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Biography of an Irish Columban missionary who arrived in Mindanao in 1938. He stayed on for two generations, and was in the thick of World War II. He did not surrender to the Japanese but hid in the hill , with his parishioners joining the…

Nobes was recruited as an Episcopalian missionary in the US in 1931, and his experiences as a priest and educator in the mountains of Northern Luzon, based in Sagada, working with the Igorots.

The title is the name the Igorots called Nobes,…

This book tells the saga of Wolfe Ismond, a British national born into a Jewish family but raised in Shanghai. He gave up a good job in Shanghai for a farming career in Canada, but was unsuccessful. He returned to Shanghai and led a colorful career…

Autobiography of Sofia Dimitriades Adamson, an American of Greek origins, who moved around the U.S. with her family and wound up in Manila, where she met a Greek citizen, George Athos Adamson, visiting from the Philippines.

Adamson had helped his…

A non-fiction family “biography” spanning a quarter of a century, from 1926-1950.

The family is that of the author, the Santos-Cuyugan family: her father was a medical doctor, assigned to Lucena, Tayabas (now Quezon) province in 1926. She…

Personal memoir of a nationalistic Filipino journalist and feminist, focusing on her growing-up years in Ermita before the war. Intensely personal and detailed, she brings pre-war days to life and shows how people lived in those years.

She has…

Autobiography of the wife of Benito Soliven, congressman from the Ilocos. She was the mother of ten children (the eldest, Maximo “Max” Soliven, became a noted journalist).

Mrs. Soliven’s husband volunteered for the Philippine Army and became a…

Revolving around the life and times of Jose Cojuangco, Sr. (father of president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino), this coffee-table book is also a history of the Cojuangco family and the times they lived in – from its Chinese roots to arrival and settlement…

Personal memoir by the first Filipina to acknowledge that she was a “comfort woman” – a sexual slave of the Japanese Imperial Army.

While the nightmarish experiences of Korean women had been exposed earlier, no Filipina woman came forward to…

Norman Reyes was a mestizo born of a Filipino father and American mother who is better known as a radio broadcaster who read the “Bataan has Fallen” spiel on April 9, 1942.

In this autobiography, he talks about how his parents met and married,…