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Scientist and daughter’s ‘love letter’ on climate change
An environmental scientist and her 10-year-old daughter have written a book about climate change through the eyes of two kid whales who are about to lose their homes. “Sparky and Benny’s Big Home Mystery” is a personal story for children, parents and educators to understand what climate change is all about, said authors Janice Lao-Noche […]
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Ret. Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jr.: PHL diplomats are mostly ‘kind’ people
By Cristina DC Pastor Former Philippine Ambassador to Italy Virgilio Reyes Jr. said Filipino diplomats are mostly “kind” people and if there are “cruel” ones, they would be the exception. The FilAm sought comments from Reyes, who served in the foreign service for 35 years, on the case of Ambassador to Brazil Marichu Mauro. She […]
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The ‘aswangs’ of Portland: Fantasy novel not political satire
When Marcella Leones relocates her family of aswang vampires from the Philippines to Portland, Oregon, she raises her grandchildren under strict rules so humans will not expose them. Her only wish is to give them a peaceful life, far away from the hunters and the Filipino government that attempted to exterminate them. Before she dies, […]
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Disney to create Melissa de la Cruz Studio to develop original stories
Disney is partnering with Filipino American author Melissa de la Cruz to create a new studio to develop and create stories, according to an announcement published in Hollywood Reporter. The Melissa de la Cruz Studio will work with new and established authors to create original content for development across multiple Disney platforms, it said. De […]
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The world of Donald Trump, according to his niece
Much of what the world has seen of Donald Trump’s behavior is now being understood by way of a tell-all memoir written by his niece Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist. “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” portrays the American president as a psychologically impaired individual who craved parental […]
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Kai Hayes publishes her leadership, personal, and spiritual ‘growth book’
As a young girl, Lilibeth Salonga Avelino already knew what she wanted. Coming from a family of modest means, she yearned to get a good education so she could achieve bigger things and provide a comfortable life for herself and her family. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent, and her father was in the military scraping […]
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Post-war romance between a journalist and a soldier depicted in new book
By Allen Gaborro It is at distressing times that people look to some diversion to enable them to temporarily forget what’s going on in the mad, mad world around them. Myrna Lou Jastra, a pseudonym for Filipino American writer Ludy Ongkeko, has provided just such a diversion with her paperback novel “When Writing Morphs into […]
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Author Roselle Lim gives voice to the Filipino-Chinese
By Lynn Alejandrino-Topel Aspiring Filipino authors take inspiration and hope in the number of published works by writers of Asian descent. One such author is Roselle Lim. Her first book entitled “Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune” has spawned a second book in the same universe called “Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop” which […]
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Poet explores the tercets in new Haiku book
By Neil Leadbeater The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019 by Eileen R. Tabios Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2019 Consider the power of three. Throughout history, successful leaders have recognised its effectiveness and made good use of it in their writing and in their speeches. This is because having three entities can combine […]