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 Handbook (Watermark Publishing, 2014) by Brother Noland has all the necessities of a mainstream survival guide, […]
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 with our eyes, so it’s only right that a book about food be appealing to […]
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 of wisdom and guidance for his people summarizing all that he fought to accomplish. However, it was these 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 category. Here, we include not only the book title, but links to the book, information […]
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 Napier, Kristin Lipman, Michael Keany and Erik Ries. 125 Years of Covers is an interesting retrospective of […]
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 guide to finding and appreciating these sacred spaces. The book begins with an informative overview […]
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! Specifically detailing the ten years of Hawaiian printmaking at the Lahainaluna Seminary, this book casts an […]
[gn_quote] Decades after the August AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and its sister cities, Pliny the Younger chronicled how his beloved neighborhood had disappeared into the earth. Frances Kakugawa is Pliny the Younger to a modern Pompeii called Kapoho. [/gn_quote] Whenever I hear the name Frances H. Kakugawa, I tend to think of three […]
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 vows as Damien. Chosen to join a mission in Hawaiʻi, he began to see leprosy […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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