Healing takes many forms, but it often begins with heartbreak, rejection, and the ache of unspoken emotions. Diaries of the Departed by MJ Orongan offers an emotional journey through prose and poetry, tracing the path from first encounters and longing to heartbreak, healing, faith, and personal transformation. MJ Orongan began…
How far would you go for love? Where does admiration end and obsession begin? In All For Love, Laura Nakpil explores these unsettling questions through a haunting story of devotion, desire, and the moral boundaries people are willing to cross in pursuit of what they want most. All For Love…
Surviving is only the beginning of relearning how to live. Why Read Me? by Franz Sioson is a memoir that weaves together personal stories, reflections, and moments of uncertainty into a moving narrative of survival, identity, and vulnerability. Educator and writer Franz Sioson brings his signature wit and candor to…
History has often been written from the perspective of conquerors, leaving Indigenous peoples confined to the margins of the very narratives that shaped their lives. In Colonial Images of the Subano Nation, scholar, ethnographer, and author Dr. Wendell Glenn P. Cagape challenges that legacy by returning to colonial archives with…
Are we searching for love in the wrong places? Joanna Villamor’s Home Is Here takes the readers on a journey of realization where love truly resides. Anchored on themes of family, friendship, and belonging, Joanna deconstructs long-established grand notions of love. Through lines and verses, the collection reveals that love…
In the Philippines today, too many children are growing up without books. Recent national assessments show that literacy levels remain alarmingly low, with many young learners struggling to read at the expected grade level. Behind every statistic is a child who wants to learn but lacks the tools — a…
Yang Li’s Blood Moon Fever is a novel built on dualities—light and shadow, tenderness and brutality, safety and danger, the façade and the truth beneath it. Set in Taipei, a city the author describes as “vibrant by day and unsettling by night,” the book uses its urban landscape not merely…
Language is a reflection of its people; it’s an identity— spoken and expressed. Despite the Philippines being home to more than 180 languages and dialects, many remained uninvestigated, posing a crucial risk of their disappearance. This issue is what Dr. Reluya-Laput is addressing in her book, “An Investigation of Boholano…
To survive in silence or to risk everything for truth— this is the question that Lucius Arrow explores in his newly published book, The Boy Who Didn’t Cry, Wolf. Nash Magat, the protagonist first introduced in Silence the Prier, is plagued by guilt over his father’s death. Believing that keeping…
After struggling writing this book for many years, trauma therapist and nurse–Ms. L.A. proudly announces It’s Time To Heal has come to life. Ms. L.A. always believed that life has to mean something; that we’re meant to create something that matters. In her early 20s, the idea of writing a…
