“kwa heri means goodbye by dorothy stevens”

In 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an exotic new world, facing safari ants, wild bees, a... More

The main character, Melissa, is girl of seventeen when the story begins, and just a few years older when the book ends. When the Revolution of 1964 killed her parents, she was taken in by a cousin and her husband. Work for an Asian girl was impossible to find after the professional men fled the isla... More

Struggling to find her path in the Rainbow Nation, Miss Kwa Kwa begins stalking a politician who becomes utterly enamored by the seemingly simple girl, introducing her to the world of Studio 94--the most elite and secret of nightclubs. A raucous political satire of the racism, greed, and criminal am... More

MK, the lady usually causing all the trouble, faces it from all sides--political fanatics, Hollywood party girls, a secret agent, and local television--in this rollicking sequel to "Miss Kwa Kwa," Upon waking up a week after she remembers going to bed, MK realizes sinister plots are afoot in Johanne... More

A three volume study of Mary in the New Testament (1), the Hebrew Scriptures (2), and the Apocryphal Gospels and Sub-Apostolic Writers (3).A three volume study of Mary in the New Testament (1), the Hebrew Scriptures (2), and the Apocryphal Gospels and Sub-Apostolic Writers (3).... More

In Kwa's debut novel, four narrators tell two stories, one of a contemporary Chinese-Canadian psychologist mourning the death of her father, another of two Chinese prostitutes in early 20th century Singapore.... More

Set in 8th century China during the Tang Dynasty, "The Walking Boy" is a vivid and compelling novel inspired by true historical events during the final years of the reign of the country's only female emperor. Abandoned as a young child to the care of an aging hermit monk, Baoshi lives a simple and p... More

This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the country's first foreign minister, he was pivotal in conceptualizing and implementing its foreign policy. Present at the birth of the Association of Sout... More