Norbert Mercado

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  • Bibliography:
    94 Books
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    July 2012
  • Latest Book:
    June 2018
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Book List in Order: 94 titles

  • Chrysanthemum

    Chrys, a Filipina singer in Hong Kong, is torn between Michael, a dedicated soldier fighting against communist insurgency, and Peter, a jet-setting Chinese businessman capable of offering her financial security. Written by Norbert L. Mercado in 198...

  • The Last Romanov

    Written by Norbert L. Mercado in 1992, the author takes us on a journey of possibilities about the tragic story of the last Romanov family - that of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra - after the end of World War I and the Russian Revolution....

  • The Winter Is Young

    Josephine's father is an active Major in the military. Dante, her boyfriend, has joined the forces against the government. The rebel controlled bombers swooped over Malacañang Palace on the first day of the bloodiest military rebellion in Philippine...

  • 72 Hours In Moscow

    Arthur, an American journalist is madly in love with Natasha, a patriotic Russian medical student. Will she choose his love over her love of country? A story set in the midst of the coup d' etat against Russian Premier Michael Gorbachev...Written by ...

  • The Days of an Empire

    An amazon is the key to the success of a daring mission. The target is the man she deeply loves! A novel for peace, stressing the sacredness of life, faith, and liberty in the lives of men and in the destiny of a nation....

  • Even The Grass Bleeds

    On July 16, 1990, the most devastating earthquake in Philippine history takes place. Daniel, an engineering student is trapped beneath the rubble of the Hyatt Terraces Hotel. Rose, his girlfriend, is an OFW in Hong Kong. She awaits news of his situat...

  • One Love, Three Summers

    Father Rex is a priest involved in the communist movement. Because of Annabelle, he begins to question the ideology he has followed for years. This novel spurns and condemns a bloody revolution as a solution to the problems of society, and gives an u...

  • The Korean War

    In 1951, best friends Pete Alvarez and Jose Aban, young men with adventurous goals and ambitions, have joined the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK) along with other Filipino soldiers in the 19th Battalion Combat Team.What experiences ...

  • In The Shadow Of The Roman Empire

    “The Jews love freedom, and they will fight for it with their blood,” Marcus Aurelius told his military aide Flavius as the hexareme ship Oceanus, with troops on board, was plying the Mediterranean Sea, the new lake of the Roman Empire.Ma...



  • Farewell Darkness!

  • The Roman Governor of Judaea

  • Love Blooms Where April Lilies Grow

  • Saigon

    A veteran soldier is tired of all the fighting in his country. He comes to a point where he must flee for his life. Will he choose life over love? Saigon: War's Remembrance is the latest novel from the pen of Norbert L. Mercado....

  • The Fall Of Egypt's Islamist Dictator

    Winning the first democratic presidential elections in Egypt after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, Mohammed Morsi, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, seized absolute dictatorial powers by ramming down the people's throat an Islamist constitution ...

  • Cambodia's Children of Sorrow

  • Morning Glory

    With her husband gone, Josephine decides to join the rebellion against Spanish colonial rule. What fate lies forth for the British lass from Hong Kong? Dulce Extranjera is the fourth and final book of the Morning Glory Series....

  • Love Is Beautiful

  • Prepare for Eternity

  • Dulce Extranjera

    With her husband gone, Josephine decides to join the rebellion against Spanish colonial rule. What fate lies forth for the British lass from Hong Kong? Dulce Extranjera is the fourth and final book of the Morning Glory Series....



  • Golgotha!

  • The Burning Of The Fields

    AUGUST 2, 1990. Iraq’s Army invaded the oil-rich nation of Kuwait today. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq justified the invasion of Kuwait by saying that Kuwait historically belongs to Iraq. Saddam said that Kuwait is the birthplace of Nabopollasar...

  • Golan Heights

    The Syrian rebels have captured groups of Fijian and Filipino soldiers and held them hostage. Now, the Syrian rebels are demanding for the surrender of Colonel Lucero and the rest of the remaining soldiers of the Philippine Contingent to the Golan He...

  • One Summer Day In Cana

  • Pilgrims To Jerusalem

    “Life is more exciting if there is a dream,” Jonathan Abraham told Gene Ensomo as the cruise ship Queen Virginia plied the Mediterranean Sea on a cold night. The ship was on its way to Port Haifa in Israel.Jonathan Abraham, and his wife Ruth, wer...

