they can find it, the stage is set for...a fateful bonding of brothers?What’s more, looming in the north as all of this is happening ar...