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Title: Retired LAPD Lieutenant Patricia L. Blake Signs Three Books at the 2026 Manila International Book Fair

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 4th Nov 2026 - Hosted by Explora Books, the signing featured three of her titles: a children’s book, its companion coloring book, and a memoir detailing her law enforcement career.Organized by Primetrade Asia, MIBF 2026 ran from September 9–13 under the theme “Get Lit: Reading in a New Light.” The fair drew over 234,000 visitors over its five-day run and brought together 165 exhibitors, with an official program of over 49 events. The program opened with the Gintong Aklat Awards for locally published books and included author launches, panels, and a comics session.All three of Blake’s works trace back to her horse, Mocha Latte. In the memoir Touched by the Hand of God: In the City of Angels SEND ME!, Blake recalls meeting Mocha Latte in a herd of about twenty-five horses in Castaic, California. The young horse walked up to her at the fence and would not leave; the rancher told her he had failed at cow cutting, and she took him home that day. Mocha later served beside her in the volunteer mounted unit she led at the LAPD’s Foothill Division, and she kept him for nearly twenty years.The encounter is reimagined as a ranch story and told in the horse’s own voice in Mocha Angel Warrior Book 1: True Trust Book 1. The picture book follows a colt raised under his mother’s protection until he is separated from her and trained for cattle work he dislikes. A girl named Pepper finds him at a fence, gives him his name, and later tells him that God sent him to her. Its companion, Mocha Angel Warrior: True Trust Book 1 Coloring Book, reproduces scenes from the story as line drawings, including the barn, the herd at pasture, and the meeting at the fence.The memoir, by contrast, is addressed to adult readers. Drawing on a career that ra...

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