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Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In 1936, an elderly doctor travels to Lisbon to find the love of his life. He is Dr. Salvador Carriscant of Los Angeles, who as a young man worked in the Philippines when it was a U.S. colony. Tired of his wife, he developed a liaison with the wife of an American officer, quelling a rebellion, and the two planned to flee abroad to start life anew. While she succeeded, he failed and for 30 years they have not seen each other. By the author of A Good...
Author
Series
Artie Wu and Quincy Durant novels volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
9) Killing rain
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila with the aide of his new partner, Dox, whose good-ol'-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: By using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain's conscience causes him to botch an assignment, he finds that he's the Mossad's next target....
13) Philippines
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Describes how the culture of the Philippines is reflected in its many festivals and celebrations, including Ati-Atihan, Moriones, and Christmas.
14) Philippines
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Philippines is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise past the secluded beaches, pristine lagoons and rocky islets of the Bacuit Archipelago, join the adrenaline junkies wakeboarding, surfing, climbing and snorkelling on the Bicol peninsula, and choose which stretch of pearly white sand on which to escape the crowds; all with your trusted travel companion....
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In one week Sabrina will be eleven-years-old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Nadine together for the celebration, especially since the black butterfly landing on her locket has convinced her that she is going to die; Sabrina and her friend Pepper come up with a bucket list, and enlist Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Nadine is working on a story about the Philippines' war on drugs, and she has uncovered...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Chinese-Filipina Chloe's father sets her up on a marathon of arranged dates in hopes of convincing her to stay close to their Manila home for college.
"When Chloe Liang is officially off the wait list for USC, she's one step closer to realizing her dream of becoming an animator in the United States. Her auntie insists on planning a traditional debut for Chloe's eighteenth birthday, and it would be the perfect send-off-- if her...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
"Set in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. The Karangalan fmaily and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila."--Jacket.
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