It’s a given, Kamehameha gained the skills of weaponry use and man-to-man fighting. Credit to his instructor, Kekuhaupi`o, expert at dodging and catching spears aimed to kill, a bone-breaking technician of lua wrestling, and master of  parrying and thrusting in fencing with a staff. Competen [...]
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Poke, Hawai‘i’s favorite food has taken off—sold, served, and savored everywhere.  In his new coffee table book, Sam Choy shows poke’s versatility as well as the creativity with which it can be prepar [...]
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It can’t be said of many books that every Honolulu home should have one, but HONOLULU STORIES is such a book.  It’s certainly one of the best possible Holiday [...]
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I’ve always had a problem with the abundance of nostalgia in local literature. Because we live in such a beautiful place, it’s so tempting to write about Hawaii when it was even more lovely—less people, more fish. We witness nostalgia in songs, books, and hear it from our elders all the time. [...]
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Books make fantastic gifts—you can give someone countless gourmet meals, a trip to a far-flung land, transport them to the future or bring them back to their past all in a tidy package.

There’s a book to suit everyone’s taste, they last longer than a box of chocolates, they don’t go out of style, and everyone—young or old—appreciates a good story.

Here are a few gift ideas for this holiday season from Watermark Publishing’s catalog:

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TALKING HAWAI`I’S STORY: ORAL HISTORIES OF AN ISLAND PEOPLE is a must read book for its wealth of talk-story reminisces by local folks. Great as a Xmas gift. It’s a given that Queen Lili`uokalani looms large in Hawaii’s history. But in The Rascal of Waikiki by Lemon “Rusty” Holt we learn o [...]
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Most of us have way too much on our plate. To make time to read we have to find a personal oasis, a place away from all the modern noise, then turn [...]
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Hulo! (hooray) is a fast, fun, and easy way to practice your Hawaiian vocabulary while competing with friends and family. Whet [...]
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Who says books are going to be replaced by ebooks? The millions of Twitter(TM) users now can save their “tweets” as a permanent printed and bound BOOK!

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What’s the connection between land and power? It’s the central question in LAND AND POWER IN HAWAII. The potent answer: Land – the ownership, control and use of it – is power. The book begins earnestly in the 1950s. Democrats then control the territorial legislature and most of the county go [...]
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