It was a shocking way to find out he had a nearly grown son — one so like him in looks and intention. GP Quinn Jamison knew that more than an unexpected pregnancy must have kept Faith away from him for so many years. He couldn't believe she had fallen out of love with him, any more than he had stopped loving her. Now he had a chance to discover the truth…and plan their future.

When the influenza epidemic of 1918 comes to Vermont, eleven-year-old Margaret, who has always wanted to be a physician, finds out what doctoring is like.

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the cat who shows them some tricks and games.

Biomedical theories of autism can offer a plausible explanation of the supposed ‘autism epidemic’ and are increasingly accepted by parents and activists but do they work and are they safe? Dr Fitzpatrick, himself the father of an autistic boy, investigates the scientific evidence around a number of theories.

The readers should be motivated by the passionate approach even the author was born with severe diarrhoea illness. The reverse might give a mighty force to a person the power who deserved it - “Be like a butterfly, go where you can fulfil your life purpose.” (with permission from Eric Chia 2019). The elder son of the author followed his footstep, building a career in the banking and finance sector, who is now an SVP in a large bank, with his wife an SVP in another large bank, and they have a handsome and intelligent son, my grandson! The second son of the author works hard. Still, the second son completed his Masters of Medicine (Family) after MBBS from NUS and his wife, the second-daughter-in-law of the author also a Masters of Medicine (Psychiatry) holder after she graduated with an MBBS from the NUS. They have a daughter and a son. The author continued to pursue his studies while working as a team head of Commercial Loans Division. The author studied from a postgraduate research course, MBA (Distinction, Strategic Marketing, Hull) in 1994 and Doctor of Business Administration (Strategic Management, Finance and Accounting under research and course) from 2013 to 2017. The research title of the author was on the model of “the Chartered Accountants’ propensity to stay in Singaporean Accounting Firms” (Tan, 2019)

Requiem for the Bone Man is a moving, compelling first novel, told with the assurance and skill of a born storyteller. It is also a meditation on the art of healing, as seen in the adventures of its unforgettable central character, Dr. Robert Galen. From his youth as a street-smart son of immigrants to his career as a gifted physician, Galen is tough-minded yet compassionate. Above all, he is deeply human, willing to risk the pain of loss and failure that inevitably comes to those with an unshakeable commitment to a vocation and to friends and loved ones.

Billy Battles is definitely not in Kansas anymore. As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens, Billy is far from his Kansas roots and his improbable journeys are just starting. The year is 1894 and Billy is aboard the S S China sailing to the inscrutable Far East. Trouble is not far behind. He has met a mysterious and possibly dangerous German Baroness. He has locked horns with malevolent agents of the German government and battled ferocious Chinese and Malay pirates in the South China Sea. Later, he is embroiled in the bloody anti-French insurgency in Indochinawhich quite possibly makes him the fi rst American combatant in a country that eventually will become Vietnam. Then, in the Philippines, he is thrust into the Spanish-American War and the brutal anti-American insurgency that follows. But Billys troubles are only beginning. As the 19th century ends and the 20th century begins, he finds himself entangled with political opportunists, spies, revolutionaries, and an assortment of vindictive and dubious characters of both sexes. How will Billy handle those people and the challenges they present? The answers are just ahead.