The Beginning and Other Asian Folktales is a collection of 18 folktales from Laos (Hmong), the Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Sumatra, Bali, India, China, Korea. This children's book was originally published...

Asian and Philippine Folktales contains retellings of beloved Asian and Philippine folktales as retold by members of PAWWA (Philippine American Women Writers and Artists). This children's collection includes...

CONTEMPORARY FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA, edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, collects 26 short stories by Filipino and Philippine American writers, including Luis Cabalquinto, Linda Ty-Casper,...

GROWING UP FILIPINO 3: NEW STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS collects 25 short stories by Filipino authors in the US and the Philippines about what it means to be young and Filipino. The stories explore the universal...

Acapulco at Sunset and Other Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard was first published in the Philippines in 1995. It was published in the US in 2020.  The book collects 17 stories inspired by the author's...

Cecilia's Diary documents a Filipino teenager's coming of age in the 1960s in the Philippines.Filipino writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard discovered the healing power of journal writing when she was very...

Growing Up Filipinos: Stories for Young Adults is the critically acclaimed collection of stories about the experience of growing up Filipino. Emerging and established award-winning writers are the authors...

DESCRIPTION AND PRAISE: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's FUNDAMENTALS OF CREATIVE WRITING  is a marvelous textbook that combines useful technical advice on craft with beautiful practical examples in her own...

LYRICAL AND POETIC NOVEL BY AWARD WINNING AUTHORThis US Edition of the novel MAGDALENA includes illustrations by the author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard.Written in the fragmented style, Philippine American...

A Different Kind of Mystery/Detective NovelShortlisted for the Inaugural Cirilo F. Bautista PrizeFinalist for the 37th National Book Award in the Philippines When a murdered priest is discovered in a...

WHEN THE RAINBOW GODDESS WEPT is Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's acclaimed first novel about the coming of age of a young girl in the Philippines during World War Two. First published in the Philippines...

Finalist for the 40th National Book Awards in the Philippines Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard collects 39 of the award-winning Filipina American author's short fiction. The book includes...

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BY AWARD WINNING AUTHORWOMAN WITH HORNS AND OTHER STORIES by Philippine American writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard introduces her first book to new readers. First published in 1987,...

Seven Stories from Seven Sisters: A Collection of Philippine Folktales is a children's book that collects retellings of Filipino folk tales. Members of the writers' group PAWWA (Philippine American Women...

Out of Cebu collects 28 essays by award-winning Cebuano author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Many of the essays are about Cebu, Philippines: its history, her experiences growing up in the port city, and...

Finalist 31st National Book AwardsCecilia Manguerra Brainard's Vigan and Other Stories collects twenty short stories, some of which were inspired by her visits to various places including Vigan in the...

Fundamentals of Creative Writing, Revised and Expanded Edition is a practical how-to-write book that can be used as a text book or it can be read by those interested in learning how to write. The author...

This beautifully illlustrated book containes two delightful novellas written by two award-winning authors, Eve La Salle Caram and Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, who write about women in search of love and...

“This collective and collaborative novel proves that writers share much more than just an interest in, as one of the authors puts it, ‘the idea of creating something of rare beauty out of nothing at all.’...