Author: rosecruzchurma

Title: ANGELA MANALANG GLORIA

Angela Manalang Gloria (b. 1907) is the matriarch of Filipino women poets writing in the English language. Who is the woman whose voice is heard in her poems? What was it like to have been among the first generation of Filipinos aspiring to write a national literature in a foreign tongue? What did it take to be a female writer competing in the male-dominated arena of Philippine letters? How did she balance the claims of art against those of family?

Price: $20.00

Author: Edna Zapanta Manlapaz

Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, 1993, p.176

Title: LIVES AT THE MARGIN: BIOGRAPHY OF FILIPINOS OBSCURE, ORDINARY, AND HEROIC

Instead of focusing on national heroes, this volume follows an unexplored path by studying the lives of Filipinos ordinary an obscure. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, this volume’s authors treat the men and women who emerged from the margins of Philippine society to mobilize a mass following. Some may have been predators or opportunists. A few mixed cunning and violence with charisma and courage. But most acted as self-conscious agents of change who led their constituents in a struggle for social justice. Almost all failed, ending their careers marginalized, impoverished, or imprisoned.

Price: $20.00

Author: Alfredo W. McCoy

Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, 2000, p.481

Title: MY DAUGHTER CECILE

The great Filipina pianist’s biography written by her mother and mentor, Rosario. It chronicles 20 years of the gradual rise to world fame of the phenomenal virtuoso pianist.

Price: $13.00

Author: Rosario B. Licad

Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1994, p.199

Title: LA OROSA

The biography of the woman who founded the acclaimed Filipinescas Dance Company. The Filipino choreographer melded balletic, interpretive, native and Oriental dance styles and the discipline of Western art dance with Filipino ethnic dance.

Price: $17.00

Author: Nick Joaquin

Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1994, p.200

Title: THE GALLANT FILIPINO

With this book, Senator Tino Guingona reinforces a sadly neglected area of Philippine life: the cult of heroes. He takes the life of different Filipinos, from different levels, interests and time frames, and holds them up as role models for a new generation.

Price: $14.00

Author: Tito Guingona

Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1993, p.221

Title: THE GUERREROS OF ERMITA

The author wrote this book to show the accomplishments of his relatives, but not to take them seriously. He describes an imaginary family coat-of-arms: an all-white background with three words splashed across it – Nada, Nothing, Walang-wala.

Price: $9.50

Author: Wildfredo Maria Guerrero

New Day Publishers, Quezon City, 1988, p.145

Title: THE LAVAS: A Filipino Family

The Lavas succeeded in giving the educated Filipino middle class another option besides the blind acceptance of the status quo.

Price: $15.50

Author: Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr.

Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1999, p.169

Title: BATAAN: Death March Capas

The author was drafted and inducted into the United States Armed Forces in the Far East, fought in Bataan, and survived the Death March. ” … found himself and his Filipino comrades completely ignored after the war …”

Price: $11.95

Author: Corban K. Alabado

Sulu Books, San Francisco, 1995.

Title: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER

A family biography written with the historical background of the Commonwealth government under the United States and the WWII Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.

Price: $12.95

Author: Alabado, Ceres S.C

Sulu Books, San Francisco, 1995, p.182