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Title: Claudette McLennon Highlights Six Novels at the 2026 Manila International Book Fair

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 23rd Oct 2026 - Held from September 9–13 under the theme “Get Lit: Reading in a New Light,” MIBF is the Philippines’ longest-running and largest book event. Now in its fifth decade, it draws over 100,000 visitors each year. This year’s edition brought together 165 exhibitors across two floors and an official program of over 49 events, opening with the Gintong Aklat Awards for locally published books and including author launches, panels, and a comics session. The theme’s emphasis on seeing reading in a new light echoes McLennon’s fiction, in which characters uncover buried truths, confront inherited pain, and choose different paths forward.Two of her novels turn on family legacies. Sins of the Parents opens in hospice care, where Marlene Henderson Tulloch recalls an abusive childhood under the grandmother who raised her after the deaths of both her parents, alongside a life spent teaching and raising four sons. In Let Go, seventeen-year-old Madison Brookes, newly orphaned, must follow her mother’s will and spend a year with the father she has never met, an arrangement she initially resists.Maryanne Radieux anchors the Full Circle duology. The first novel, a courtroom and small-town drama, follows the trial of four classmates accused of raping Maryanne, whose fathers include a police chief, a congressman, a bank manager, and a car dealer. The trial ends with the men’s acquittal. Full Circle: The Return Book 2 picks up years later, with Maryanne now a nurse pursuing the men. Her confrontation with them is interwoven with her relationship with her high school sweetheart, while a reopened police investigation develops as a parallel storyline.Women of Passion follow Martha Renee Chimes. A former teen model and soc...

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