Non-Fiction
Survival and preparedness guides have gained a lot of popularity in the last few years, becoming a part of pop culture with the broadcast of reality shows like Doomsday Preppers and apocalyptic dramas like The Walking Dead.
The Hawaiian Survival …
Just take a moment to enjoy that cover picture and imagine it on your coffee table. The screen doesn’t do it any justice. You can’t see the embossed logo and lettering, or the smooth, glossy pages. They say we eat …
In the final, dramatic pages of Kamehameha: The Rise of a King (Kamehameha Publishing, 2013) author David Kāwika Eyre elegantly writes what the last moments of life may have been like for Kamehameha I–the beloved chief’s parting words …
On Thursday, April 24, we celebrate Hawaiʻi publishing with the 2014 Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards gala. We present to you, our readers, the annual tradition of counting down all of the wonderful locally published books nominated for awards in each …
2013 has produced some visually stunning local books and the most strikingly hypnotic of them is from Legacy Isle Publishing (an imprint of Watermark Publishing).
Honolulu Magazine and Paradise of the Pacific: 125 Years of Covers by A. Kam …
Japanese Buddhist Temples in Hawaiʻi from by George Tanabe and Willa Jane Tanabe (University of Hawaii Press, 2012) is a comprehensive guide to the Buddhist temples and culture in the islands. It’s ideal for visitors and locals alike as a …
Beautifully designed and exquisitely constructed, Engraved at Lahainaluna by David Forbes is the kind of hardcover that appreciators of Hawaiian history books might choose to prominently display on their koa coffee table. I certainly would, if I had one!
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Father Damien is likely the most famous religious figure to come out of Hawaiʻi. Everyone more or less knows the story of the man who would become a Saint. Born Jozef de Veuster in Belgium, he would later take his …
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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