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Iloilo City Cookbook to showcase the best cuisine of a UNESCO City of Gastronomy
The Iloilo City Government is collaborating with partners to create the "Iloilo City Cookbook," a showcase of the city's culinary scene. The book will feature recipes, stories, and phot…
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Aklatang Bayan online: free Filipino eBooks from UP SWF
Photo from UP SWF Facebook The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) of the University of the Philippines Diliman has recently launched Aklatang Bayan Online, a free online repository of 16 Filipino book…
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Free eBooks from National Museum PH
The National Museum of the Philippines has seven titles available for free from their website. These books are digitized in PDF format and can be downloaded. Here are the following titles with links …
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Free: COVID-19 Dictionary for Filipino Children
Here is a free reference source on COVID-19 made possible by the Reading, Early Grades, Art and Language Education (REGALE) cluster of the UP College of Education: COVID-19 Dictionary for Filipino C…
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Free coloring book! Kurit Iloilo: A Visual Story Art Book
Get Kurit Iloilo: A Visual Story Art Book for free download. This is a coloring book published online by Kasingkasing Press and the Fine Arts Major Organization of the University of San Agustin, Ilo…
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Free poetry samplers and comic from Gacha Press
Gacha Press, a local indie poetry publisher, has five poetry samplers and a comic for free download. The .zip download file contains PDF files of the following: Guerra Cantos by Carlos Piocos III Pa…
Filipino books
Filipino Artists collab for an eBook to help frontliners
For 350 pesos, you can get this beautiful eBook and also help our frontliners who are working amidst COVID-19. Firt there were rocks, then there was the world: a book for our times, for our front…
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Filipino indie publisher Balangiga Press is giving away these books for free
Photo from Balangiga Press Balangiga Press: Critical Discourses on Narratives, Nationalism, and Liberation Movements and Ideologies Balangiga Press Manila is an independent publisher that st…
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Covibook - free children's eBook on COVID-19 released
#COVIBOOK: Supporting and reassuring children around the world In the light of recent events regarding COVID-19, it's understandable that people in the world today are having feelings of fea…
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Panaysayon: Tales from Panay Island by Christian George Acevedo [book review]
Panaysayon: Tales from Panay Island by Christian George Acevedo, edited by Hazel Joaquin. Published through a grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Intramuros, Manila. ©2019 …
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Ilongga Artist Nelfa Querubin launches book: 'The Winding Road to Change'
The Artist's works on the 4th floor, Henry Luce III Library of CPU Renowned ceramic artist Nelfa Querubin-Tompkins launched her latest book, The Winding Road to Change: a memoir , last Febru…
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New book of Kinaray-a poetry by Jose Edison Tondares launched
Mga Laragway halin sa Paraiso ("Photographs from Paradise") is Jose Edison Tondares’s collection of Kinaray-a poetry with translations to English. Published by the Kasingkasing Press,…
Malditang Librarian has been blogging about books, librarianship, and Iloilo City since 2016. I am a member of Iloilo Bloggers Society and I write for IBS Digital Network.
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