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Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

Volume One in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

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Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

Volume One in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

Adapted from the Philippine National Book Award-winning novel, Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon takes the reader on a journey of discovery as Janus learns the truth about the supernatural realm of mythical creatures that surround us and how he and his family is connected to this magical world. Monsters live in the darkest corners of our dreams, existing only as nightmares, but sometimes they find a way out. When dreams and the waking world collide how can we know what is real? Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon tells the chilling tale of a boy's courageous actions amidst a shadowy world and his struggle to overcome the nightmares in his waking life. Janus is like most teenagers—he argues with his parents, wishes he had a girlfriend, and is obsessed with video games, especially one where the players fight against monsters from Philippine folklore. It's all very ordinary, until one day when everything falls apart. During an online tournament at a local internet cafe, all the players fall dead, except for Janus. The horror deepens as the deaths multiply across the country and Janus is contacted by a stranger, a survivor of the tournaments like himself, who asks to help solve the mystery. Along the way, Janus discovers a hidden truth in the game he has been playing and its connection with a nightmarish creature from the ancient caves of Tabon that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. "Finally, a hero like Janus Silang claims his space in our imagination. He rises above the challenges and gives hope—a bright star leading us out of the darkness." —Dan Matutina, award-winning illustrator and graphic designer

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462924212

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9781462924219

Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Volume Two in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar,Mervin Malonzo

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Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Volume Two in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar,Mervin Malonzo

If Britons have Harry Potter and Americans have Percy Jackson, we Filipinos have Janus Silang." --Bongbong Books Review Following a grisly encounter with the Tiyanak, an evil creature from Philippine folklore, Janus Silang realizes that nothing in his life will ever be the same again. He and his family are now the targets of a powerful force that must be destroyed. Janus and his friends escape to Kalibutan, where the Tiyanak cannot follow. There, he searches for Tala, the Tiyanak's goddess twin and the only being with the power to defeat it. This quest leads him again to the word of online gaming, where to his great dismay he discovers that he is not the only one seeking her! The second volume in the Janus Silang series, Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan is adapted from the award-winning novel by Edgar Calabia Samar, one of Asia's best-known writers and multiple winner of the Philippine National Book Award.

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146292459X

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Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

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Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

Touted as a “new way of writing,” this novel in Filipino centers on Daniel who dreams of writing a novel. He creates a labyrinth of narrative voices inspired by writers he has read—fragments of scenes and situations that blend together, ushering Daniel to self-discovery along the way. Text in Filipino (Tagalog).

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240

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Anvil Publishing, Inc.

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9712729044

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9789712729041

Eight Muses of the Fall

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

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Eight Muses of the Fall

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

This novel is on the one hand a young man’s frustrated attempt to write the great Filipino novel, and on the other, his coming to terms with the futility of his search for his lost mother. Along the way, he is guided and misdirected by some muses and demons to reimagine his personal past without the burden of national history. He will be forced to accept that truth can somehow be in the deceptive, inchoate recreation of memories, without which, the fall seems inevitable.

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Anvil Publishing, Inc.

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9712729222

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9789712729225

Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Volume Two in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar,Mervin Malonzo

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Volume Two in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar,Mervin Malonzo

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Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

Volume One in the Janus Silang Saga

By: Edgar Calabia Samar

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Volume One in the Janus Silang Saga

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Book's by Edgar Calabia Samar

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

Eight Muses of the Fall

Eight Muses of the Fall

Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Janus Silang and the Struggle for Kalibutan

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

Janus Silang and the Creature of Tabon

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