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1) Moloka'i
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Rachel Kalama, forcibly removed from her idyllic Honolulu home in the 1890s when it is discovered she has leprosy, grows up in the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i where she forms a family of friends, and meets the man who will one day become her husband.
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English
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"[A] suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece." -Publishers Weekly
Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. Today, on the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years.
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English
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Newly married and having recently taken over the management of a hotel in Honolulu, a former writer is drawn into the lives of his guests and the distinctive customs and rhythms of the distant island. As witness to the many contrasting chronicles of the hotel's characters, he ultimately returns to writing once again. The result is this novel in eighty distinct episodes, a Chaucerian sequence of strange pilgrims and islanders confronting each other...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
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
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by real places and events of WWII, Red Sky Over Hawaii immerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale about the indisputable power of doing the right thing against all odds. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything for Lana Hitchcock. Arriving home on the Big Island too late to reconcile with her estranged father, she is left alone to untangle the clues of his legacy, which...
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Series
Magic tree house volume 28
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their Magic Tree House back to a Hawaiian island of long ago where they make friends, learn how to surf, and encounter a tsunami.
13) Aloha, Kanani
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Kanani is thrilled to welcome her cousin Rachel to her home in Hawaii, but Rachel's homesickness prevents the girls from having fun, until Kanani learns a monk seal needs their help and the two girls bond as they discover the importance of friendship.
14) Good job, Kanani
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In order to raise money to protect the Hawaiian monk seal, Kanani sells shave ice at the beach, where she meets Tutu Lani, an elderly neighbor, and discovers the seals aren't the only ones who need help.
15) Honolulu
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Language
English
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Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Amateur sleuth Henrietta Collins travels to the island home of Belle Ericcson to investigate a cryptic message that indicates her beloved husband Richard, who suffered a fatal fall from a cliff at Belle's estate six years earlier, was in reality murdered.
17) Spider bones
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English
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Temperance Brennan investigates the death of a man who was believed to have died almost forty years earlier in Vietnam and whose dog tags were found on another corpse, while also examining the remains of an adolescent boy who was found offshore and may have been the victim of a shark attack.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Maxie McNabb, a sixty-something woman who likes wandering the country in her mobile home, agrees to put her plans for a lazy summer in Alaska on hold to help her old friend Karen who is moving from Hawaii back up north, but she arrives in the islands to find Karen has not told her the truth and is soon embroiled in a dangerous mystery.
19) The aloha quilt
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English
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Bonnie Markham, her divorce pending and her quilt shop out of business, accepts an offer from her friend Claire to help run a quilting retreat at a bed and breakfast in Hawaii where she learns the quilting traditions of the islands, but her idyll is threatened by her estranged husband's demand for her share in the Elm Creek Quilts cooperative.
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