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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments From Puritans to heathens-Sarah Vowell takes on Hawaii in this New York Times bestseller. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler Synopsis Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with little contact from the western world. In 1778, their isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook. Deftly weaving... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Chicken Soup from the Soul of Hawaii: Stories of Aloha to Create Paradise Wherever You Are by Donna Hill Publisher Comments All over the world people have a word for paradise: Hawai'i. Now there's a book that captures that magical place for its millions of residents, the 7 million visitors who make a pilgrimage there each year, and the millions more who long to feel the magic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island by Lucinda Fleeson Publisher Comments Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Then There Were None by Martha H Noyes Publisher Comments A personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Preserving Paradise: Opportunities in Volunteering for Hawaii's Environment by Kirsten Whatley Synopsis There are struggles to keep Hawaii's coastlines from being developed, and there are the tireless folks who wake up with fears of losing a cherished piece of wilderness, an underwater sanctuary, or one of the multiple species in danger of falling off the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition by Heather A Diamond Publisher Comments At the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, throngs of visitors gathered on the National Mall to celebrate Hawai'i's multicultural heritage through its traditional arts. The edu-tainment spectacle revealed a richly complex Hawai'i few tourists ever see... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawai'i by David Stannard Publisher Comments In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i by Garrett Hongo Publisher Comments Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcano tells what happened when Hongo returned to his birthplace in Hawai'i, as a young man, to reclaim its dreamlike landscape and his own elusive past. A... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reflections of Kauai by Cheryl Tsutsumi Publisher Comments The sheer natural beauty of Kaua'i and the spirit of its past are brilliantly showcased through captivating text and gorgeous photography. A definite "must have" for anyone who's ever fallen in love with Hawai'i's most romantic island!... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Farewell, My Tani by Virginia T Parsons Synopsis Farewell, My Tani is Virginia T. Parsonss account of the life of her close friend, Tani Bishops. A direct descendant of King Kamehameha I, conqueror and unifier of all Hawaii, Tani was an extraordinary, spirited woman who contributed much to the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People (Tut Books. L) by David Kalakaua About the Author Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Princess Ka'iulani : Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (99 Edition) by Sharon Linnéa Publisher Comments ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hawai'i: A History of the Big Island (Making of America) by Robert Oaks Synopsis Although its soils are the youngest in the Hawaiian chain, the Big Island's chronicles are at times epic, tragic, and heroic, but always fascinating. Modern Hawai'i is filled with tradition and mythology, accommodating influences as diverse as its... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of Aloha: The Hawaiian Islands by Cheryl Tsutsumi Synopsis Brace yourself for a breathtaking experience of the spectacular islands of Hawai'i. Experience O'ahu, Maui, the Big Island, and Kaua'i through colorful photographs and rich words, leading you to a window with a view of Hawai'i's best — simply... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Secrets and Mysteries of Hawaii by William Pil Chiles Publisher Comments Hawaii -- a place all the world knows as paradise and one of the most remote places on earth -- may hold a clue for all humanity during our very defining moment in history. Pila explains why Hawaii is the crossroads of all our mysteries. The Hawaiian... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Footprints in the Sand: A Memoir of Kalaupapa by Henry Kal Nalaielua Synopsis When Henry Nalaielua was diagnosed with Hansens disease in 1936 and taken from his home and family, he began a journey of exile that led him to Kalaupapathe remote settlement with the tragic history on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. During its century... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under a Maui Sun: The Valley Island by Cheryl C Tsutsumi Synopsis Maui no ka 'oi - Maui is the best! Discover for yourself why the Valley Isle has earned its reputation as the best island in the world. Legends and historical accounts of Maui's past combine with descriptive text highlighting the beauty and magic of this... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Value of Hawaiʻi: Knowing the past, Shaping the Future by Craig Howes Publisher Comments How did we get here? Three-and-a-half-day school weeks. Prisoners farmed out to the mainland. Tent camps for the migratory homeless. The steady degradation of already degraded land.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $17.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lost Generations: a Boy, a School, a Princess by J. Arthur Rath Synopsis In 1944, J. Arthur Rath, a part-Hawaiian boy from a broken home, entered the Kamehameha School for Boys as an eighth-grade boarder. Thus began Rath's love affair with an institution that he credits with turning his life around, with giving him and other... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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