The magic beneath the dakit tree: a conversation with Trisha Matabalan
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The magic beneath the dakit tree: a conversation with Trisha Matabalan

Beneath the Dakit Tree, the real and the imagined refuse to be separated. Trisha Matabalan’s Under The Dakit Tree is a compilation of stories rooted in Bohol’s folklore, shaped by her childhood, and woven with quiet magic, where spirits like neighbors and myths feel like home. Let Trisha show you…

Love, Heartbreak, and Everything in Between: Christine Ann Sy’s Scribbles in My Notepad
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Love, Heartbreak, and Everything in Between: Christine Ann Sy’s Scribbles in My Notepad

Does love always come with hurt? Does disappointment always supersede joy? Must hope always risk heartbreak? Christine Ann Sy’s Scribbles In My Notepad is a raw and authentic poetry book imbued with a tang of cheekiness, reminiscent of how one would write in their—you guessed it—notepad. Inspired by her own…

The Art of Growing Up: When Kiddo Met Miss Independent
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The Art of Growing Up: When Kiddo Met Miss Independent

Growing up is rarely defined by a single milestone or life-changing moment. More often, it is shaped by the small decisions we make every day. In her newly released book, When Kiddo Met Miss Independent, Kiddo chronicles the quiet yet transformative journey of growing up, finding home, and embracing the…

Love Beyond Goodbye: MJ Orongan’s Diaries of the Departed
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Love Beyond Goodbye: MJ Orongan’s Diaries of the Departed

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…

All For Love: A Haunting Tale of Love, Obsession, and Desire
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All For Love: A Haunting Tale of Love, Obsession, and Desire

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…

The Courage to Keep Trying: Franz Sioson’s Why Read Me?
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The Courage to Keep Trying: Franz Sioson’s Why Read Me?

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…

Where Love Resides: Joanna Villamor’s Home is Here
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Where Love Resides: Joanna Villamor’s Home is Here

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…

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SILENCE OR TRUTH: Lucius Arrow Returns with The Boy Who Didn’t Cry, Wolf

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…

START YOUR HEALING SOMEWHERE WITH MS. L.A.’S IT’S TIME TO HEAL
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START YOUR HEALING SOMEWHERE WITH MS. L.A.’S IT’S TIME TO HEAL

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…