Different sights. Different experiences. What happened in the middle of EDSA? How did the people come together? Let us remember one of the most significant events in our history. (Edsa by Russel Molina)⁠

El Filibusterismo is a sequel to Noli Me Tangere. A dark, brooding, at times satirical novel of revenge, unfulfilled love, and tragedy, the Fili (as it is popularly referred to) still has as its protagonist Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra. Thirteen years older, his idealism and youthful dreams shattered, and taking advantage of the belief that he died at the end of Noli Me Tangere, he is disguised as Simoun, an enormously wealthy and mysterious jeweler who has gained the confidence of the colony’s governor-general.⁠

Noli Me Tángere, Latin for "Touch me not", is an 1887 novel by José Rizal during the colonization of the Philippines by Spain to describe perceived inequities of the Spanish Catholic friars and the ruling government. ⁠

America Is in the Heart, sometimes subtitled A Personal History, is a 1946 semi-autobiographical novel written by Filipino American immigrant poet, fiction writer, short story teller, and activist, Carlos Bulosan. The novel was one of the earliest published books that presented the experiences of the immigrant and working class based on an Asian American point of view and has been regarded as "[t]he premier text of the Filipino-American experience."In his introduction, journalist Carey McWilliams, who wrote a 1939 study about migrant farm labor in California (Factories in the Field), described America Is in the Heart as a “social classic” that reflected on the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America who were searching for the “promises of a better life”.

How many lives fit in a lifetime?⁠ When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands.⁠

This singular work of scholarship expands on a key first person account of European exploration to reveal much about shipboard victuals and early interactions between seafaring adventurers and local peoples in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.

Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian, trained in geography and cartography, who was one of just 18 survivors of the first sea voyage around the world. The expedition, led initially by Ferdinand Magellan, left Spain in 1519 seeking a westward route to the spice islands of modern day Indonesia. Along the way, its members would encounter starvation, malnutrition, and foods that no Europeans had ever recorded eating.

Magellan’s death in what are now the Philippines was the result of battle precipitated by his demands for food from local villages, but it is just one example that Sta. Maria, a dedicated scholar of Filipino and culinary historian, highlights using Pigafetta’s journals as original sources. She supplements them with other sources as ancient as the thirteenth century along with twenty-first century archeological discoveries. Her endnotes are detailed and extensive, touching on subjects as diverse as the conjugation of root words in Philippine languages and sixteenth-century Italian coinage.

Also included, as an kind of extended supplement, is a glossary of food terminology drawn from 19th century dictionaries of the Cebuano language used in the southwest Philippines, providing a glimpse at possible ways that local culinary culture had changed since Pigafetta’s time and, of course, how it has change in the more than 100 years since.

This is a compact book, 7.5″ x 5.25″, 160 pages, cleanly designed but set in small type, likely 8 points. Paperback.

A picture book based on the beloved Filipino children's song, Bahay Kubo. It includes essays by archaeologist Stephen Acabado and poet Kristian Sendon Cordero and illustrations by Aldrin Camacho.

In celebration of Goldilocks' 50th anniversary, this edition of the Goldilocks Bakebook features over 50 timeless recipes that Filipinos all over the world have come to love.

There are about 700 recipes in this book, quite a feat when these are all from one person — Maria Ylagan Orosa — or inspired by her. Orosa is a much-neglected figure in Philippine history and culture. But while she was cited mainly for her work in the resistance against Japanese occupation, it is her collected recipes that is her better legacy. They are the result of her work as researcher and nutritionist at the Bureau of Science and Bureau of Plant Industry. — Michaela Fenix

Lily loves being Chinese and Filipino. It means she can have two of everything! She has two names, two languages, and even two birthdays! But when she is asked if she’s just Chinese or Filipino, how will she ever choose between the two?

Until today, the debate on what is the national food of the Philippines continues. Some declare it is the adobo because this is the traditional food. Some say it is sinigang, because the ingredients are easily mixed and matched. Still, others cry it is kinilaw because it is genuine and the purest food that can represent the whole nation.

