‘The Kindness of Birds’
by Merlinda Bobis
“The Kindness of Birds” is a collection of short stories that pays homage to kindness across cultures and between the human and the nonhuman world. Resilience, solidarity, and familial and environmental ties are affirmed in times of loss and grief amid COVID-19, climate change, domestic violence, or a death in the family. (Anvil Publishing, Inc.; available from anvilpublishing.com.)
‘Endangered Splendor: Manila’s Architectural Heritage Volume I, The Center’ by Fernando N. Zialcita and Erik Ekpedonu with Victor S. Venida
“Endangered Splendor” was written in the hope that seeing Manila’s remaining architectural splendor gathered together under …
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