This book comes from Patrick Ka`ano`i, a Native Hawaiian trained by his kupuna, and has much wisdom documented nowhere else. Unique to this work is an [...]
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There will always be festivals around their creative use — storytelling in its many forms and nonfiction in it many categories. The word “book” may need to be reconsidered sooner rather than later.

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Hawaiian Birds of the Sea by Robert J. Shallenberger More than 300 species of seabirds range across the world’s oceans. In excess of 14 million birds, representing nearly two dozen species, make their home in the Hawa [...]
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Each of us has asked the question, “How do I create a successful life”? After hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of research, Evan and Kari Leong discovered that the foundation for success is built upon seven core values, revealed here in The Greater Good: Life Lessons from Hawaii’s [...]
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Pictures are excellent for seeing Hawai`i’s past, while you imagine yourself in it. That’s what HAWAI`I 50 – FIVE DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHS  has. The “…best and most representative photos, arranged by decades.”   I choose 1959 (Hawai`i statehood) through 1969. Leafing those pages I enjoy [...]
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Islands Linked by Ocean (Bamboo Ridge Press, 2009) is a showcase for the short story magic of Lisa Linn Kanae. Lisa is also the author of Sista Tongue (Tinfish, 2001), about which Susan Schultz wrote, “It combines the history of pidgin English in Hawaii with memoir with story telling.”

Islands Linked by Ocean is all about story telling, and Lisa tells a great story. I asked Lisa to share some of her thoughts about this new collection.

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by Muriel Miura & Galyn Wong What Hawai‘i Likes to Eat: Hana Hou by Muriel Miura & Galyn Wong Hana Hou! This encore presentation of select recipes th [...]
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In 1997, I took my first fiction writing class. Ian Macmillan was my professor. He was the first novelist I’d met. He wrote books about WWII and Hawaii--eight novels, five short story collections, over a hundred short stories published in magazines and journals. He won the O. Henry Award, a Pushca [...]
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That Kamehameha the Great got smacked dizzy and bloody on the forehead has been told. A common fisherman swinging his paddle did it. In that attack the warrior king was immobile cause his foot was stuck in the crevice of lava rocks.   There’s more that’s not often told. That before delivering [...]
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If this story were a romance, it would be longer than Gone With the Wind. If it were a fairy tale, the prince would grow old tracking down the owner of the glass slipper. If it were a life lesson in patience and perseverance, it would be … perfect.

I don’t cry that often, but today I did. After I had been glued to the TV screen for three days, Sunday afternoon brought an emotional reward. When Michelle Wie tapped in a birdie putt on the last hole of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara to win her first LPGA tournament, the tears began. I let them flow.

Michelle is only 20, but this day has been anticipated for … forever.

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