Rebecca Lim
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"Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English...
2) Muse
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An angel searching for answers, for her destiny...In the third Mercy paranormal romance, Mercy wakes in a new unknown host, her love for Ryan and Luc burning stronger than ever. But who will she make the ultimate sacrifice for? There's something very wrong with me. When I wake up, I could be anyone... Mercy is thrust into the excessive world of fashion when she awakes in the body of a troubled Russian supermodel, Irina: bitchy, hot-tempered and known...
3) Mercy
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An electric combination of angels, mystery and romance, MERCY is the first book in a major paranormal series.
There's something very wrong with me. I can't remember who I am or how old I am, or even how I got here. All I know is that when I wake up, I could be any one. It is always this way.
There's nothing I can keep with me that will stay. It's made me adaptable.
I must always re-establish ties.
I must tread carefully or give myself away.
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4) Fury
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Heartbreak. Vengeance. Fury.
Mercy is an exiled angel cast down to earth and forced to live out thousands of different lives for her own protection. Betrayed by her eternal love, Luc, Mercy burns with fury. The time of reckoning is here and now she must wage open war with Luc and his demons.
Ryan's love for Mercy is more powerful than ever, but loving an angel is mortally dangerous. As their two worlds collide, Mercy approaches her ultimate...
5) Exile
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Exile is the second book in a major new paranormal series that began with Mercy. Mercy's search continues ...All Mercy knows is that she is an angel, exiled from heaven for a crime she can't remember committing. So when, she 'wakes' inside the body and life of eighteen-year-old Lela Neill, Mercy has only limited recall of her past life. Her strongest memories are of Ryan, the mortal boy who'd begun to fall for her, and she for him. Lela's life is...
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Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Award for Best Young Adult Fiction, 2015
Shortlisted, Davitt Awards, Best Young Adult Novel, 2015
Shortlisted, Aurealis Awards, Best Young Adult Novel, 2014
Longlisted, Gold Inky Award, 2015
Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book for Older Readers, 2015
Kirkus Best Teen Books, 2015
Avicenna Crowe’s mother, Joanne, is an astrologer with uncanny predictive powers
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There are disturbing developments going on at Chez Newton - the messy home that Whiffy Newton shares with his father.
His dad's started dating again (er, yuk), and Whiffy's not sure if he trusts his dad's new girlfriend, Vonda, who's just a bit too interested in Dr. Newton's work for Whiffy's liking.
And there's a mysterious force at work in Dr. Newton's laboratory. Whiffy's almost convinced that it's the ghost of his late mother, trying to tell him...
8) Afterlight
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Since her parents died in a freak motorbike accident, Sophie Teague's life has fallen apart. But, she's just enrolled at a new high school, hoping for a fresh start. That's until Eve, a beautiful ghost in black, starts making terrifying nightly appearances, wanting Sophie to be her hands, eyes and go-to girl.
There are loose ends that Eve needs Sophie to tie up. But, dealing with the dead might just involve the greatest sacrifice of all.
Dark, thrilling...
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Whiffy Newton, dont le vrai prénom est Alfred, ne ressemble guère à un super détective amateur.
Ses vêtements sont trop courts et trop serrés, il n'est jamais choisi en premier pour former une équipe de sport et sa vision est nulle.
Mais il peut toujours compter sur ses deux meilleurs amis Doreen et Paz pour former une équipe de detectives nommée l'Agence.
Jusqu'à maintenant, l'Agence n'a mené que de petites enquêtes discrètes pour venir...
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Someone is stealing all the trousers in Kentwood and, this time, Whiffy's hapless inventor father, Dr. Bruce Newton, has nothing to do with it. Or does he?
Trousers are being daringly snatched in broad daylight, taken apart, and horribly put back together, so that bizarre, two-toned trousers are appearing all over town-sinisterly nailed to the front doors of some of the city's wealthiest socialites.
Who is behind these ghastly garment murders and...
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Whiffy Newton, real first name Alfred, hardly looks like a crack amateur super-sleuth.
His clothes are too short and too tight. He never gets picked first for sports. And he has poor eyesight.
But he's got his two best friends - Doreen and Paz - and together, the three friends form the detective outfit The Agency.
