Book End: Weekend of August 12, 2011

by Alex on August 12, 2011
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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 Hawaii. It’s weeks like these that I’m glad and proud of doing this Book End for you every week.  There were a variety of book events spanning multiple neighbor islands that I had to really search […]

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“Captain Cooked” Returns to the Islands

by Alex on July 28, 2011
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News Release S.P. Grogan, the author of Captain Cooked: Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge… and Recipes!, will be returning to Hawaii for a special book signing tour from August 10 through August 15, 2011. This past May, Captain Cooked received a Ka Palapala Poʻokela award for Excellence in “Aloha from across the Sea.”  You can read […]

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2011 Ka Palapala Awards Nominees: Excellence in “Aloha from across the Sea”

by Alex on May 4, 2011
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The 2011 Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards gala is coming soon (Friday, May 6) and to generate excitement for the event as well as educate the public on the nominees, we are counting down the potential winners, quickly highlighting the books nominated for each awards category. Where applicable, I will link to book reviews from Hawaiʻi […]

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Book Review: Captain Cooked

by Alex on February 27, 2011
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I tensed to the significance:  someone, presumably in the van, tried to kill me. Thoughts such as these are shared to us in the novel Captain Cooked by S.P. Grogan, told from the first-person narrative of one Madison Merlot Dayne, videographer extraordinaire; though really just a B-roll filming, tag-along intern to her famous and successful […]

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Island Book Tour: “Captain Cooked” is Cooking!

by Alex on January 19, 2011
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Press Release from Addison & Highsmith Publishers: S.P. Grogan, author of Captain Cooked, will be signing his mystery on the Big Island and Oahu, Feb. 19 – March 1st. One reviewer says, “Captain Cooked reads like Janet Evanovich morphing into Rachael Ray while filming a remake of the Perils of Pauline.” The book’s subtitle speaks […]

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