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Heart of Service

The Untold Story of Dr M P L Yegappan

by Steven Chee Keong Sim ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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The Passenger

How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship

by Chaney Kwak ...

Narrated by Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

3 hours 34 min

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 ... Read more

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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
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Buddhism For All

The Joyful Path to Enlightenment

by Chade-Meng Tan, Soryu Forall ...

Narrated by Austin Ku, Keong Sim, Ajahn Sona ...

Unabridged

12 hours

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 ... Read more

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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
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If You Don't Love Me We Both Die 2

by C.M. Stunich ...

Narrated by Vivienne Moon Kells, Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

15 hours 55 min

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 ... Read more

$35.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
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If You Don't Love Me We Both Die

by C.M. Stunich ...

Narrated by Vivienne Moon Kells, Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

14 hours 37 min

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 ... Read more

$25.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
... Read more
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The Phoenix Elite

Sacred Blood

by C.T. Clark ...

Narrated by Greg D Barnett, Carrie Brewer, Nicholas Corda, David S Dear, Daryl Mayfield, Robb Moreira, Sandra Murphy, Keong Sim, Ken Teutsch, Tristan Wright, Sophie Zmorrod ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Phoenix Elite: Genesis Saga
Unabridged

10 hours 52 min

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 ... Read more

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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
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

Narrated by Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, Janina Edwards, Emily Ellet, Cynthia Farrell, Soneela Nankani, David Sadzin, Keong Sim, Candace Thaxton0 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 14 min

An NPR Best Book of the Year“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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An NPR Best Book of the Year“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an
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Knot Again

by Kwana Jackson ...

Narrated by N'Jameh Camara, Keong Sim ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Real Men Knit series
Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

**One of...USA Today's Best Rom-Coms of JulyShondaland's Best Books of JulyBookRiot's Best Romance Novels of JulySometimes fireman Lucas Strong feels like he can only find any peace and quiet at the local laundromat, where every day is rinse and repeat — until a fateful run-in with his high school crush.**Hoping to attract more customers to his family’s knitting shop, Lucas Strong participated in ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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**One of...USA Today's Best Rom-Coms of JulyShondaland's Best Books of JulyBookRiot's Best Romance Novels of JulySometimes fireman Lucas Strong feels like he can only find any peace and quiet at the local laundromat, where every day is rinse and repeat — until a fateful run-in with his high school crush.**Hoping to attract more customers to his family’s knitting shop, Lucas Strong participated in
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

by Ocean Vuong ...

Narrated by Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

1 hour 18 min

WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesLibrary Journal 2016 Best Books of the ... Read more

$7.99 USD

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WINNER of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016"There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from Mr. Vuong's sincerity and candor, and from his ability to capture specific moments in time with both photographic clarity and a sense of the evanescence of all earthly things." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesLibrary Journal 2016 Best Books of the
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The Melancholy of Untold History

A Novel

by Minsoo Kang ...

Narrated by Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative
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Karma of the Sun

by Brandon Ying Kit Boey ...

Narrated by Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die.In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau—civilization’s final survivors—are haunted by ... Read more

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Six suns, six blasts in the sky; a seventh one, and the earth will die.In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau—civilization’s final survivors—are haunted by
... Read more

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Human Acts

A Novel

by Han Kang ...

Narrated by Sandra Oh, Deborah Smith, Greta Jung, Jae Jung, Jennifer Kim, Raymond J. Lee, Keong Sim ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

**FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citationThe internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a “rare and astonishing” (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.**“Compulsively ... Read more

$17.50 USD

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**FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citationThe internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a “rare and astonishing” (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.**“Compulsively
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