BOOKS TO NOTE: FICTION AND NON-FICTION SET IN HAWAII, & SOME HISTORICAL HAWAIIAN FICTION (ongoing)
Needing a change in her life, a woman takes up a friend’s offer and moves to Hawaii, becoming part of a quilter’s group.An Amish young woman, permitted to go on a cruise, finds herself stranded on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai after she misses the ship’s time to depart. What will she do now?Of famous artist George O’Keefe visiting Hawaii in 1939 after being invited to visit Hawaii to paint some of Hawaii’s flowers. A 12 year old girl, Patty, the daughter of a plantation manager on Maui, hosted Georgia. This is Patty’s story, told after she grew up and moved to New Zealand.A little girl gets a red mark on her face, then is sent alone to live in a Leper colony. She believes her life is over; but it’s just beginning.Sequel to MOLOKA’I. Somehow the little girl with leprosy gets to leave the leper colony, is adopted, goes to live in California, gets caught up in a WW 2 internment camp for Japanese-Americans, grows up, and then gets to meet her birth-mother.Some years after the Hawaiian Islands form, native peoples strive to keep their identify as missionaries arrive. One young missionary couple moving there gets caught up in their own struggles.HONOLULU by the author of MOLOKAI and MOLOKAI’S DAUGHTER
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