  • A Year Without Summer

    “The wicked man who destroys the earth won’t last long, and he will eventually be swallowed by the earth,” Engineer Timothy Muller, the Operations Chief of the Bechtel Corporation, said as he addressed more than fifty people that day. The crowd...

  • Blessed Is The Fruit Of Thy Womb

    "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16“Do not be afraid, Mary. You have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, ...

  • The Bridge

    The Saphan Mon wooden bridge spans the Song Kalia River which cuts through the town proper of Sangkhlaburi and the Burmese Mon Village called Ban Wangka.On one side of the bridge lies the village of Mon which has been the sanctuary of members of the ...

  • The Divide

    "Revenge will destroy both the subject and the perpetrator. Absolutely nothing good can come out of it,” Dr. Chatchai Ratanopol said when he talked to a group of Thai teens in Sangkhlaburi which had fought a series of rumbles against a group of tee...

  • Architects Of Earth

    “When I find the right guy, then that’s the time I’ll walk down the aisle,” Jennifer said.Jimmy felt bad at Jennifer’s statement because he had been courting her since their third year in college. But Jennifer only saw him as a friend. Ther...



  • The Demise Of A King

    “Where is the Child who has been born King of the Jews? For we observed His star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage,” one of the wise men from the East who came to Jerusalem asked one of the guards at Herod’s palace.The palace guard...

  • Escape To Tarshish

    “Is Tarshish a big city?” Jonah asked Shaphat as they lay on wooden beds for paid passengers after dinner. “It is. It’s the center of commerce in the region. That’s why ships bring goods from other nations to be sold there. There are so man...

  • A Father's Love

    “The tests of life open the panorama of God's mercy to those who trust Him,” Recab said while they were eating.Saul, Jemimah, their daughter Rebekah, Baanah, and Recab were at the dining table having breakfast. Abishai was with Ish-Bosheth in the...

  • Goodbye Babylon!

    The M.V. Apollon, a Greek pleasure ship which was chartered by the Kuwait Petroleum Company to temporarily house the firefighters for the Al Awda Project of the royal government of Kuwait, lazily docked at the Shuaiba seaport of Kuwait in the Persian...

  • Nineveh!

    “Nineveh, you will be overturned in forty days! God has seen your lawlessness, violence and immorality, and has caused judgement upon you! God will send your enemies to punish you. They will burn your city! The same thing you did to your enemies wi...

  • Oh, Jerusalem!

    “Jerusalem is an eternal city,” Engineer Andronicus Asyncritus told his fellow passengers in the 12-seater van which was taking them to Bethlehem first, and then to Jerusalem.Gene was sitting beside the driver.“What do you know about the city o...

  • One In One Hundred

    Laurel kept on urging the audience to shout, Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!At first, only a few members of the audience were shouting the word. But as Laurel and the Filipino leaders on the stage kept chanting, Banzai!, most of the audience eventually shout...

  • Shepherds of Bethlehem

    As the young couple talked in the early evening, they heard a cry from a sheep.Abner immediately took his rod and staff, for he knew that their flocks were most likely being attacked by either wolves or lions.Abigail took her rod and staff, too, to h...

  • The Union

    “Love is an emotion, too. But it is more than an emotion, a fleeting feeling which a man experiences when he meets a woman of beauty. That’s how I felt for you the first time I met you. It’s a strange feeling. The full admiration is there. And ...

  • A Summer Day In Paris

    “Smile, Norbert! This is your souvenir in Paris from me. Whenever you see this photo, you’ll remember this summer day in Paris.”Maude AdamsFrom “A Summer Day In Paris”...



  • World Record

    "Not so many nations capture the honor and privilege of establishing a world record in prolific novel-writing. The United Kingdom of Great Britain was one when its top novelist, Ms. Barbara Cartland, wrote 23 novels in 1983. Thirty-one years later, t...

  • By The Sword Of Rome

    “Do you see this sword? This was given to me by Caesar when I was appointed by the Roman Senate as the King of Judah,” Herod told the soldier.There was a terrifying silence in the Royal Court. Everyone was listening to every word spoken by Herod....

  • A Blind Man In Rhinocolura

    “Please be merciful to me! Please help me!” a blind man who was standing in front of the Al Arish exclaimed in the Egyptian tongue to passengers who had just arrived at the seaport of Rhinocolura. The passengers just came from Raphia, and had jus...

