Books like Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A Russian novel about a bitter, isolated civil servant who criticizes emerging Western philosophy and attacks Nikolay Chernyshevsky's 'What Is to Be Done?'.

A thriller that brings together political intrigue, family drama and cross‑border espionage when a suicide note triggers a chain of events affecting the Clifton family, a London banker, and a woman behind the Iron Curtain.

In the final months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh finds hope and humanity in an unexpected proposal: to marry Ganga, the daughter of an old man in an evacuee camp.

Two women—a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker—travel across Duterte’s Philippines, each crafting a script that reexamines the 1901 Balangiga massacre, exploring how history and identity collide through their divergent narratives.

"People in the Philippines routinely vote, run for office, organize social movements, and call for good governance by the state. Why, then, is there a recurring state society dilemma in the Philippines? One horn of the dilemma is the persistent inability of the state to provide basic services, guarantee peace and order, and foster economic development. The other is Filipinos' equally enduring suspicion of a strong state. The idea of a strong republic evokes President Marcos's martial law regime of the 1970s and 1980s, which spawned two armed rebellions, cost thousands of lives in repression and billions of dollars in corruption, set the nation back years in economic development, and exacerbated suspicion of the state." "This dilemma stimulates thinking about the puzzle of state resilience. How has a "weak state" maintained the territorial integrity of the Philippines in the postwar period in the face of two major rebellions and an armed separatist movement, corruption, mismanagement, intractable poverty, weak sovereignty, and an often chaotic electoral system? Why does the inability to collect taxes, secure citizens' lives and property, and maintain economic infrastructure not result in state failure?" "State and Society in the Philippines engages the dilemma of state society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaborations between state leaders and social forces. It examines the long history of institutional state weakness in the Philippines and the efforts made to overcome the state's structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. It answers these difficult questions by focusing on how the state has shaped and been shaped by its interaction with social forces, especially in the rituals of popular mobilization that have produced surprising and diverse results."--BOOK JACKET.

In late‑1970s China, a small town’s citizens endure political upheaval as one woman’s dissent triggers a chilling crackdown, revealing resilience amid oppression.

A sweeping love story that spans Budapest and Paris, following three Jewish brothers whose lives are reshaped by World War II and the desperate strife of family.

1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year.

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.

A debut collection of short stories that portrays the Filipino diaspora, following exiles, emigrants, and wanderers who uproot their families to build new lives in the Middle East and America, sometimes returning home.