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Name of Book: The War Nurse Author: R.V. Doon ISBN: 9781500495626 Publisher: self published Type of book: WWII, Philippines, Bataan, nursing, Germans, discrimination, internment camps for Germans, Germany, last days, 1941-1945, imprisonment, prostitution, selling body, abuse, loyalty Year it was published: 2014 Summary: The War Nurse is a historical family saga and epic military romance set during WWII.  This historical thriller begins on the eve of WWII in the Philippines. Katarina Stahl an American Red Cross nurse, is the happiest she’s ever been in her life. She’s making love and playing music with Jack Gallagher in an idyllic paradise. Their medical mission is over, the boat tickets to home are purchased, and all that remains is to fly a sick child to the hospital at Clark Air Field.  She never expected to witness bombs falling out of planes. In those terrifying first minutes, she frees a German doctor accused of spying and saves his life. She turns...

Title of the book:  The Lost Tribe of Coney Island; Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled off the Spectacle of the Century Author: Claire Prentice Publisher: New Harvest Publishing Date: 2014 ISBN:   978-0-544-26228-7 Summary: Readers of Erik Larson will love this tale of sex, greed, and the American dream: A huckster imports a tribe of Filipinos to Coney Island’s Luna Park, and two cultures collide. The Lost Tribe of Coney Island unearths the forgotten story of the Igorrotes, a group of “headhunting, dog-eating savages” from the Philippines, who were transported to New York in 1905 to appear as “human exhibits” alongside the freaks and curiosities at Coney Island’s Luna Park. Millions of fair-goers delighted in their tribal dances and rituals, near-nudity, tattoos, and stories of headhunting. Journalist Claire Prentice, who has spent years researching the topic, brings the story to life with her fluid prose and vivid descriptions. The book boasts ...

Name of Book:  A Light in the Cane Fields Author:  Enrico Antiporda ISBN:   9781434881557 Publisher:  Createspace Type of book:  Phillipines, History, 1960s, guerilla, politics, Asia, tropics, sibling reationship, wealth, secrets Year it was published:  2013 Summary: Top Semi finalist, 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Manuscript Review from Publisher's Weekly "This coming-of-age story chronicling a Filipino boy's wrenching passage from son of privilege to guerilla fighter is a stylistic tour-de-force. From its first lines, the saga of Jando Flores seizes readers with the same chilling intensity as the cold water that wraps around Jando's chest as he hides in a river to escape a gang of pillaging cutthroats. While such murderous militias dispossess cane farmers in the Central Plains of the Philippines, the NPA (a brutal leftist insurgency) combats the government troops of Ferdinand Marcos and the ruthless sugar barons who steal ...