  • The 3rd Of The Magi

    “I dreamed that an angel appeared to me. He gave me a gift. When I opened the wrapped gift, it was myrrh. Then the angel disappeared. I was so scared. Then, I woke up,” Balthazzar said.Melchor and Gaspar were scared at what Balthazzar revealed to...

  • Three-Cornered Sun

    “Three-cornered sun…” Josephine mused as she looked at Aguinaldo’s sketch.“Yes. The national flag has a three-cornered sun! There is a star on each corner of the triangle,” Marcela said.“What do the three stars represent?” Delfina ask...

  • The Windmills Of Amsterdam

    AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. August 2, 1983. Catalina Smit felt a mixture of joy and anxiety knowing she would be meeting her twenty year old daughter tomorrow evening at the Schiphol International Airport. She had not seen her only child, Jacqueline,...

  • Autumn Of An Emperor

    “Fourteen years ago, I saw a very bright star from this balcony. Now, not a single star can be seen in the sky,” Emperor Augustus Caesar whispered to himself as he watched the eastern sky from the balcony of his room in his palace....

  • Benham Rise

    Benham Rise has vast deposits of methane ice, which is being considered as the fuel of the future. Having a vast repository of this resource could make the Philippines one of the richest nations in the world....

  • If We Ever Meet Again

    “Fiestas should never be banned in the Philippines,” Catherine Steinberg told her high school batchmate from the Moncada Catholic School. She was on vacation in her hometown in the Philippines.“Do you have fiesta celebrations in Denmark, too?...

  • Olympians



  • The Sheridans

    The group of American teachers came to the Philippines aboard the US transport ship USS Sheridan. They sailed from San Francisco, California to Manila several weeks before the arrival of the USS Thomas. The ship brought the first batch of Thomasites ...

  • The Flowers Of Beersheba

    The city got its name from the word "beer" which means well and the word "sheba" which means covenant. Based on the Biblical account in the book of Genesis, Abram, the patriarch of the Jewish people who would later on be called Abraham, gave the King...

  • Francisca's Love Story

    Aurelio was a handsome twenty-two-year old man. He was very friendly, had a medium build, clean-cut hair, and a positive disposition in life.Francisca sported long hair. Her eyes were very attractive and she had a well-proportioned nose. Her skin was...

  • My Sister Aida Is A Diamond

    I was either four or five years old when my sister Aida brought us kids to the kulos at the back of the San Manuel Elementary School in barrio Lanat.Kulos is the Ilocano word for a brook or an elongated body of flowing water during the rainy season. ...

  • The Sands Of Time

    “The woman is a beauty queen. She was a former winner of Miss Philippines. I met her during the inauguration of Lettergys in Quezon City. She was one of the guests during the launch,” Editha said.“How do you know that your husband is involved w...

  • There Is Eternal Life

    “Why has it suddenly become dark?” Flavius asked his fifteen-year old servant, a Jewish teen from Caesarea Philippi.Flavius was one of the trusted military aides of Pontius Pilate, the Roman Procurator of Judea and Samaria from 26 A.D. to 36 A.D....

  • The Third Thief

    Adoram and Zadok were still asleep when Ephraim left the house. He had covered his head with a cloth. He also kept a black eye-patch in his bag for covering his left eye. This would serve as a form of disguise. He also carried a staff that served as ...

  • Altalena

    At the seaport of Marseille, the boarding ramp of the ship Altalena was crowded by Jewish immigrants bound for the newly-established state of Israel. Altalena was the former LST-138, one of the landing crafts used by the Allied countries in the invas...

  • An American Teacher In The Philippines

    George William Sutterthwaite looked at the map of the Philippine Islands in the office of the American volunteer teachers inside the Walled City of Manila, commonly called Intramuros. The office of the American volunteer teachers was located near the...

  • The Battle Of Manila Bay

    The Spanish Armada has allowed the Spaniards to maintain their powerful grip on the areas they have conquered.The American Asiatic Squadron aims to break that grip and bring freedom to the inhabitants of the Spanish colonies.Explore the battle which ...

  • Death Or Victory

    “You might be wondering why I volunteered to come to Israel as a medical doctor. I’ll tell you a brief story. My father is a pastor. My mother is a teacher in a Christian school. I have a younger sister at home. Her name is Eloise. I remember a m...

