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The first book, Filipino Tattoos: Ancient to Modern explains the history, spiritual importance, and mythology associated with the ancient tattooing...

Filipinos are a community nearly 2.5-million strong in the United States in 2007. At the turn of the 20th century, the first wave of Filipino migr...

Nearly one in four persons in Hawai‘i is of Filipino heritage. Representing one-fifth of the state's workforce, Filipinos have been in Hawai‘i for...

The memoirs of Filipinos in Hollywood span more than 80 years, dating back to the early 1920s when the first wave of immigrants, who were mostly m...

Tens of thousands of Filipinos who have lived, worked, and raised families for over five generations in this unique city stake their rightful clai...

The first Filipino settlers arrived in Stockton, California, around 1898, and through most of the 20th century, this city was home to the largest ...

Filipinos came to Vallejo as early as 1912, and some families here can count five generations back to their roots in the Philippines. Many came to...

In her debut cookbook, acclaimed chef Angela Dimayuga shares her passion for Filipino food with home cooks. Filipinx offers 100 deeply persona...

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. San Francisco Arts Commision award-winning poet Tony Robles focuses on a hunger strike held in April an...

FIRST AROUND THE GLOBE: The Story of Enrique Written by: Reni Roxas and Marc SingerIllustrated by: Arnel Mirasol 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Nominat...

Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, ...

Followers of the Seasons is a collection of the life's work of renown Pilipino American writer Oscar Peñaranda. It is divided into five suites that...

In this fierce, feisty, anaphora-filled shakedown serenade, Reyes hard-scrambles our senses to position us firmly in poetry meant to electro-charg...

Ambitious and emotionally complex, Michelle Peñaloza's debut poetry collection, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, explores grief and viole...

In this thrilling and hilarious middle grade adventure, a young Filipino-American boy must team up with his ancestor to break the curse that’s hau...

What does it mean to "come home" for the first time? Here is a story that tenderly captures the incomparable joy of the balikbayan experience. Amy ...

The riveting life stories of our Philippine heroes can inspire children, students, and the next generation of community leaders. Share your love of...

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Winner of the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize and 2018 American Book Award. In many ways Rachelle Cruz, here, contests, demolishes and remixes the bi...

See what critics called “sharp, irreverent, and sometimes deadly serious comedy” (San Francisco Bay Guardian); “slapstick comedy that exp...

Autumn is in full swing for the town of Shady Palms—the perfect time for warm drinks, cozy cardigans, and…dead bodies?The annual Shady Palms Corn F...

Kuwento ni Virgilio S. AlmarioGuhit ni Beth Parrocha Madalas mapanaginipan ni Sula na nag-aaral siya kasama ang ibang batang T'boli. Dahil dito, n...

When two cultures collide, the results are explosive--a graphic novel rom-com like no other!Halina Mitchell is half-Filipino, half-American. She's...

A Prehistory of the Philippines - BOOK 1 Who doesn't love a good story? That's what HIS-story means - the story of us! Our prehistoric lolos and l...

The journey home can be full of adventure and self-discovery. This is a lovely, evocative collection. It will resonate with readers in the Philip...

In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports f...

The stories in Her Wild American Self focus on Filipina Americans—recent immigrants or first generation—and explore what it is to be American and ...

A young girl in the Philippines uses music to connect with her grandmother as her memory fades in this warm and moving picture book perfect for fa...

Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie’s Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Mana...

Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults Perhaps the first of its kind released in the Philippines, Horror: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults was ...

As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of ...

In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can...

How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of di...

From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account, with an introduc...

Would you like to know a little bit more about the Philippine Islands? Well this activity book has over 60 pages dedicated to the history and cultu...

'Human Wrongs' starts out with a quotation from Nelson Mandela, himself imprisoned for many years: 'It is said that no one truly knows a nation unt...

Filipino food is having its moment. Sour, sweet, funky, fatty, bright, rich, tangy, bold—no wonder adventurous eaters consider Filipino food the ne...

Ilocano is spoken in the northern Luzon region of the Philippines, and is sometimes called the national language of the north. It is spoken by abou...

Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writi...

The history of Intramuros, the old city of Manila, comes alive for young people in this ground-breaking book. INTRAMUROS: The Walled City is a pape...

Isa, Dalawa, Tatlo...Ito Ay Obalo! introduces numbers and shapes in Filipino.Children typically have no difficulty learning English and adapting to...

“A delightful book for toddlers learning to count and play simple games.”  –Nina Lim-Yuson, Executive Director, Museo Pambata Foundation “Our very ...

A middle-school girl discovers a connection between her home in the Philippines and her new home in the U.S. through a special garden in “this s...