We now carry these finely crafted book jackets, bookmarks, magnetic clips and letter openers from aklateklat.

The leather book jackets come in different types of leather, including suede, and will fit a mass market or trade paperback. What is a book jacket for? It keeps your book safe and easy to carry around. It also makes a nice gift for any book lover. (I would certainly want someone to surprise me with one.) Each comes with a string bookmark weighed down with either murano glass, shells, hand-painted stones, wood, beads, etc. and no two accessories are alike. Each book jacket is unique!

The bookmarks, magnetic clips, and letter openers are carved from wood and adorned with resin moldings.

All aklateklat products are handcrafted in the Philippines.

Our next ship date has not been finalized yet but it will be sometime in September or October. If you would like your books to arrive before Christmas, please be sure to order them now.

It could be out of curiosity or maybe people like to read what other people are reading, our customers usually like to know what other customers are ordering. Here is a peek at a few of the books we have been getting requests for this month.

• The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
• Cases and Materials on Modern Procedure and Judicial Administration by Arthur T. Vanderbilt
• The Companions (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 6) by Margaret Weis
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco
• Digital Designs for Scrapbooking by Renee Pearson
• Egyptology by Emily Sands
• Getting Started in Hedge Funds by Daniel A. Strachman
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter 1-7 Box Set by J. K. Rowling
• Hegel’s Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound
• The Lady in the Tower: The Wives of Henry VIII by Jean Plaidy
• Lime Ricky by Jill Winters
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Never: Jens Pulver And the Wednesday Group that Will Change the World by Timonthy J. McKinnon
• Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential Robert Collier
• Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled by Tim Irwin
• To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy by William Golding
• Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
• The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
• The Wrekening: An Ancient Mirrors Tale by Jayel Gibson

We are glad we are able to get books and people together this way. Ah, it does feel good to help.

The Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (Umpil) would like to invite writers and lovers of literature to its 33rd National Writers Congress to be held at the Pulungang Recto, College of Arts and Letters Building, University of the Philippines , Diliman, Quezon City on August 25. The session will start at exactly 9:00 am and will last until 5 pm .

The Congress theme is “Literature and Writers’ Welfare.” Four noted writers will receive the prestigious Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas, sculpted by renowned international artist Manuel Baldemor.

Senator Francisco Pangilinan III will be the guest of honor, and will speak about his legislative vision for writers and Philippine literature in general. Atty. Louie Calvario of Intellectual Property Office will expound recent developments in intellectual property rights agenda, while Ms. Debbie P. Gaite of Filscap (Filipino Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, Inc.) will discuss the model of a collective management responsible for collecting royalties of its members.

A general election of the new set of Umpil board of directors will be held afterwards. For inquiries, please call Vim or Joey at 922-1830.

Adarna House, the country’s first and largest Filipino children’s book publisher is looking for storytellers. No details yet on what the job entails but here is the text of their invitation –

If you have a lot of free time, love the company of kids, and enjoy sharing stories, send your resume to ergoe at adarna.com.ph and gear up to tell us your favorite story!