  • The Disgrace Of The Roman Empire

    As the military governor of Rome in Judea and Samaria, Pontius Pilate was under the Roman prefect of Syria. If there were rebellions in Judea and Samaria, the procurator could seek the assistance of the Syrian prefect to quell the rebellions. Rome sa...

  • If Tomorrow Never Comes

    “I miss you. Wherever you are, my love, I hope you are safe. You can call me by landline or cellphone, or just text me. I’m aware of the situation you are in, and I’m praying for you,” Andrea Gonzales said in her radio program in DWRD titled ...

  • My Good Friend Elvie

    I didn’t see Elvie again since the night of our graduation from the Plebeian Academy until I met her in Hong Kong in 1990.It took nineteen long years.She was surprised when I saw her one Sunday morning at the second floor of the Hong Kong Post Offi...

  • Pearl Harbor

    Aurelio Mercado, Sr., a public school teacher in San Manuel Elementary School in the town of San Manuel, in the province of Tarlac, Philippines, and his brother-in-law, Quirino Lacierna, were at the front yard of Aurelio’s house after dinner discus...

  • Tutored By The Thomasites

    The Americans introduced free public education to all Filipino children. It was a radical contrast to the more than three hundred years of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, when education was generally only for the children of the privileged ...

  • The Day The Sun Stopped Shining

    Dismas, one of the thieves who was crucified on the right side of Jesus, recognized Annas. He met him three years ago. Annas asked for a huge sum of money from Dismas’ mother Deborah so that he could ask the Roman prison authority in Jerusalem to r...

  • From This Day Forward

    The parents of Gregoria came all the way from San Joaquin, Iloilo to attend her graduation from the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) School of Nursing. They rode a kalesa from San Joaquin to Iloilo City, and sailed to Manila via the ship M.V. Maynil...

  • A House Divided

    “Menachem Begin, the leader of the Irgun militia and who is currently the chairman of the Herut party, an opposition political party in Israel, has called on all Jews worldwide to help the government of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion in the constr...

  • The Teacher Of A President

    “Class, I’m Josephine Bracken Rizal-Abad, your teacher in English starting today. Together, we will be learning the language used by all the nations under the British Empire, and by the United States of America,” Josephine told her pupils in Ce...

  • All Nations Against Jerusalem

    After the symposium, the two friends talked to Doctor Ben Gurion and requested for an interview. They wanted to ask her more questions about the Middle East issue. She granted their request. They interviewed her over a cup of coffee at the University...

  • Back To The Parthian Empire

    The Magi, their families, and their servants slept in the tents they put up in a field near the house where the Child was. It was already past midnight when they slept, and the big star which they saw in the east shone over the village.That night, Me...

  • I Grieve For You My Brother Jonathan

    “Why have Jews suffered so much? The Romans destroyed our homeland and dragged our forefathers to the territories of the Roman Empire as their slaves. We have suffered inquisitions, holocausts, famine, discrimination, and wars like no other people ...

  • The Land And The Bamboo House

    A woman wishes to have a house she can call her own,” Francisca told her husband Aurelio as they walked hand-in-hand in the school yard of the San Manuel Elementary School.It was early Saturday evening, just after dinner. Aurelio asked his young wi...

  • Peace Time

    Aurelio Mercado was one of the individuals who attended the Conference of Industrial Arts Teachers in Baguio City in the last week of April, 1930.It was summer. He and Francisca just got married on the second Sunday of that month, after the end of cl...

  • A Romance In Pre-War Manila

    Doctor Sergio Morales hurriedly walked to the classroom in PGH where he would teach the subject of Dermatology that morning. It was the first day of class in a rainy June month, and he did not want to be late. He hurriedly buttoned his white coat.“...

  • Coming Home

    Kara sang well. It was amazing how she memorized the lyrics of the song at such a young age.As she sang, my thoughts wondered to the time when my mother Francisca Lacierna Mercado, and her younger sister Ninay, fetched their sick brother Gadong who e...

  • Escape To Egypt

    “Why would King Herod look for my Child to kill Him?” she asked Joseph.“I don’t know…” Joseph replied.Mary asked him where they would go.“The angel told me to go to Egypt with you and our Child, and stay there until he tells us to leave...

