Villanueva, Gail D.
Summary: In one week Sabrina will be eleven-years-old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Ate 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 Ate Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Ate Nadine is working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VILLee, Sophia N.
Summary: After recently moving to the United States, a young girl reminisces about her time spent helping her Lolo run his sari-sari store in the Philippines, and uses some of his wisdom to make herself feel more at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEECruz, Marie Miranda
Summary: After the loss of her father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila's North Cemetery but then her mother disappears, sending Nora on a dangerous quest to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Starscape]/Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CRUHooper, Elise
Summary: Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately--victory. The Philippines, 1941: when the Japanese Imperial Army invades, American Army nurse Tess Abbott and her band of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOBrotherton, Marcus
Summary: "Inspired by a true story, three best friends from Mobile, Alabama are captured in the Philippines during WWII--they vow to return home together. They struggle to survive against impossible odds in an ordeal that becomes known as the Bataan Death March"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BrothertonArre, Arnold
Summary: It's been two decades since the former classmates first met, and the ensuing years have brought their share of changes. Kubin's strength is weakening with each passing day; Lane's telepathy is gone; Rey and Misha are nowhere to be found; and the bonds that once held them together are slowly crumbling under their misfortune. Thrown into the mix is Nicole and Kubin's daughter, Marilag, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ARREverman, Cookie Hiponia
Summary: Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EVERibay, Randy
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Ribay 2019Guerrero, Tanya
Summary: Moving to the Philippines with his zoologist mother, twelve-year-old Pablo struggles with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUEBontigao, Lynnor
Summary: "Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with everything you could need, from hair accessories to toys, creamy yema to sour tamarind candy. And this year, Nora is big enough to help her grandmother. But when a heat wave strikes and no one comes to the store, Nora worries that she won't get to spend the rest of the summer with her lola -- until she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATBrainard, Cecilia Manguerra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: A novel following the struggles of fighting men in the Philippines, Budapest, Washington, and Cairo in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRILawhon, Ariel
Summary: The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war, they are caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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Summary: "New country, new school, new friends. A lot can happen in a single year. But one thing's for certain: Maribel won't forget her Papa, even when he's 8,000 miles away in the Philippines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEHolthe, Tess Uriza.
Summary: In the final weeks of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, three different Filipino narrators recount the experiences of a people desperately struggling in the midst of the horrors of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLCoyle, Harold
Summary: Frustrated that his unit is pursuing a goal that has nothing to do with their mission, soldier Nathan Dixon encounters political resistance while working to undermine a terrorist who would unite various Islamic factions in order to maximize American casualties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYCoyle, Harold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge,dc2008. 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MYS COYApostol, Gina
Summary: Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APOCussler, Dirk
Summary: "Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCoyiuto, Mae
Summary: "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 aunt wasn't making such a big production out of it. To make matters worse, her father, intent on finding Chloe the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COYMarcelo, Tif
Summary: "Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny's death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her free-spirited mother moves in with her. But when she makes a medical decision that disparages the hospital, she is forced to go on a short sabbatical. Never one to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARWestall, Jennifer H.
Summary: "Through years of poverty, racial tension, and legal battles, Ruby Graves has suffered the worst the Great Depression could throw at her. But an enemy she couldńђةt possibly imagine awaits just over the horizon. After she and her brother, Henry, escape to the tropical paradise of the Philippine Islands, Ruby volunteers as a nurse at a medical clinic in Manila. Although surrounded by beauty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jennifer H. Westall 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WesRobbins, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009