Summit Books
Summit Books is Summit Media's new division focused on providing the public with fresh reading material that's well-written, well-distributed and most importantly, well-priced. Its vision:
- To produce reasonably-priced, quality contemporary books
- To get Filipinos into the habit of reading and buying books
- To do for books what Summit Media has done for magazines in the Philippines
Book List:
It's happened to almost everyone - a breakup that's seemingly impossible to recover from. Whether you've been together two months or ten years too long, there's a post-relationship limbo you need to survive in order to get on with your life.
Every girl has a story to tell, but everyone agrees - sure, it's hard to do, but it's definitely not impossible to overcome.
Jenny Manuel gathers the true and outstanding tales of women conquering breakups - from the mild to the truly horrific.
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For Abi, the main character of Between Dinner and the Morning After, the latest read from Summit Books, love's path is a forked road. One leads to the stereotypical "Mr. Right" - kind, handsome and successful, with a beautiful engagement ring to boot, while the other gives way to a former love, a casual relationship she can't even put a status on because they were never together in the first place. He sends her e-mail from the U.S. recounting his enduring quest to find her, complete with insinuations of possibly rekindling old flames. Even after eight years, this guy still makes her heart skip a beat. Naturally, she can't have both. So what's a girl to do?
Find out what happens when the past makes a comeback with this excerpt from Summit Books' latest novel Between Dinner and the Morning After
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From the pages of Seventeen magazine comes the book that chronicles real college life: making the grade, forming friendships that will last the rest of your lives, charting your future, and falling in love possibly for the first time. For regular guy Vince Teves, every significant experience during the four years that would shape the rest of his life was worth remembering. This is his story.
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For on-the-go pro shutterbabe Denise, one night of fun quickly turns into a life extraordinary as she assumes a new title: Mommy. Er, make that: Single Mommy. With a demanding career, a brand new baby girl, and very little breast milk, she needs all the help she can get, including that from Coby: Father of the Child. No one said motherhood was easy but single motherhood sure raises the bar!
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She's all that...But if she's so smart and pretty, how come she's not with anyone?
Junior marketing executive Rudie Bermejo can't figure out why she's never had a boyfriend, and why no one seems interested beyond being friends. All her friends tell her she looks great, and her boss thinks she's got the smarts to make it big, and guys think she's a cool chick to hang with. That should make her a catch, right?
Determined to graduate from the No Boyfriend Since Birth Society, Rudie decides to take matters into her own able hands. And the dating spree is only the beginning...
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Before she became the uber-successful creator of the Wander Girl Guidebooks, a series of travel books made especially for Pinays, Hilda Gallares was a self-declared loser. Fresh from the clutches of college, she couldn't wait to take wing and discover the world - see the sights and savor the scents of all things strange and foreign. But her plan to become a flight attendant and travel the world for free hit a major dead-end early in the game: the unfortunate height requirement. It was a slight snag in her globetrotting dreams that nevertheless unraveled her.
Since no self-respecting girl should let any setback stop her from following her heart, Hilda sets off on a journey that takes her through days of pining for the perfect job, over rough seas of heartbreak and disappointment (not to mention bad sex), and even into foreign territory: passionate Frenchmen, earnest New Zealanders, witty Brits. Armed only with an honest map to her own heart, it's a journey that eventually leads her to her true calling, her true self, and true love.
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Mia is a 23-year-old web designer, karateka, and self-styled manang who likes to play it safe.
With clothes...
If not the comfortable training suits, only buttoned-up tops that don't show too much skin, skirts that fall below the knees, and pants safe enough to run in will do.
With web design...
Can you say, "Predictable?"
With karate...
She's managed, to her karate teacher's surprise, to rise to the rank of brown belt without having joined a single tournament. Her biggest fear? A bloody or broken nose.
And when it comes to love and relationships...
She'll share afternoon lattés and a kiss with a perfect stranger in a foreign country (using a fake name, of course).
She can even imagine getting it on with her training buddy and devoted best guy friend (well, sometimes).
But she'll never, ever, risk getting her heart seriously broken.
All that is about to change.
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Twenty-six-year-old Teri Maraņa wants to do the right thing and is hell-bent on improving herself and her life - she turned her back on a miserable and abusive relationship, enrolled in graduate school for a master's degree in creative writing, and decided to give love another chance by agreeing to a blind date - with a young college professor who turns out to be too yabang for words.
Never mind that she may have started her new life on the wrong foot care of the blind date from hell - there's one thing that keeps her going: mysterious and passionate love letters from a secret admirer that keep appearing at strange places. With her name on it.
Hot on the trail of the elusive writer, Teri can't help but wonder: Could Mr. X be Mr. Right as well?
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28-year-old copywriter Karen has finally found bliss in the arms of a new boy, Bert Reyno, the very same one who stepped into her life when ex-flame Miko the Cheat stepped out.
Will the fun last all the way to the altar, or is it doomed to lose steam on the race down the aisle? Find out in Summit Books' latest title Almost Married, the sequel to Getting Better!
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When her perfect boyfriend - college hoop star, certified hottie and young hotshot legal eagle Itos Ongpauco - decided call it quits, 23-year-old Monica, barista by day and dreamer by night, found herself stepping out from behind the coffee counter and out of her comfort zone-into the mad world of magazine publishing. While starting out at the bottom of the food chain as the overworked, unpaid intern at M magazine can obliterate any trace of a self-esteem, anything - including bitchy bosses, temperamental photographers, rather dull but oh-so hot male models - is a welcome balm to Monica's pains.
Never mind that her freebie-obsessed boss treats her like an on-call, 24-hour proxy service. Never mind that, sometimes, when she's had too much alcohol, male models become irresistible. Never mind that, despite having just had her heart broken, the possibility of love presents itself again.
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Beautiful, talented, and starving theater actress Kach, who has a real penchant for drama, lives off the refrigerators and affection of her dearest childhood friends. Now Kach has finally landed a legitimate role costarring an intense, sexy and brooding young stage actor of the James Dean mold named Sanchez. Their onstage chemistry quickly reaches boiling point and suddenly Kach finds herself in an exciting romance, complete with snatches of smooches behind closed stage curtains.But their romance takes a dramatic turn when Kach discovers that Sanchez isn't tailor-made for the role of her real-life leading man... and that someone else is ready and willing to audition!
'A super-satisfying, sexy and hilarious read about the comedy and tragedy of love and other entanglements' - Cosmopolitan Philippines
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