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  • Notes from a Wayward Son

    A Memoir

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    **“This book is a precious gift. . . . Notes from a Wayward Son is a powerful and achingly honest tribute to fathers and fatherlands. . . . Adrian De Leon is a writer of stunning intelligence, talent and wit.” —David Chariandy, author of BrotherA beautifully crafted, achingly honest memoir about the fraught relationship between Adrian De Leon and his father—a former captain in the Philippines ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Balikbayan

    A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland

    by Adrian De Leon, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Series series Critical Filipinx Studies
    How migrants imagined a country through their acts of returnWhat does it mean to go back home, especially when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the experiences of global migrants displaced by imperialism, capital, and the nation-states that have sought to manage their movements for their own political and economic benefit. Through vivid storytelling, ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Bundok

    A Hinterland History of Filipino America

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire that begins with the natives and ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Rouge

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    This series of poems is a response to the 2012 mass shooting at a block party on Danzig Street, Scarborough (Toronto). The city’s east end becomes a source of poetic inspiration, and the two intersecting subway lines provide the organizing structure. From west to east, and north to south—Kipling to McCowan, Finch to Downsview—the stations on the way inspiring form, voice, and content, meditation, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Feel Ways

    A Scarborough Anthology

    by Adrian De Leon, Téa Mutonji, Natasha Ramoutar ...
    Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a "chorus of emotional reality," in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Guard of Adriane

    (The Royals of Adriane #2)

    by Audrey De Leon ...
    Series Book 2 - The Royals of Adriane
    In the country of Adriane, Eric Sinclair is a precocious orphan who has had a rough childhood. When Princess Diana, heir to the throne, receives threats, he obtains the enviable role of being her personal bodyguard.⠀What starts as a friendly business relationship quickly turns into much more, a forbidden attraction neither can deny. However, Eric’s life may be in danger when their affection is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pencil Drawing for the Beginner - People

    Learn to Draw, #16

    by John Davidson, Paolo Lopez de Leon, Adrian Sanqui ...
    Series Book 16 - Learn to Draw
    Pencil Drawing for the Beginner - PeopleTable of ContentsDrawing ToolsBody ProportionsBody ShapePolygonal FormBall JointsArmsLegsMuscle StructureHeadsClothingINTRODUCTION TO CARTOONSTYPES OF CARTOONSELEMENTS OF A CARTOONLarge HeadsBody ProportionsProps and ObjectsEXPRESSIONSAdditional Details for Portraying Cartoon ExpressionsFACIAL FEATURESEye... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pencil Drawing For the Beginner

    Learn to Draw, #14

    by John Davidson, Paolo Lopez de Leon, Adrian Sanqui ...
    Series Book 14 - Learn to Draw
    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner - Volume 1Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONGETTING STARTEDDRAWING TOOLSDrawing MaterialsHow to grip a pencil properlyWarming upRenderingSphereConeCubeCylinderSKETCHINGStarting with sticks and shapesDETAILINGDesignTextureSHADINGCasting shadowsHatchingCross-hatchingScumblingStipplingSmudging and la... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Halo-Halo Ecologies

    The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food

    by Alyssa Paredes, Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio, Anacorita O. Abasolo, Inigo Acosta, Maria Carinnes Alejandria, Tami Alvarez, Mary Jill Ira Banta, Jose Kervin C.B. Calabias, Dana M. Collins0, Adrian De Leon1, Katrina Beatrice David Jacinto2, Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice3, Orven Mallari4, Anthony D. Medrano5, Cla Ruzol6, Joshua Ezekiel C. Sales7, Thea Kersti Tandog8, Jessie Varquez9 ...
    Series series Food in Asia and the Pacific
    Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food is a recipe for a new storytelling tradition that combines critical studies of Filipino food and of the environment. It takes as its starting point the metaphor of halo-halo, the iconic dessert of crushed ice, jellies, fruit slices, and ube jam. Food writers and social historians alike frequently describe this summertime treat as ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Notes from a Wayward Son

    A Memoir

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    Narrated by Adrian De Leon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    **“This book is a precious gift. . . . Notes from a Wayward Son is a powerful and achingly honest tribute to fathers and fatherlands. . . . Adrian De Leon is a writer of stunning intelligence, talent and wit.” —David Chariandy, author of BrotherA beautifully crafted, achingly honest memoir about the fraught relationship between Adrian De Leon and his father—a former captain in the Philippines ... Read more

    $35.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Jewel of Adriane

    (The Royals of Adriane #3)

    by Audrey De Leon ...
    Series Book 3 - The Royals of Adriane
    In the country of Adriane at a kissing booth for charity, Princess Annalise meets Alec, an ordinary citizen. Alec has had a crush on Annalise for years from afar, but as a princess and the Jewel of Adriane, she was always unobtainable. He will be in his senior year at university, and she is preparing to become the future queen of Adriane. For the first time in her life, Princess Annalise has ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • NAFTA’s Impact on Mexico’s Regional Development

    Edited by Adrián de León-Arias, Patricio Aroca ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In this book, the dynamics of continuity and change in the regional economic development of Mexico and the US border states are analyzed. These studies cover the last 25 years, after the first trade agreement, between a developed and a developing country, tooks place, and where international trade and investment have been combined with a set of relevant local factors such as regional innovation, ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD