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- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Would you give up everything you know to find paradise? That’s the question facing movie producer, Ted LaSalle. After a string of personal tragedies, Ted decides to leave it all behind and purchase his own island off the Philippine...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
“AN OFTEN LYRICAL AND ALWAYS TOUGH-MINDED DEBUT . . . Provides rare insight into the three cultures–Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino–that coexist in the Philippines.” –The New York Times Book Review Caridad’s mother never writes. So when a letter arrives...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): late 19th Century
Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer–“ wonderful debut… resembles Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club members”*–comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. It’s...
- Location(s): The Philippines, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Unfolding traces the return from Los Angeles of Benjamin, the son of an indigent farm worker, who escaped the poverty of his hometown, San Jacinto, with the help of the seemingly benevolent Don Rafael. Drawn back to his...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): early 2000s
Working on highly sensitive diplomatic affairs, Darcy Prescott is a natural target for terrorist kidnappers. But when she’s mysteriously plucked off a street in Manila one sultry night, Darcy’s disappearance isn’t what it seems… The moment Special Forces soldier...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family...
When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most...










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