A Gift Guide: Books by Filipino Authors

A Gift Guide: Books by Filipino Authors

This holiday season, why not give these books as gifts to Filipinos and non-Filipinos so we all may #filtheshelves?

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Butt Catchers Over the Years

Butt Catchers Over the Years

How Filipinos turned an everyday item into something extraordinary.

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A Book Fair to Remember (and Get Ready For)

A Book Fair to Remember (and Get Ready For)

Filipino writers and books make a presence in the largest book fair in the world.

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My Great-Grandfather’s Memoir: From Notebook to Book

My Great-Grandfather’s Memoir: From Notebook to Book

How the writer was finally able to publish his great-grandfather’s autobiography which was written in an older form of Ilocano, a language he didn’t know.

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On Cloud 9 at Filbookfest 7 in San Francisco

On Cloud 9 at Filbookfest 7 in San Francisco

Ka-isa-isa to mean one and only… is an apt summary of the writer’s state of being: at one with the social environment, and yet, one and only one,” the writer Ninotchka Rosca explained as she opened the 7th Filipino American International Book Festival, whose theme this year was  “Kaisa’t Kasama: Celebrating our Diverse Voices and Solidarity.”

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An Illustrator’s Illustrious Award

An Illustrator’s Illustrious Award

Meet Fil-Canadian Sarah Gonzales, winner of the 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award for the book The Only Way to Make Bread.

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Call Center Caper

Call Center Caper

The Quiet Ones says those who appear burdened by the impositions of capitalism have the power to effectively manipulate the system in their favor.

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A Tiny But Mighty Home

A Tiny But Mighty Home

Although the story in Our Nipa Hut takes place in the Philippines, it gives voice to what is happening around the world.

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Up Close and Architectural: Houses that Sugar Built

Up Close and Architectural: Houses that Sugar Built

Have an intimate look at the old mansions of the Filipino sugar gentry.

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China and Duterte: ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’

China and Duterte: ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’

Investigative journalists Marites D. Vitug and Camille Elemia’s book, Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace, says it was not all smooth sailing for Duterte’s pro-Beijing leanings.

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