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  Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) (Penguin Classics)

  by Harold Augenbraum, Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin, Raul L. Locsin, Jose? Rizal

  In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding... (more)
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  ABNKKBSNPLaKo?!

  by Bob Ong

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  Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas

  by Bob Ong

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  Stainless Longganisa

  by Bob Ong

• Bata, bata--paano ka ginawa?: The screenplayLualhati Bautista

  

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  Bata, bata--paano ka ginawa?: The screenplay

  by Lualhati Bautista

  Text: Tagalog
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  America Is in the Heart : A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68)

  by Carlos Bulosan

  First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. Bulosan does not spare the reader any of the horrors that accompanied the migrant's life; but his quiet, stoic voice is the most convincing witness to those terrible... (more)
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  Contracting Colonialism : Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule

  by Vicente L. Rafael

  In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580–1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing this history of communication between Spaniards and Tagalogs, Rafael maps the conditions that made possible both the... (more)
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  The History Of The Burgis

  Burgis ka ba? The answer we got to this straightforward question) except for one incorrigible subject) were all hot denialsproof that in todays popular usage burgis is decidedly a bad word. The burgis, many seem to feel are to blame for the mess we find ourselves in today. Is their destiny really to be the villains of Philippine history?We think not. This book was written by burgis for the burgis, in the... (more)
• The woman who had two navels (Filipino literary classics)Nick Joaquin

  

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  The woman who had two navels (Filipino literary classics)

  by Nick Joaquin

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  Twisted 6

• Smaller and Smaller CirclesF. H. Batacan

  

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  Smaller and Smaller Circles

  by F. H. Batacan

  This is a Filipino detective novel.
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  EL FILIBUSTERISMO: FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.

  by Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin, Raul L. Locsin, Jose? Rizal

  "El Filibusterismo" ("The Subversive") is the second novel by Jose Rizal (1861-1896), national hero of the Philippines. Like its predecessor, the better-known "Noli Me Tangere", the "Fili" was written in Castilian while Rizal was traveling and studying in Europe. It was published in Ghent in 1891 and later translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A nationalist novel... (more)
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  Eating Fire and Drinking Water

  by Arlene J. Chai

  "I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . ." Clara Perez is a reporter on a small South seas island. An orphan raised by nuns, she is a young woman with origins shrouded in mystery. Full of idealistic ambition, she grows tired of the trivial... (more)
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  When the Elephants Dance

  by Tess Uriza Holthe

  In the waning days of World War II, the Filipino people were caught between a brutal Japanese occupation and battling U.S. forces. In this compelling, incandescent novel, thirteen-year-old Alejandro Karangalan, his spirited older sister Isabelle, and Domingo, a passionate guerilla commander, narrate the story of the Karangalans-a family who huddle with their neighbors in the cellar of a house near Manila to wait... (more)
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  The Best Philippine Short Stories Of The Twentieth Century

  The modern form of the short story is magnificently showcased in this anthology of fifty selections in English written by Filipinos in the last century. Edited by literary critic Isagani R. Cruz, this collection spans from 1925 to 1998. In this book readers will meet both famous and unfamiliar writers in both conventional and unexpected renditions of the genre. Although many of the stories are acknowledged... (more)
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  Dark Blue Suit: And Other Stories

  by Peter Bacho

  Twelve powerful stories by award-winning novelist Peter Bacho. Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, Dark Blue Suit depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories--their landmarks, activities, settings, and events--are grounded in historical fact.
• Womenagerie and other tales from the frontJessica Zafra

  

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  Womenagerie and other tales from the front

  by Jessica Zafra

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  One Hundred Demons

  by Lynda Barry

  One Hundred Demons collects a series of memoiristic strips that appeared in Salon’s popular "Mothers Who Think" section. Here are 20 stories told in Lynda Barry’s distinctive cartoon-narrative style that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race and the 'hood, identity — all the forces that made her the "wreck" she is today. Barry distinguishes these stories with her pitch-perfect... (more)
• Po-on: A novelF. Sionil Jose

  

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  Po-on: A novel

  by F. Sionil Jose

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  Salamanca

  by Dean Francis Alfar

  "Dean Alfar's spirited first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious feats of writing and wandering, and Palawena beauty Jacinta Gordova, whose perfection transmutes walls into glass... (more)