  • Parched Fields

    “What do you want to be when you grow up?”This question of Uncle Gadong rang in my ears as I sat at the base of the Ambuklao tower in the western field of Lanat, San Manuel, Tarlac, my birthplace.He asked me this question sometime in November 196...

  • Sunflowers

    Edmund de los Reyes and Carla Quinzon were both sophomore students of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. They were also membersof a Christian campus organization called Campus Crusade for Christ.In September 1973, a year after...

  • Peace Talk

    Josephine Marquez watched on television the live nationwide media coverage of the announcement of the government’s response to the massacre of thirty-six soldiers under the command of General Teodolfo Bautista on October 10, 1977 by Muslim rebels i...

  • The Silk Trade

    Menachem was a young Jew who had been engaged in the silk and spice business for almost two years. The silk came from China, and the spices from India.Menachem and his friends bought the silk and the spices from Parthian businessmen in the city of Pe...

  • Strangers In Egypt

    The town of Rhinocolura had a seaport called Al Arish. Passengers from the town of Raphia in Judah travelled to Egypt by crossing the river using the boats operated by Egyptian entrepreneurs. This is the town where Joseph, Mary and the Child Jesus fi...

  • Catherine's Homecoming

    “I have always longed to come back to the Philippines. It is my home. Everything in my life started in my country,” Catherine told her seatmate, Laura Khristenson, in the plane on a long flight from Denmark to Manila.Laura was surprised.Her seatm...

  • Destroy The Bandits

    Andrea Gonzales has been a newscaster and program host in DWRD Radio Davao for five years.The first news item she was to read that day in August 2016 stirred her emotions, for it was about the beheading of a local teenage boy by the Abu Sayyaf, an Is...

  • Ricardo Sapelino, USM, And The Vietnam War

    Ricardo Sapelino of the United States Marines, or USM, was a Filipino combat soldier during the Vietnam War. He joined the United States Navy or USN in 1965, during the middle period of the Vietnam conflict. He received training as a member of the Ma...

  • Sink Altalena!

    The French government wanted to have influence in the British-controlled Palestine after the United Nations’ 1947 partition of the ancient land to the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. The French government of Charles de Gaulle donated 5,000 rifles, ...

  • The Towns I Love So Well

    There is an adage which states most aptly that home is where the heart is. This is true for me.An American president also once said, “I love them more whom I loved first.”I say this is true, even for places. San Manuel and Moncada are towns I lov...

  • A Lady From Saint Lucia

    Nadine Joseph, a lady from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, was one of the more than 200 students and speakers of English as a second language who were listening to the speaker in the conference in Baguio City. It was held in a big hotel in the summer c...

  • Miracles Never Stop

    Jerusalem Angela Mercado was not so sure if she was prepared to take the 2016 Medical Board Examinations in Manila, Philippines after her classes in a review center in Manila ended in January 2015.When her father, Norberto, asked her if she...

  • One Autumn Night In Rhine Falls

    It was one autumn night in 1984 when Carl proposed marriage to his beloved Linda.“Let’s get married in December,” Carl appealed to her.They were looking at the exhilarating sight of the Rhine Falls, with resplendent lights beaming on the rushin...

  • Seeds In San Manuel

    “Good morning, Maestro,” a mother who wanted to enroll her ten-year old son in grade five in San Manuel Elementary School greeted the teacher, Aurelio Mercado.It was enrollment day in the largest public school in the town of San Manuel, the north...

  • The Death Of Emperor Augustus Caesar

    Emperor Augustus Caesar looked to the dark southern sky on the balcony of his palace in Rome one early evening, as he had done in two nights before. He wasspending the past two nights simply gazing at the dark southern sky.His wife, who had accompani...

  • The Grand Archon

    “A Sigma Rhoan should believe in the existence of the Almighty God who created this earth and the whole universe. If he does not believe in God, to me, he is not a true Sigma Rhoan,” Attorney George Briones firmly stressed to his brothers, or bro...

  • Hadrian's Curse & Balfour's Error

    “The land of Israel was promised by the Lord God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things which the universe and this earth contain. Israel and the city of Jerusalem will never be extinct because of God’s promise to Abraham, the fath...

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Norbert Mercado has published 94 books.

Norbert Mercado does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hadrian's Curse & Balfour's Error, was published in June 2018.

The first book by Norbert Mercado, Chrysanthemum, was published in July 2012.

No. Norbert Mercado does not write books in series.
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