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In this standalone novel based on Filipino mythology, Corazon Lopez is looking forward to her eleventh birthday, when she can finally be trained in wielding babaylan magic. She's hoping she can use it to bring her parents back to life so they can be together again.

Learn Conversational Tagalog (Filipino) Vol. 2 is an audio course for beginners or for anyone who struggles with becoming fluent in Tagalog. The focus of this course is to practice speaking conversational Tagalog from the very first lesson. Each lesson contains useful everyday phrases related to a specific topic.

Had some experience in Filipino? Up the challenge with Beginner Filipino. Master the basics of Filipino conversation! Start speaking Filipino in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Beginner Filipino. Our native Filipino hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way!

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

The Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila. Outside the safety of their little refuge the war rages on—fiery bombs torch the beautiful Filipino countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerillas wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war, only emerging to look for food, water, and medicine.

God's people are meant to be a blessing to others. Yet in the Scriptures, throughout history, and in our own times we too often see the people of God causing harm to people on the margins. Rather than caring for the widowed and the orphaned or loving the sojourner, too often we see abuse of power that breaks spirits and inflicts lasting harm. For anyone who has felt left out or pushed out of the church, Othered is your invitation to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, restores, and blesses the outcast and the marginalized.

Filipino Culture Class. What vocabulary do I need to know to have a conversation with Filipino-speaking locals? What are the five most popular sweets in the Philippines? What are the most important cultural holidays? Get the answer to these, and much, much, more with Filipino Culture Class.

The course consists of lessons centered on an audio blog that is completely in Filipino. These audio blogs take you around the Philippines and introduce you to many different aspects of this country, including culture, history, folklore, arts, and more. These blogs will also teach you all about many different cities, and what they are famous for. Along the way, you'll pick up sophisticated expressions and advanced grammar in this Audio Blog series presented entirely in Filipino.

Do you want to learn about Filipino culture, holidays, and traditions? And do you want to learn a bit of Filipino along the way? Then this is the audiobook for you. Learn Filipino: The Master Guide to Filipino Holidays for Beginners is designed for learners of all levels and anyone interested in Filipino culture.

Should you meet up with a Thai or Filipina ladyboy? Loads of guys get stuck choosing which is best for them, which is why I've put together this guide showing all their differences (as well as some similarities)! I've been in Bangkok for 10 years and have dated ladyboys from Thailand and the Philippines and know the differences you can expect. I share all here, the good and bad, to help you decide which nationality is better suited to you.

How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America - haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents - she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter - the first American-born daughter in the family - can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands.

After a harrowing flight, Queenie, her younger brother, and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the United States from the Philippines. They’re here to finally reunite with Queenie’s Filipina mother, who has been working as a nurse in Brooklyn for the past few years—building a life that everyone hopes will set them up for better prospects. But her mother is not the same woman she was in the Philippines: Something in her face is different, almost hardened, and she seems so American already.

If Crazy Rich Asians and a Greek tragedy had a literary offspring, it would be the spitting image of Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? The true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? begins with Loida's adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier Reginald Lewis follows, as does regal living in Manhattan and Paris, and gut-wrenching loss, all before Loida shockingly commandeers a multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate and leads it with aplomb.

Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys, no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them that they were perpetually shouting across, one that she longed to close. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn’t say.

Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish-American War of the late 1890s.

If you want to learn some exquisite recipes of Filipino dishes, then check this How to Cook Filipino Food guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will discover recipes that are surely mouthwatering and inviting to eat.

Narra Jal is one of the cursed, cast aside her whole life, considered unlucky. But with her mother's life on the line, she will return to the city where she was born to face the trials: a grueling, bloodthirsty series of challenges designed to weed out the weak, the greedy, and the foolish. Trials to select the next ruler of Tigang. Narra has nothing. No weapons. No training. No magic. No real chance of leaving with her life. Just her fierce grit and a refusal to accept the destiny she's been handed.

December 8, 1941, marked the start of the full-scale invasion of the Philippines. With the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula and the fortified island, Corregidor, in the spring of 1942, all hope seemed lost. But, almost overnight, the Philippine underground resistance began to take shape. Units made up of guerrilla volunteers from all walks of life participated in the liberation of the Philippines.

Not only will you understand practical conversations, but you'll also be able to use the same phrases. Learn Filipino Bundle - Filipino for Beginners (Level 2) focuses on everyday Filipino—the kind that you yourself will use in the Philippines.

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