This being a series of posts on what we think it means to be a local, independent bookshop. We proudly carry independently published, sometimes controversial books that chain bookstores will not carry for political and/or economic reasons. Our reasons for carrying them? Such books force us to question our preconceptions, they invite us to see [...]

Summer usually means “no more classes, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks!” But why not books? Summer is the best time for adventures: real or invented adventures, and even adventures read in books. Preferably books that are nothing like the textbooks kids have to lug around during the school year. According to the [...]

This being a series of posts on what we think it means to be a local, independent bookshop. We support local writers and publishers and actively seek out books that cover the people, land, culture, history, politics, economics, ecology, art, and stories of the mountains in which we exist. We may have our heads in [...]

It’s Women’s Month! For a look into the life of a remarkable woman born and raised a hundred years ago and who paved a path for women in politics, we recommend the memoirs of a Filipina suffragist: A String of Pearls by Paz Policarpio Mendez, published by The Women’s Media Circle Foundation (1998). Here are [...]

This grand volume has been in the making for almost fifty years. It began when Lee Ballard, his wife, and his two-month old baby arrived in Kabayan in 1961 to learn the language under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. He worked closely with his main collaborators, Chimcas Ameda

Butterfly People is a novel from 2011 CNN Hero Robin Lim. Released by Anvil Publishing, the novel traces the saga of six generations of a Filipino family from the northern mountains. Robin’s novel draws heavily on her family’s history and the landscape of Baguio City with its myriad influences. The central character in the novel [...]

On January 9, 2012, at 5:30 PM, come to Mt Cloud Bookshop for an evening conversation with Howard Fry, author of the seminal book, A History of the Mountain Province. During the author’s talk, Dr. Fry will speak about the process of writing A History of the Mountain Province, and how he collected primary sources [...]

On January 10, 2012 at 5:30 PM, join us in the Cloud for an intimate reading and Q & A with the woman who is a Senator, a mother, a triathlete, and a writer, all in one. In the introduction to “My Daily Race,” Senator Pia Cayetano describes her book as a combination of her [...]

On July 3, at 4PM, poet Luis Francia will read new work and excerpts from his book, Beauty of Ghosts, a theater of poetry in five voices. The works in the book “examine the immigrant’s life as seen through the eyes of various individuals, ranging from a manong to a teenage rapper, from a nurse [...]

New in the Cloud! Longhouse Days by Jainal Amambing is a beautifully illustrated book which describes in simple words a childhood spent in a Rungus longhouse, in Sabah, Borneo.