So, what exactly is Filipino food? Or better yet, how does food become Filipino? In Dila at Bandila, the first book in the Lasa ng Republika series, join Ige Ramos on his quest for the national taste of the Philippines and to find out why, of all the foods the Philippines is known for, there is a special group of Filipino food which for him symbolizes the taste that is truly Filipino.

Audrey Sanders had much to look forward to. She graduated high school and had accepted an offer to go to a University of her choosing. Everything seemed to be in order until a car accident that should have killed her.

Now, what she had planned had to be placed on hold. Her senses are overbearing, leaving her feeling hopeless. The warmth of humans, their scent and the taste of them in the air. It all clouds her ability to merge back with society.

There are dangers waiting in the dark while she is vulnerable. An old hatred that has its sights on her. As the threat of her new world envelops her a unique position of her upbringing adds a twist that nobody was expecting.

Fiction by Filipinos in America deals with oppression, flight, dislocation, unrequited love, longing for an idealized home; these are stories of fierce loyalty for family and friends, and always that tenacity to deal with life's hardships and remain undefeated.⁠

Stamped: An Anti-Travel Novel Exasperated by the small-minded tyranny of his hometown, Skyler Faralan travels to Southeast Asia with $500 and a death wish. After months of wandering, he crosses paths with other dejected travelers: Sophea, a short-fused NGO worker; Arthur, a brazen expat abandoned by his wife and son; and Winston, a defiant intellectual exile. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from one Asian city to another, confronting the mixture of grief, betrayal, and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.⁠

The hero of Lysley Tenorio’s sharp and compassionate debut novel, “The Son of Good Fortune”, isn’t sure of much about his identity, and what he is sure of isn’t good.⁠
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He knows he’s 19 and about to be a father with a woman who doesn’t want to talk to him. He knows he has a sudden $10,000 debt to pay off. He knows he can’t easily earn that money because he’s in the United States illegally. In Tagalog, he’s “tago ng tago” – hiding and hiding.⁠

A major collection of contemporary poetry, Returning a Borrowed Tongue brings Filipino/Filipino American poets from both sides of the Pacific Ocean together for the first time, in a single anthology of poetry. Ranging from celebrated poets such as Jessica Hagedorn and N.V.M.⁠

English is often a primary literary language for Filipino writers--not only for those in the Philippines but for those resident in the US; both groups are included in this anthology of 31 stories and 108 poems documenting a tradition that began at the turn-of-the-century.⁠

Viajero, Spanish for "The Wanderer" or "The Traveller", is a 1993 English-language novel written by Filipino author F. Sionil José. The literary theme is about the constant search of the Filipino people for “social justice and moral order”.⁠

When Marcella Leones relocates her family of aswang vampires from the Philippines to Portland, Oregon, she raises her grandchildren under strict rules so humans will not expose them. Her only wish is to give them a peaceful life, far away from the hunters and the Filipino government that attempted to exterminate them.⁠
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Before she dies, she passes on the power to her eldest grandchild, Percival. He vows to uphold the rules set forth by Leones, allowing his family to roam freely without notice. After all, they are aswangs.⁠
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However, when the aswang covenant is broken, the murder rate in Portland rises drastically. Who is behind the murders? And who is behind the broken covenant? Along with sensie Penelope Jane, Percival must find the truth.⁠
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It's then they discover that there are other breeds of aswangs—werebeasts, witches, ghouls, and viscera—who have been residing in Portland for years.⁠
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Based on Filipino folklore (aswang), “Vampires of Portlandia” is a fantastical tale of different monsters coexisting in the weirdest city in America. ⁠

The Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and unattractive and unwanted she is. She's flipping tables and throwing chairs. She's raising her voice. She's keeping a sharp focus on the violences committed against her every day, and she's writing through the depths of her "otherness" to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage. Simultaneously looking into the mirror and out into the world, Reyes exposes the sensitive nerve-endings of life under patriarchy as a visible immigrant woman of color as she reaches towards her unflinching center.⁠