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Author
Publisher
Addison & Highsmith
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"All she wanted was to find a quiet beach where she could go topless. It was not to be. Videographer Madison Merlot Dayne arrived on the Big Island to shoot the HDTV of her culinary father's popular television food show, "Insatiable Delights." But from the moment of her arrival, Madison and her father are involved in trying to discover who may have poisoned a revered Hawaiian singing star. Her working vacation involves riots, suspicious accidents,...
2) Eruption
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
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Language
English
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"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
4) Kapaemahu
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Four individuals of dual male and female spirit bring their healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, where they are beloved for their gentle ways and miraculous cures and where they imbue four giant boulders with their powers.
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Language
English
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As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid--a being whose presence caused global devastation--and her friendship with Aukina but suffers regret over what she had to do to survive.
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English
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"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 lead to a secret property tucked away in the remote rain forest of Kilauea volcano. When the government starts taking away neighbors as suspected sympathizers, Lana shelters two young German girls, a Japanese fisherman and his son. As tensions...
8) Hawaii
Author
Publisher
Random House Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This epic novel traces the origins and history of the islands of Hawaii, from their volcanic birth, through the first arrivals of humans from Polynesia, followed by European sailors and missionaries, then Chinese and Japanese laborers, to the modern blending of cultures.
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Series
Phantom stallion Wild Horse Island volume 2
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At her grandfathers horse ranch on Hawaii, Darby encounters a shadowy stallion prowling the ranch at night.
Author
Series
Phantom stallion Wild Horse Island volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At her grandfathers horse ranch on Hawaii, Darby Carter tries to win the trust of the mustang which she had rescued.
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Claire sees lava, sandy beaches, and undersea coral reefs] on her island of Hawai'i. Yet she dreams of snow falling from the sky, snowflakes melting on her tongue, and most of all, building a snowman. See how Claire's dreams become 'real' as she learns to appreciate the island she call home"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Cautionary fables and fairytales volume 4
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of folktales from the Pacific Islands reimagined with a modern twist.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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Series
Nancy Drew clue book volume 14
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Vacationing on the Big Island of Hawaii with friends George and Bess, elementary school student Nancy Drew searches for clues in the case of the missing camera.
17) Reckless girls
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Language
English
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"From Rachel Hawkins, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs, comes Reckless Girls, a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel...
18) Water lily
Author
Series
Phantom stallion Wild Horse Island volume 8
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After a tsunami destroys her grandfather's ranch in Hawaii, Darby must help her friend, Cade, find his mother who has been missing since the storm.
Author
Series
Dawn of Hawaii volume 2
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Torn between family loyalties, political ambitions, and their commitment to each other, Rafe and Eden must fight to protect the people and place they care about so deeply. The year is 1892 and the small island nation of Hawaii is in turmoil. Rafe Easton and a small but influential band of Hawaiian patriots are quietly pursuing annexation to the United States out of concerns that the monarchy will fall to a less noble power. But Rafe is not the...