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1) Moloka'i
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
A sweeping debut spanning from China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping family whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love--from a young, powerful new voice in fiction.
3) Zoo breath
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 4
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Calvin gets a school assignment to do some original research, he decides to investigate his dog's stinky breath and ends up learning about more than just smells.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Rani Patel, almost seventeen and living on remote Moloka'i island, is oppressed by the cultural norms of her Gujarati immigrant parents. But when Mark, an older man, draws her into new experiences, red flags abound.
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 3
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When his teacher asks him to write a persuasive argument about something he really wants, fourth-grader Calvin creates a unique way to express his desire for a dog.
Author
Language
English
Description
1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in "the dungeon" at Station HYPO in Pearl Harbor, deciphering secrets plucked from the airwaves in a race to bring down the enemy. Isabel has only one wish: to avenge her brother's death. But she soon finds life has other plans when she meets his best friend, a hotshot pilot with secrets of his own. 1965. Fledgling journalist Lu Freitas comes home to Hawai'i...
Author
Series
Hilo trilogy (Lois-Ann Yamanaka) volume 2
Publisher
Bard
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Leilani Santiago mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of Daniel's mother, Mariko, the love of his life, and the scars of a life hard-lived. He can't wait to see Daniel, who he's always thought of as a son, but he knows the time has come to tell him the truth about his mother, and his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Wilder prefers the company of horses to people, bare feet and salt water to high heels and society parties. Then, in the dizzying aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the WARDs guide pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. But not everyone thinks the women are up to...
14) Roar of sky
Author
Series
Blood of earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this stunning conclusion to the acclaimed Blood of Earth trilogy-a thrilling alternate history laced with earth magic, fantastic creatures, and steampunk elements-geomancer Ingrid must find a way to use her extraordinary abilities to save her world from the woman hell-bent on destroying it.
Thanks to her geomantic magic, Ingrid has successfully eluded Ambassador Blum, the power-hungry kitsune who seeks to achieve world domination for the Unified...
15) Hero of Hawaii
Author
Series
Calvin Coconut volume 5
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane causes the river near his Hawaiian home to flood, a boy named Calvin Coconut makes a daring rescue.
16) Project Namahana
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers―and salvation―in the jungles of Kaua‘i. Together, they must navigate the overlapping and complicated lines between a close-knit community and the hated, but economically-necessary corporate farms―and the decades old secrets that bind them.
Author
Series
Million dollar series (Dan Gutman) volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.
19) Summer bird blue
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cam glances out the window of his Hawaii hotel room just in time to see the nearby 'inactive' volcano explode! Chunks of rock and lava cascade down into the city. Cam knows he needs to find his family and get out fast, but a river of lava runs between him and his loved ones"--Provided by publisher.
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