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Books and book-lovers experienced a surge of change in 2013, with Wattpad providing a sizable new audience as well as a dynamic source of material, and National Book Store bringing the Kobo e-reader to Manila.
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The UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (UST CCWLS), with the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and National Book Store, will host the lecture and book launch of Marivi Soliven’s “The Mango Bride” (Penguin Books, 2013), on July 30, 2 p.m., at the Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, G/F Benavides Bldg., University of Santo Tomas, España St., Sampaloc, Manila.
All families have their secrets, but in fiction, the wealthier and more powerful the family, the more secrets they keep. Make it a wealthy, fictional Filipino family, then you will have secrets that will inevitably come back to change everything.
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