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Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.

Can their love survive two very different cultures? Lily Walsh has never imagined anything like America. From supermarkets and swimsuits to the way women look men directly in the eye, she's baffled by this strange new land. Raised in a remote Asian village by her disciplinarian father, 24-year-old Lily is thrilled to visit her brother Jeff in Hawaii-until Jeff is called away on urgent business. Left in the care of Jeff's best friend, Gabe Kapaia,...

Setting out for a last adventure with best friend Kit before her nuptials, Regan Reilly heads off to the Hawaiian islands, where the murder of a young woman involves Reilly in a multi-island investigation.

America's preeminent storyteller, James Michener, introduced an entire generation of readers to a lush, exotic world in the Pacific with this classic novel. But it is also a novel about people, people of strength and character; the Polynesians; the fragile missionaries; the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who intermarried into a beautiful race called Hawaiians. Here is the story of their relationships, toils, and successes, their strong aristocratic...

Recounts the story of Hawaii's last heir to the throne, who was denied her right to rule when the monarchy was abolished.

This two-hour special offers an in-depth look at the critical 24-hour period after news of Japan's attack on U.S. soil in 1941 reached the President. Drawing on exhaustive research and new information provided by the FDR Library, the special gives a rare and surprising glimpse at the man behind the Presidency and how he confronted the enormous challenge of transitioning the nation from peace to war.

Island of flowers: When Laine Simmons travels to Hawaii to reconcile with her father, she is accused of having ulterior motives by his business partner. Less of a stranger: When a good-looking stranger offers to buy her grandfather's amusement park, Megan Miller soon finds herself thinking more about him than business.

An introduction to the Aloha State, including its history, resources, famous citizens, and places of interest.

A descendant of royalty and one of the largest landowners in Hawaii, Matthew King struggles to deal with his out-of-control daughters--ten-year-old Scottie and seventeen-year-old Alex--as well as his comatose wife, whom they are about to remove from lifesupport.