Free books for Hawaii’s youth

by Alex on September 12, 2009
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posted by A.Alba If Season 3 of American Idol proved anything, it’s that the people of Hawaii can band together and show the strength, support and unity of `ohana that only our state can do.  Jasmine Trias probably wasn’t considered one of the top three Idol contestants that year, but because of the passionate support […]

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Book End – Weekend of Sep. 12

by Alex on September 11, 2009
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Thanks again to everybody for reading Hawaii Book Blog.  We are now all in with our Hawaii Public Library Challenge, touring all of Oahu’s public libraries and getting Hawaii book recommendations from each one.  In the meantime, we have a couple more book reviews nearly finished as well as a few feature posts coming soon.  […]

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Library Tour: Aiea Library

by Alex on September 9, 2009
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posted by A.Alba The second stop on our Hawaii Public Library Tour 2009 is Aiea Library, found nestled next to Aiea Town & Village Square shopping centers off of Moanalua Road.  Having only been there a couple times in the past, we didn’t expect to find the wealth of character that we did in this […]

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Library Tour: Kapolei Library

by Misty on September 4, 2009
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The first stop on our Public Library Tour was Kapolei! We met with Branch Manager, Stacie Kanno to talk about the unique role that the Kapolei Library plays in the Leeward community.  I thought I knew quite a bit about how the  system worked, but Stacie really enlightened me on some of the challenges libraries, especially […]

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Library Challenge book review: House of Thieves

by Alex on September 3, 2009
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We are just heading into the month of September now, and we are finally moving full steam into our 2009 Hawaii Public Library Challenge! As mentioned previously here, we wanted to take a challenge we joined from another book blog and really amp it up as a way to support our own public libraries here […]

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Birthday for a Queen

by Misty on September 2, 2009
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posted by M.L. Sanico Happy Birthday to Queen Lili’uokalani! This year is especially important because it is the 100th anniversary of the Queen’s Trust, which was set up to help care for Hawai’i’s children and needy families. Liliu’okalani was also a great patron of the arts. She founded the keiki hula festival, composed over 100 songs, and […]

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