Philippine American Literary House

PHILIPPINES BOOKS

PALH also known as Philippine American Literary House

has been a mail order bookseller of Philippine and Philippine American books since 1995. All books in our U.S. location are selected carefully and are appropriate for libraries, collectors, educators, as well as the general reading public. Many of our books are one-of-a-kind.

In 2003, PALH released it's first book publication, Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults, an impressive collection of 29 stories by the same number of emerging and award-winning Filipino and Filipino-American authors.

PALH's beginnings connect with PAWWA (Philippine American Women Writers and Artists), an award-winning group that supported other Filipina writers and artists and provided community service. PAWWA recognized the lack of Filipino and Filipino American books in the United States and encouraged PAWWA co-founders Cecilia Brainard and Susan Montepio to start PALH. PALH currently continues under the leadership of Cecilia Brainard with the help of an Advisory Board.

As a community service, PALH has created websites of noted Filipino authors such as N.V.M. Gonzalez, Lina Espina Moore, and others. PALH also maintains PALH-ezine, which showcases Filipino writers and their works on a permanent basis, providing online researchers valuable information about Philippine and Philippine American Literature. These and other important Filipino, Filipino American, and literary/arts links can be found in the Links page.

To support its literary work, PALH also carries rosaries, antiques, jewelry, and collectibles.

To those who want to know how our clients feel about us, we have posted some of our clients' feedback in our Order Page.

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PALH'S ADVISORY BOARD:

Rocio G. Davis has degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Navarre (Spain), where she is currently Associate Professor of American and Postcolonial Literature. She has recently published Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles (Toronto: TSAR, 2002).

AKEMI KIKUMURA-YANO is an anthropologist, museum curator, educator, and writer of books, plays, and professional papers, published in both English and Japanese. She is the author of Through Harsh Winters: The Life of An Immigrant Woman and Promises Kept: The Life of an Immigrant Man. Her most recent book is the Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of Nikkei. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA and taught at both UCLA & USC.

Paulino Lim, Jr. is emeritus professor at California State University, Long Beach. He earned a master's degree at University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a doctorate at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of a book on Byron and five works of fiction, including a quartet of political novels on the Philippines

Edmundo F. Litton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University where he is the Coordinator of the Secondary and Bilingual Programs. He completed his Master of Arts in Teaching degree at Georgetown University. He also holds an MA in Educational Technology and a Doctorate in Education in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco.

Susan N. Montepio has a BA in English and an MA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines. She did her masteral and doctoral work in Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. She has been involved in book production since 1992.

General Manager: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author and editor of 12 books. She teaches at the Writers Program of UCLA Extension.

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