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• Quintessential Filipino Cooking

  75 Authentic and Classic Recipes of the Philippines

  Agbanlog, Liza,

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  A flavor-packed introduction to a vibrant cuisine sure to resonate with armchair travelers and curious home cooks of all skill levels.

• Flying Free

  My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

  Aragon, Cecilia Rodriguez

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  The story of how Cecilia Aragon broke free from expectations and rose above her own limits by combining her passion for flying with math and logic in unexpected ways.

• Halina Filipina

  a New Yorker in Manila

  Arre, Arnold

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  In a cross-cultural collision, a New Yorker discovers love among the locals! When Halina Mitchell makes her first trip to Manila, the eye-opening immersion in her homeland turns all her assumptions on their head. Halina Filipina is about finding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Uncle Rico's Encore

  Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle

  Bacho, Peter

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  In this collection of autobiographical essays, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Peter Bacho centers the experiences of the Pinoy generation that grew up in Seattle's multiethnic neighborhoods, from the Central Area to Beacon Hill to Rainier…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monsoon Mansion

  a Memoir

  Barnes, Cinelle

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  Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Malaya

  Essays on Freedom

  Barnes, Cinelle

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  Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Cinelle's intensely personal, yet universal, exploration of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Greatest of Marlys

  Barry, Lynda, 1956-

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  Eight-year-old Marlys Mullen is Lynda Barry's most famous character from her long-running and landmark comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, and for good reason! The Greatest Of Marlys spotlights Barry's masterful skill of chronicling childhood through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America Is in the Heart

  a Personal History

  Bulosan, Carlos

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  First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amboy

  Recipes From the Filipino-American Dream

  Cailan, Alvin

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  Cailan spent his youth feeling like he wasn't Filipino enough to be Filipino and not American enough to be an American. As an amboy, the term for a Filipino raised in America, he had to overcome cultural traditions and family expectations to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Heathens

  Chan, Marianne

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  Revisiting Magellan's voyage around the world, these poems explore the speaker's Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery.

• Filipinos in Puget Sound

  Cordova, Dorothy Laigo

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  Since the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. After World War II , communities grew with the arrival of new war brides,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Filipinx

  Heritage Recipes From the Diaspora

  Dimayuga, Angela

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  Filipinx offers 100 deeply personal recipes--many of them dishes that define home for Angela Dimayuga and the more than four million people of Filipino descent in the United States.

• Somewhere in the Middle

  a Journey to the Philippines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity

  Francisco Douglas, Deborah

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  Half Filipino but raised in an American household, Deborah Francisco Douglas had always longed to know more about her Filipino heritage. So when a thick government-issued envelope arrived at her door announcing her assignment to the Philippines as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was Their American Dream

  a Graphic Memoir

  Gharib, Malaka

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  The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs. This graphic memoir is both a coming-of-age story and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sightseer in This Killing City

  Gloria, Eugene

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  Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, who is a Filipina American woman with an ambiguous sexual identity, we are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with brutality and beauty.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mixed Plate

  Chronicles of An All-American Combo

  Koy, Jo

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  A laugh-out-loud, fearlessly honest memoir by the award-winning Filipino-American comedian uncovers the true family experiences behind his popular routines, discussing his mixed heritage, struggles with family mental illness and eventual embrace of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Growing Up Brown

  Memoirs of a Filipino American

  Jamero, Peter M.

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  Peter Jamero's story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the "bridge generation" -- the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. A longtime community activist and civic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dancing Between Bamboo Poles

  Poetry & Essays

  Mabanglo-Mayor, Rebecca

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  Like the traditional Tinikling dancers of the Philippines, whose feet flash between poles drumming against the ground, these poems and essays evoke the agility needed to move between history and personal experience, to negotiate conflicting cultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Indomitable Florence Finch

  the Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs

  Mrazek, Robert J.

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• The New Filipino Kitchen

  Stories and Recipes From Around the Globe

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  Documents the forgotten life of the Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and Filipina native who saved countless American lives during the Pacific War against Japan in the face of bigotry for her mixed-race heritage.