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The Twisted Menance : Book IVJessica Zafra

Jessica Zafra writes a column in Today, hosts a Sunday afternoon talk show and is one of the hosts of Points of View. She can write longhand backwards, terrify humans without even trying, and remember things you forgot that you told her years ago. She cannot cook, swim, or ride a bicycle. She writes humorous stories.

Twisted FlicksJessica Zafra

Twisted Flicks

by Jessica Zafra

This is another humorous book by Jessica Zafra - one of the best known writers of funny stories in the Philippines.

The Best of Youngblood

State of War

The Best Philippine Short Stories Of The Twentieth Century

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)

EL FILIBUSTERISMO: FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.

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)

The Gangster of Love

by Jessica Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

An elegant and smart novel by the author of Dogeaters which captures the pain of leaving one country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one, The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family from the Philippines, who have come to the United States to make a new life.

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

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)

Youngblood 2.0

Sleepless in Manila: Funny Essays, etc., on Insomnia by Insomniacs

Sleepless in Manila: Funny Essays, etc., on Insomnia by Insomniacs

In this delightful compendium on insomnia, 38 fine Filipino writers -- mostly young, many of them award-winning, a few writing from Montreal, San Francisco, Paris and Singapore, and all insomniacs -- describe their struggles with this affliction in hilarious essays, poems and stories. They also divulge the countless remedies for sleep disorders that they have tried, or simply imagined, with wildly different... (more)

The woman who had two navels (Filipino literary classics)Nick Joaquin

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Twisted 6

The Twisted Menance : Book IV

by Jessica Zafra

Twisted Flicks

by Jessica Zafra

The Best of Youngblood

State of War

The Best Philippine Short Stories Of The Twentieth Century

EL FILIBUSTERISMO: FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.

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

The Gangster of Love

by Jessica Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

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

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

Youngblood 2.0

Sleepless in Manila: Funny Essays, etc., on Insomnia by Insomniacs

The woman who had two navels (Filipino literary classics)

by Nick Joaquin