Salingkit

Salingkit PDF Author: Cyan Abad-Jugo
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712729508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Book Description
Kitty Eugenio’s life is far from ideal. She has to live with her relatives. Her mother has gone abroad. Her best friends sometimes act weird, and sometimes keep secrets from her. Her classmates persist in pairing her with a boy she doesn’t like, but who just might be able to help in the search for her father. The love of her life doesn’t know she exists. And it’s not just any ordinary year, it’s the year of the Tiger, the year of People Power, the year of Halley’s Comet, the year of upheaval and change.

Salingkit

Salingkit PDF Author: Cyan Abad-Jugo
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712729508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Book Description
Kitty Eugenio’s life is far from ideal. She has to live with her relatives. Her mother has gone abroad. Her best friends sometimes act weird, and sometimes keep secrets from her. Her classmates persist in pairing her with a boy she doesn’t like, but who just might be able to help in the search for her father. The love of her life doesn’t know she exists. And it’s not just any ordinary year, it’s the year of the Tiger, the year of People Power, the year of Halley’s Comet, the year of upheaval and change.

Leaf and Shadow

Leaf and Shadow PDF Author: Cyan Abad-Jugo
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712729281
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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Book Description
A collection of stories about some strange but essentially friendly creatures: a homesick anito stuck behind an old aparador; a musical rocking horse carved out of a very special block of wood; a poor kapre blamed by Old Manang for all the misdeeds in Lola’s house; and a shadow man who hosts parties in his shadow world.

Banana Heart Summer

Banana Heart Summer PDF Author: Merlinda Bobis
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742660703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
The myth of the banana heart inspires 12-year-old Nenita, growing up in a small, impoverished Filippino town. She will appease her family's hunger and win her violent mother’s affection. Touching, funny, elegaic, this is a truly original book that will remain in your mind, and in your senses, long after you read it.

Dwellers: A Novel

Dwellers: A Novel PDF Author: Eliza Victoria
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462923291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away. The rules are strict and absolute: Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit. Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again. Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever. But what happens when, in escaping your old life by stealing a new one, you jump out of the frying pan and into the fire? Cousins from a clan of "dwellers"--people who inhabit the bodies and lives of others--become brothers when they take over the bodies of Jonah and Louis. An injury forces them to remain in the brothers' house, where they discover that the basement holds a dead body! As old and new secrets come to light, it becomes clear that every action always has consequences. Fans of Richard Morgan, Adam Silvera, and Blake Crouch's speculative fiction will adore Eliza Victoria's action-packed supernatural mystery. Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, Dwellers is the urban fantasy novel that you won't want to miss! Winner of the prestigious Philippine National Book Award!

Letters From Crispin

Letters From Crispin PDF Author: Cyan Abad-Jugo
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 621420060X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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Book Description
When Alice sleeps over Lola-grandma’s house for Lola-grandma’s hundredth birthday, she receives a mysterious letter from a boy named Crispin, who claims to be a neighbor. But there is no one her age for miles around, except for a boy named Jason. Who is Crispin? What does he have to do with the haunted house across Calle Nuevo? And what connects the February Revolution to the hundred years before it?

Unequal Alliance

Unequal Alliance PDF Author: Robin Broad
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520909976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Book Description
In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

I Am Jake

I Am Jake PDF Author: Jake Zyrus
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9712735028
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
Charice Pempengco was poised to be the next big global pop star, the most powerful names in Hollywood staunchly behind her. But she bravely turned her back on the glittering lights of Hollywood for a bigger dream—to be himself in a world that tried its best to erase him from his own story. From his turbulent childhood to the dizzying heights of Hollywood, and the fall from grace to his rebirth, Jake Zyrus delves into it all and inspires with his story of becoming.

Enrique El Negro

Enrique El Negro PDF Author: Carla M. Pacis
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 971273627X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Book Description
In this book, the country’s premier novelist for young adults, trains her imaginative talent and narrative skill on Magellan and the Philippines. Backed by solid research and a wealth of detail, she improvises on the persistent possibility that it was a Filipino who first circumnavigated the globe. The boy, Enrique El Negro, is bought by Magellan from the slavery he was sold into by pirates who killed the rest of his family. With Magellan, he travels all over the world until Magellan’s death on the sands of Mactan.

Baaa

Baaa PDF Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054734676X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Book Description
After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as humans, and eventually disappear as well.

The Looking-Glass Tree

The Looking-Glass Tree PDF Author: Cyan Abad-Jugo
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 621420057X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
No one—not even his silly, overprotective aunt—can stop Enrico from turning his vacation into an adventure. But no one ever told him that an adventure also involved risk, remorse, resourcefulness, and responsibility. No one ever said he had to see through the eyes of a tree or a bird or a little girl before he could find his way, clear and deep, into the heart of all things.