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- Location(s): Rosales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 19th / Early 20th century
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called the first great Filipino novels written in English. Set in the 1880s, Dusk records...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set mainly during the pre-martial law era of the 1950s, the story takes its reader back to the arrogant world of Ermita, the former “rich district” of the Philippine Republic.
Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Fil and Filippa – Story of Child Life in the Philippines at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John Stuart Thomson is in...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1940's
In 1941, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the Philippines and subjected its people to rape, enslavement and murder with an estimated 1 million Filipinos killed during the conflict. In December of 1944, the USA took the islands back...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The novel pinpoints many insights that illuminate the subtle interplay of people in Manila in the 1990’s. Simple and direct… the pages turn at the speed of light.
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Current
It begins with a body. One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone is the controversial giant of Asian literature. And missing is the only manuscript of his final book, an...
In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 19th and 20th Centuries
Corazon Aquino’s dramatic emergence in the Philippines in 1986 captured the imagination of the world and focused attention on what was for decades America’s only major colonial possession. This book portrays America’s 19th- and 20th-century empire builders and examines...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to Bangkok. Bribery, corruption, money laundering and murder. They re not out to get you it s just how they do business. Once a high-flying international lawyer and renowned expert on global money laundering, the urbane and straight-shooting...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
After being discharged from the Marines, John Buchanan takes a position as overseer for plantation owner Ignacio Saenz. The work is good, but the real draw for John is Mount Mayon, the active volcano looming on the island’s horizon. Finally...
- Location(s): Rosales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Sionsil Jose is seen as one of the Philippine’s greatest novelists. The Rosales Novels are a series of five novels about the life of a small Illocano town in Central Luzon (Rosalles) after which the Novels are named. I am...
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