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In memoir, single mother struggles with her Faith to come to America
The memoir, “A Mother’s Will,” was written by author and filmmaker Fortes Lopez in honor of her mother Imelda, a single mother determined to give her son a better life. “My mother sold cooked food to the U.S. military on their way to Clark Air Base. She aspired to cross over herself someday to the […]
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Roxanne San Jose’s young adult novel on time travel is out now
Angelie Thompson is a time machine inventor. When her boyfriend accidentally travels back in 1970, she searches for him and meets a slew of odd characters. Twists happen along the way and lead her to change the world. “The story highlights love, dedication and friendship with a lot of excitement,” said author Roxanne San Jose, […]
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Grace Talusan shares her immigrant story that began with a green station wagon
Boston-area resident Grace Talusan is in the spotlight this June as Stories from the Stage — the WORLD Channel series that features ordinary people telling extraordinary stories — airs a national 24-hour binge-a-thon of episodes this month. Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the […]
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Jun Policarpio: Portrait of a whistleblower
By Cristina DC Pastor Society is generally distrustful of whistleblowers. Maybe because some are seen as motivated by monetary rewards or as persons who are not team players. Gonzalo ‘Jun’ Policarpio Jr. writes in his book how circumstances in his life turned him into a “whistleblower and a boat rocker,” and how he is proud […]
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My Filipino-American breakfast
By Jose Padua My Filipino-American breakfast of the ‘60s was the local Briggs brand pork sausage patties, sunny-side up eggs, and rice, with the runny yolks broken over the rice, and the rice and yolk and sometimes the eggs whites, too, mixed, stirred, or just turned yolk top over rice bottom depending on if my […]
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A book about grandparents and the grandchildren who love them
By Cristina DC Pastor “Si Lola Apura at si Lolo Un Momento” is the latest storybook by children’s author Iris Sheila Crisostomo-Lopez. It is a delightful story about the way families and society perceive the elderly. “It is not your typical story for children because the characters are two elderlies, which makes you ask: What […]
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Author shadows immigrant Filipino family from Manila to Texas
In a work that gives new meaning to immersion journalism, Jason DeParle, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and veteran New York Times reporter, has spent a remarkable three decades following an extended family of Filipino immigrants, from the slums of Manila to the suburbs of Houston. Through their multigenerational saga, he tells in his latest […]
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Bloomfield boy, 6, does book signing at Barnes & Noble
By Cristina DC Pastor A 6-year-old student at Watsessing School in Bloomfield, N.J. has published a book and signed copies at a Barnes & Noble book store in nearby Clifton on April 28. “I Am Jan Alexander” was written by Jan Quintos, the youngest of three children by Alex and Ethel Quintos. The book has […]
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Journalist Josie Moralidad Ziman publishes a book of inspiring FilAm profiles
Journalist Josie Moralidad Ziman launched her book “The Filipino American Journey: Stories of Survival and Success” at the Philippine Embassy Chancery Annex on April 6. The book is a collection of inspirational stories that highlight the resiliency, determination, hard work, values, and faith of the Filipino people, said Ziman in a press statement. “What ‘The […]