Until now, The Agency has only handled the discreet enquiries of other put upon children at Kentwood High. But The Case of the Dastardly...
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Il se passe de drles de choses chez les Newton, la maison désordonnée o habite Whiffy Newton en compagnie de son père.
Son père a une nouvelle copine (euh... pouah!) et Whiffy ignore s'il doit faire confiance à cette Vonda qui semble un peu trop intéressée par les travaux du Dr. Newton.
C'est sans compter qu'une force mystérieuse est à l'œuvre dans le laboratoire du Dr. Newton. Whiffy est pratiquement convaincu qu'il s'agit du fantme de...
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It's summer at last! And the mysterious Agency for Creative Enterprise has packed Whiffy and his father off on an all-expenses-paid holiday to sleepy Marble Beach so that Dr. Newton can finish testing his latest loopy invention, The Hydrolator.
But Marble Beach's residents are being terrorized by a fiend who strikes at the worst time and place - dinnertime and in the vicinity of Marble Beach's only fish and chip shop.
Can Whiffy and his best friends,...
14) Wraith
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It was a new world to which we were confined because of a bargain I'd made with Death himself: no paradise for Luc and the exiled, and none for me.
But the moment I made my choice, I was marked for sacrifice, as was Ryan. A price was settled; a debt, escalated. Time. There would never be enough.
It's been two years since Gia Basso witnessed archangels and demons waging war upon each other beneath the dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan....
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L'été est enfin arrivé. Et la mystérieuse Agence pour les esprits créateurs a dépêché à ses frais Whiffy et son père au petit village endormi de la plage aux Agates pour que le Dr Newton puisse y éprouver sa plus récente invention, l'hydrolateur.
Mais il se passe une vilaine chose à la plage aux Agates : ses habitants sont terrorisés par un forban qui frappe à l'heure la plus indue, celle du dîner, aux abords du seul casse-croûte...
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Quelqu'un vole tous les pantalons de Kentwood et, cette fois-ci, le père de Whiffy, le docteur Bruce Newton, inventeur infortuné, n'a rien à voir dans cette affaire. N'est-ce pas ?
Les pantalons disparaissent au grand jour, puis sont mutilés et rafistolés de façon horrible, donnant ainsi lieu à l'apparition d'étranges pantalons deux tons aux quatre coins de la ville, sinistrement cloués à la porte de quelques-unes des personnalités mondaines...
17) The Sweet Life
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Janey couldn't wait to see her friends' faces. Imagine, she thought. I have a stalker. Like I'm some kind of A-list celeb or something.
Who is the sinister 'Fellini', tracking Janey Gordon through cyberspace? And why is he posting warnings to her MySpace page?
Sixteen-year-old Janey is all alone in the world apart from her trio of best friends ... until she discovers a mysterious letter that leads her to long-lost family, thousands of miles...
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Have you got a passion for fashion? Six best friends, three stories in one!
Prunella prefers surfing to fashion. Yet somehow, her ginormous height and broken nose attract a talent scout at a local modelling competition, and her besties insist she try out. Does she have a shot, at the prize?
Abby is the secret author of a blog loved by fashionistas everywhere. But when, Abby blogs about an upcoming fashion collaboration, she learns firsthand the...
19) 100 yards
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RLJE Films
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[2019]
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English
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Rich Porter had it all: talent, good looks, and a bright future as the quarterback; then tragedy struck. His mother goes missing while volunteering in the Philippines and Rich cannot find her. He receives more bad news when he is diagnosed with a brain tumor. At the hospital, a young boy with the same condition and a kind nurse do their best to bring hope to Rich. They show him that the game of his life is a struggle for every yard, but, with the...
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Mediacorp TV Singapore Pte Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文
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In this fifth season of the police thriller, the action turns towards the sea. Wang Man Ting (Rebecca Lim), the officer-in-charge of the Coastal Patrol, watches over the border security. An efficient but tough leader, she crushes many smuggling cases in her career. A new batch of recruit joins her team, but not understanding her leadership style, they often clash. Will she be able to gain their allegiance with her no-nonsense approach?Man Ting suffered...
