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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the week’s literary and library events here in Hawaiʻi.

Support our local literary scene and our local libraries by attending these events.  Have a great weekend, everyone!

Friday, September 14

• Friends of Wahiawa Public Library Book Sale – The Friends of Wahiawa Public Library will hold a book sale during library hours. Find great used books for low, low prices AND help support your local library! Win-Win for everyone! Wahiawa Public Library (820 California Ave.); 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. For more info, call the library at 808-622-6345.

• The Eye of the Lion book signing – Experience a hurricane through the eyes of a child. Master storyteller, Mark Jeffers of Storybook Theatre, recounts the story of Hurricane ‘Iniki as it passes over the island of Kauaʻi leaving a wake of destruction in its path. He shows how one Hawaiian family prepares for the hurricane and supports each other while the storm passes over their home. Jeffers will be signing copies of The Eye of the Lion. Kukui Grove Center Stage; 4:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. For more information on the book and author click here.

• Small Island book signing w/ Anthony Pignataro – MauiTime editor and author Anthony Pignataro will be signing copies of his thrilling novel, Small Island. Read our review of this book here. Come to the Maui Friends of the Library’s used book store and meet Anthony, buy his book, and get it signed! Event Horizon Press recently agreed to publish The Dead Season, the sequel to “Small Island.” If you go to this event, you might get the scoops on his next book! Wharf Cinema Center (658 Front St., #172, Lahaina); 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. For more information, please call this phone number: 808-667-2696.

• Lost Kingdom book talk with Julia Flynn Siler – Come to a Lost Kingdom Community Dialogue event, where New York Times bestselling author Julia Flynn Stiler engages in conversation with you about her book, Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Kingdom. She’ll be at the hotel every day this weekend (Friday – Sunday)! Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel Lobby; 6:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. For more info, visit www.DistinctiveWomenHawaii.org!

Saturday, September 15

• Splash of Aloha Pre-sale at KCC Market – Here’s your chance to grab a copy of A SPLASH OF ALOHA before it makes it to store shelves! Meet the chefs & contributors and talk fish! Kapi‘olani Community College Farmers Market; 7:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. For more information about the book and event(s), visit the Watermark Publishing Blog.

• 6th Annual Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History Program – The one-day conference will feature “19th-century Hawaiian Women Leaders” (morning session) and “Women’s Expressions of Self through Music, Poetry and Dance” (afternoon session). There will be a discussion on the hula dancers of New York City’s famed Hawaiian Room of the Lexington Hotel (1937-1967), and a presentation highlighting beautiful female impersonators who performed in Honolulu’s famed Glades Show Club on Hotel Street in Chinatown from the 1960s to the 1980s. This event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required, but efforts will be made to accommodate attendees who show up on the day of the event on a “space available” basis. Attendees who pre-register through the www.DistinctiveWomenHawaii.org website are entitled to a special 20% discount off of the Hawaiian Mission Houses’ unique rendition of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a magical performance of interpretive storytelling and drama oriented in a Hawaiian sense of place. Mission Memorial Auditorium on the Honolulu Civic Grounds (550 South King Street); 8:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. For more information visit distinctivewomenhawaii.org

• 85th Anniversary Celebration of Waialua Library – The public is invited to attend this free event. The program will feature congratulatory messages from State and City officials, followed by a high-spirited performance by the Cheerleaders of Waialua Intermediate and High School. Students from the Gee Yung School will take the stage to give a martial arts demonstration and lion dance. Bungie the Clown will entertain children with face painting and balloons. Paula Fuga and Elyssa Joy, as well as the Honolulu Brass Quintet from Chamber Music of Hawaii, will provide music performances. Top readers from the Waialua Public Library’s Summer Reading Program will share personal anecdotes about what their library means to them. The program will conclude with The Country Dancers of Hawaii, who will perform and lead the audience in line dancing. In addition, there will be information tables featuring the library’s services, programs and community resources. Participants will be given activity sheets and encouraged to visit each table to get a stamp to receive a prize for completed sheets at the end, while supplies last. In 1927, the Waialua Public Library opened as the Waialua Community Station, located in the Waialua Sugar Plantation’s Office. The Waialua Public Library is now near the Waialua Shopping Center. Waialua Bandstand in the Park (across the street from the Library); 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. For more information, call 637-8286 or check out this cute YouTube video!

