But aside from his bravery, Del Pilar’s life story is also a story of sacrifice when he had to leave his family in the Philippines and continue the fight for reforms in Europe to escape persecution in his homeland. In the end, although loving his country to his last breath, his death comes as a final sacrifice for his motherland.

How many fish are there in the sea? Laura and Pros wanted to know! Find out how they created Fish-I, a system that uses artificial intelligence to count fish and protect our oceans for future generations.

Length 16 pages
Size 8 x 10 x 0.50 Inches
Weight 250 Grams
Type Soft Cover

Author’s Name: Ambeth Ocampo
Publisher: Anvil Publishing Inc.
Book Format: Trade Paperback
Year Released: 2025
ISBN/ISSN: 9789712738951
English
Number of Pages: 192

Siya, kung gayon, ang naging pangunahing kalaban ng unang Pilipino, si Jose Rizal.

Sa temang ito, hinabi ni Leon Ma. Guerrero ang pinakabago at, walang dudang, pinakamahusay na talambuhay ng pambansang bayani ng Pilipinas, si Dr. Jose Rizal, na nagpasigla sa nakatagong diwa ng nasyonalismo ng kanyang mga kababayan sa pamamagitan ng kanyang dalawang makabayang nobela at hinubog sila bilang isang nagkakaisa at masiglang bansa.

Isinalin sa Filipino ni Danton Remoto

Author’s Name: Leon Ma. Guerrero Publisher/Vendor: Anvil Publishing
Book Format: Trade Paperback
Year Released: 2024
ISBN/ISSN: 9789712737398
Number of Pages: 368

Illustrated by Adrian Panadero

The riveting life stories of our Philippine heroes can inspire children, students, and the next generation of community leaders. Share your love of history by bringing home Tahanan’s award-winning Great Lives Library.

Ages 8 and up • 7 x 10 • 32 pages • Paperback

*For LLH Years 7-10 and new with CM Methods/Living Books, read through the Great Lives Series starting with Mother Ignacia*

This book tells the story of Rufina Salao Vda. De Lucas, who discovered the sauce known as “patis” in 1900 as a clear liquid resting on top of her fish-salt mixtures. Realizing the value of patis, she endeavoured to produce and sell it, even when she had only 50 jars and 50 pesos to work with. Instead of buying bottles to sell patis in, she reused empty drink bottle instead.

Over time, patis grew in popularity, Lucas expanded her business to meet the demands, she switched to using wooden barrels to ferment. To protect her own business, she patented the name
“Rufina Patis” in 1935. Her company built the first concrete patis factory in 1936, since then the Rufina Patis company remains in business to this day that brings flavor to Filipino households everywhere.

Length 16 pages
Size 8 x 10 x 0.50 Inches
Weight 250 Grams
Type Soft Cover

CYNTHIA MAUNG, braved the civil war in her country home, Burma where military junta and borderline disputes subsists in many years. Dr. Cynthia is a doctor who fled and packed with some students to Mae Sot, Thailand, where she joined other exiles. She treated the local scourges of malaria, respiratory disease, and diarrhea as well as shrapnel and gunshot wounds and injuries from land mines.

To keep up, she trained health workers to assist in the clinic and to serve as “backpack medics” across the border. Dr. Cynthia expanded her clinic to meet the need. She tirelessly solicited help from relief agencies and NGOs. Her backpack medics continue to assist displaced villagers across the border and support two clinics in the war zone.

Length 16 pages
Size 10 x 8 x 0.05 Inches
Weight 250 Grams
Type Soft Cover

A medical doctor from Afghanistan who opened several clinics that aide victims of war and refugees and who empowers girls and women through literacy and education.

Dr. SIMA SAMAR to received the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the board of trustees recognized her acting courageously to heal the sick and instruct the young among the Afghan refugee community in Pakistan and in her war-torn homeland.

Genre Biographies
Length 16 Pages
Size 8 x 10 Inches
Weight 250 Grams
Type Soft Cover

This book tells the story Sanduk Ruit, an eye surgeon, whose death of his older sister led him to medicine. Ruit treks the far-flung towns to conduct eye camps, on the spot eye surgeries and almost instantly restored the sight of grateful country folks. He also devised techniques to achieve hospital-quality standards of precision and sterility under makeshift conditions.

He opened the Tilganga Eye Center ( TEC ) in 1994 in Nepal. Ruit led the operation of the center that trains eye-care paramedics, medical residents, and nurses as well as visiting surgeons from Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. It also manufactures extremely high-quality intraocular lenses for surgery and makes it available to needy recipients in some fifty countries for less than USD 5.00 apiece.

The good doctor Ruit is famous for his stamina at the operating table and can perform one hundred surgeries in a single day. He remains inspired by the joyful satisfaction of giving the gift of sight, especially to the poor. He says, “everyone deserves good vision. There can be no children of a lesser god.”

Length 16 pages
Size 10 x 8 x 0.05 Inches
Weight 250 Grams
Type Soft Cover

What were his greatest contributions to the country? How did he guide a nation in its most troubled times? What can his ideals teach us about building a government that truly serves the people? Learn more about the life story and heroism of Apolinario Mabini!

BOOK DETAILS

AUTHOR: John Ray Ramos
PUBLISHER: Kahel Press
LANGUAGE: English
ISBN: 9789716255003
DATE PUBLISHED: 2023
FORMAT: Softcover
SIZE: 7.75in x 5.75in
WEIGHT: 150g

Collect all titles in the Bayani Biographies series:

Teresa Magbanua
Gregoria de Jesus
Andres Bonifacio
Jose Rizal
Apolinario Mabini

Through engaging narratives that look into the lives of our heroes, the Bayani Biographies series aims to let readers see that the youth of today are no different from the heroes that they are reading about.