One might even call them urban culture lore. Says University of the Philippines literary professor, Philippines Free Press literary editor, and award-winning poet Paolo Manalo about Bob Ong's work: " The materials he used in his books are those familiar to this generation of Filipinos. The popularity of ABNKKBSNPLAko in particular is attributed to an element of nostalgia. success of Bob Ong's book among Filipinos has been attributed to its conversational tone which uses humor to point out various absurdities inherent to Filipino culture. The title is meant to be read phonetically as " Aba, nakakabasa na pala ako?! ", which can be roughly translated as " Wow, I can read now?! " The novel details what are supposedly childhood memories of the author, from his earliest days as a student until his first few years at work. ABNKKBSNPLAko?! ABNKKBSNPLAko?! is a 2001 novel by Filipino author Bob Ong - his first and most popular work.
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I found WITCH SONG to be positively engrossing from the first page to the last." David Farland, New York Times Bestselling Author Book Details "In WITCH SONG, Amber Argyle makes a riveting debut, creating a fresh new world full of wonder, peril, and splendor. If she doesn't, there won't be anything left to save. In the end, she must find the other witches. Along the way, she must learn to trust herself as well as the boy who has trained his entire life to be her guardian, a boy she finds herself falling in love with. With her enormous wolfhound at her side, she embarks on an epic journey. She alone must stand against an evil much older and darker than anything she could ever imagine-an evil every witch before her has failed to vanquish. So when drought chokes the land and Brusenna and her mothers little farm. All the others have been captured, their magical songs stolen and twisted from harmony and growth into chaos and death. Witch song controls nature - everything from the changing of the season to the storms. They must keep her silenced-and keep her from Vaughn… And there are Psy who need Faith’s sight for their own purposes. But while Vaughn craves sensation and hungers to pleasure Faith in every way, desire is a danger that could snap the last threads of her sanity. The jaguar’s instinct is to claim this woman it finds so utterly fascinating and the man has no argument. But so powerful is her sight, so fragile the state of her mind, that the very emotions she yearns to embrace could be the end of her.Ĭhangeling Vaughn D’Angelo can take either man or jaguar form, but it is his animal side that is overwhelmingly drawn to Faith. Then the visions show her something even more dangerous-aching need…exquisite pleasure. A bad sign for anyone, but worse for Faith, an F-Psy with the highly sought after ability to predict the future. 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The title of Anne Boyd Rioux’s comprehensive new biography of Woolson, Portrait of a Lady Novelist, nods to this relationship. But what she is best known for is her friendship with Henry James, whose literary fame has proved more enduring, and whose dramatic reaction to her death–drowning all her dresses in the Grand Canal–is the only thing most people know about her. Woolson published five novels and dozens of short stories before her death in 1894 at age 54. Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American Realist writer of renown in the 1870s-1890s, when she was one of the few women considered to be peers with their male counterparts. Available for a limited time only, HEA guaranteed. Seventeen titillating stories from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors in a spicy collection curated by The New Romance Cafe. 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