• Waikiki Aquarium Fish Tales: Chronicles, Critters and Crafts – The Waikiki Aquarium will host a literacy day with ocean-themed family activities. Demonstrating reading is fun, the Waikiki Aquarium will host its 3rd annual Fish Tales: Chronicles, Critters and Crafts event offering a whale of a tale of activities and storytelling. Celebrity storytellers will read from popular books about the ocean and its underwater creatures while costumed characters like Kimo and Olina and more entertain on the lawn. Keiki activities will also include puppetry, arts and crafts, face painting, cartoon drawing, storytelling and creative movement. Event participation will be included in daily admission. Daily admission is $6 for local residents, active duty military with ID, students with ID and senior citizens; $4 for youths ages 13-17 and persons with disabilities; $2 for juniors ages 5 – 12. The Waikiki Aquarium (2777 Kalakaua Avenue); 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. For more info call (808) 923-9741.

• Lost Kingdom book talk with Julia Flynn Siler – Come to a Lost Kingdom Community Dialogue event, where New York Times bestselling author Julia Flynn Stiler engages in conversation with you about her book, Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Kingdom. She’ll be at the hotel every day this weekend (Friday – Sunday)! Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel Lobby; 5:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. For more info, visit DistinctiveWomenHawaii.org!

• Audrey Sutherland’s “Paddling North” Book Tribute – Please join the author and everyone at the Patagonia Store in Haleiwa for Audrey Sutherland’s Paddling North Book Tribute. Books will be on sale for signing by the author. From Audrey: “It’s a story of a trip I took from Ketchikan around Revillagigedo Island and then across to Prince of Wales Island. I then hitchhiked with my boat deflated and folded up from Hollis to Craig, and then continued on the water to Point Baker and across Sumner Strait. From there I went up to Kake and crossed over to Baranof Island, then on the outside of Chichagof Island. I ended up in Skagway via Icy Strait, Chatham Strait, and the Lynn Canal.” Patagonia Haleiwa (66-250 Kamehameha Highway); 6:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. For more info, read this interview.

Sunday, September 16

• Talk with “Arming the Spirit” author Diana Block – Diana Block, author of Arming the Spirit, will give a talk about her memoir in which she details her experiences fleeing from the FBI after she found a surveillance device in her car. Block and her friends, activists in the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, fled LA in 1985 and hid underground for the next decade with her two children. Revolution Books (2626 S. King St.); 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. For more information please call 944-3106.

• Julia Flynn Siler Lost Kingdom Book Signing Event – In partnership with the Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History Dialogue Program the store is pleased to welcome author Julia Flynn Siler as she shares Queen Lili‘uokalani’s contemporary voyage and reception across America in the context of the universal values of faith, leadership and courage, along with the Queen’s compassion for her people. Light refreshments will be served. Native Books/Na Mea Hawaii (Ward Warehouse); 3:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. For more info, visit nativebookshawaii.com.

• Lost Kingdom book talk with Julia Flynn Siler – Come to a Lost Kingdom Community Dialogue event, where New York Times bestselling author Julia Flynn Stiler engages in conversation with you about her book, Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Kingdom. She’ll be at the hotel every day this weekend (Friday – Sunday)! Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel Lobby; 6:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. For more info, visit www.DistinctiveWomenHawaii.org!

Remember, all events listed above may be subject to change. Please contact the venue beforehand if you plan on attending. We encourage you to click on the links that are included with the events in the time line above. More events can be found on our Hawaiʻi Book Blog Events Calendar. You can also keep up with events through us on Twitter by following @HawaiiBookBlog.

If you have an event you would like us to help promote, please leave us a comment here or e-mail me at aalba@hawaiibookblog.com. Mahalo and have a great weekend!