Writing The Hawaii Memoir

Author : Darien Gee
Publisher : Watermark Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781935690535
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Writing the Hawaii Memoir written by Darien Gee and published by Watermark Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of writing your memoir or family history but don't know where to start? This invaluable how-to book with tips from more than 20 Hawaii writers and 25-plus writing exercises will help you on your way. You don't have to live in Hawaii to benefit from this book--it works no matter where you live. Writing the Hawai'i Memoir: Advice and Exercises to Help You Tell Your Story uses Hawai'i's rich cultural diversity and history of oral storytelling to propel writers into action. It's for anyone who has a life story and wants to share it with others, and it will help you complete your memoir quickly and easily regardless of your writing experience.

Author : Walter Dods, Jr.
Publisher : Legacy Isle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781935690764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Yes! written by Walter Dods, Jr. and published by Legacy Isle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics, business and community interests often collide in modern Hawaii. In a small island state, there is no way to avoid it. One man who stood at the intersection of these three waves throughout his career is banker Walter Dods Jr.Dods was born in Honolulu just before Pearl Harbor, the first of seven children in a close-knit family that struggled to pay its bills. From those modest beginnings, Dods grew to play a role in the modern history of Hawaii. He helped to sustain a political dynasty through his work for the campaigns of Gov. George Ariyoshi and Sen. Dan Inouye. He built the state's largest and most successful business, First Hawaiian Bank/BancWest Corporation. His focus on community service and charitable fundraising has helped to support a society too often fractured by the divide between an immigrant, plantation past and the more modern forces of contemporary America.This memoir describes many of the steps - and occasional missteps - along the way and concludes with Dods' observations on the nature of power and ways in which Hawaii's next generation can find success while staying true to "local values."

Author : Victoria Nelson
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312036904
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book My Time in Hawaii written by Victoria Nelson and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a teacher and archaeologist, shares her experiences living in Hawaii, and includes her observations on Hawaiian society

Author : Tw Neal
Publisher : Toby Neal
ISBN 13 : 9781732771253
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freckled written by Tw Neal and published by Toby Neal. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.Born in 1965 to hippie surfer parents who just want to ride waves, use substances, and hide from society, red-headed Toby grows up as one of only a few hundred Caucasian "haole" people on the rugged, beautiful North Shore of Kauai, Hawaii.Toby's idealistic parents, breaking away from high achieving families, struggle with mental health and addiction issues as they try to live according to their own rules. Despite the hardship and deprivations of life on Kauai, they return again and again to an island whose hold on them is more powerful than any drug.Told from the immersive, first-person view of a child experiencing turbulent times as they occur, Freckled will take you on a journey you won't soon forget as Toby catches an octopus with her bare hands to feed the family, careens on her first bike down a rugged dirt trail deep in the jungle, and makes money by selling magic mushrooms to a drug dealer. Living in tents and off the land without electricity or communication with the outside world, Toby escapes into reading and imagination to deal with racial harassment and indifferent parenting. Sensitive, imaginative, and resilient,like a surfer girl Anne of Green Gables. Toby clings to a dream of academic achievement and a "normal" life. "Neal's prose is often effortless and elegant." ~Kirkus Reviews

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573062060
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Creating Hawai'i Tourism written by Robert C. Allen and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his memoir Creating Hawai'i Tourism, Robert C. Allen, a leader in the tourism-related ground transportation, airline, hotel, and cruise industries, describes the events and people that transformed Hawai'i from a small resort into a world-class tourist mecca. Allen includes them all: the hotels, airlines, travel agents, beachboys, musicians, and, most important, the builders, the men and women who propelled Hawai'i to the forefront of the visitor industry.

Author : Tara Bray Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141658742X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book West of Then written by Tara Bray Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii. At the center of West of Then is Karen Morgan—island flower, fifth generation haole (white) Hawaiian, Mayflower descendant—now living on the streets of downtown Honolulu. Despite her recklessness, Karen inspires fierce loyalty and love in her three daughters. When she goes missing in the spring of 2002, Tara, the eldest, sets out to find and hopefully save her mother. Her journey explores what you give up when you try to renounce your past, whether personal, familial, or historical, and what you gain when you confront it. A tender story that lays bare the anguish, candor, and humor of growing up a half-step off the beat, West of Then is a striking literary debut from a perceptive and original writer. By turns tough and touching, Smith's modern detective story unravels the rich history of the fiftieth state and the realities of contemporary Hawaii—its sizable homeless population, its drug subculture—as well as its generous, diverse humanity and astonishing beauty. In this land of so many ghosts, the author's search for her mother becomes a reckoning with herself, her family, and with the meaning of home.

Author : Chris McKinney
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641292407
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Midnight, Water City written by Chris McKinney and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is under threat, so after years without contact, she reaches out to her former head of security, who has since become a police detective. When he arrives at her deep-sea home and finds Akira methodically dismembered, this detective will risk everything—his career, his family, even his own life—and delve back into his shared past with Akira to find her killer. With a rich, cinematic voice and burning cynicism, Midnight, Water City is both a thrilling neo-noir procedural and a stunning exploration of research, class, climate change, the cult of personality, and the dark sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of progress.

Author : Sanford Ballard Dole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Memoirs of the Hawaiian Revolution written by Sanford Ballard Dole and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : TW Neal
Publisher : Neal Enterprises INC
ISBN 13 : 1732771200
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freckled written by TW Neal and published by Neal Enterprises INC. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal’s personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise. We never call it homeless. We’re just camping in the jungle on Kauai... We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but we’ve been camping for six months, eating boiled chicken feed for breakfast, and wearing camouflage clothes so no one sees us trespassing in our jungle hideout. The cockroaches leave rainbow colors all over everything from eating the crayons we left outside the tent, and now a tractor is coming to scrape our camp into the river. Standing in front of the tent in my nightgown, clinging to my sister as we face the tractor, I know my own truth: I just want to be normal. But Mom and Pop are addicted. Addicted to Kauai’s beauty, to drugs, to surfing, to living a life according to their own rules out from under their high-achieving parents’ judgmental eyes. I’m just their red-headed, mouthy oldest kid. What I want doesn’t matter. But I’m smart. I will make a different life for myself someday if I keep up my grades no matter what happens. No matter how often we run out of food. No matter how many times I change schools...or don’t go to school at all. No matter how many bullies beat me up for the color of my skin. I might be growing up wild in Hawaii, but I have dreams I’m going to reach, no matter how crazy things get. ★★ Gold Winner in Memoir/Autobiography for eLit Book Awards 2019 ★★ ★★ First Place in non-fiction for the 2019 Indie Reader Discovery Awards! ★★ ★★ Winner for Memoir in the 13th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards ★★ ★★ NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Women's Interest Winner 2019 ★★ “An affecting and riveting chronicle of a singular childhood that evokes the contradictions of hippie utopian ideals in an unspoiled Hawaiian landscape long since lost.” ~Kirkus Reviews "A celebration of the best within each of us as well as a witness of human frailty and resilience, T.W. Neal’s memoir is a must-read!" ~Lehua Parker, author of One Boy, No Water "As much a meditation on inner strength as it is on family dynamics, T.W. Neal's gorgeous memoir Freckled isn't one to be missed. I read it two great gulps, and I can still see the palm fronds swaying above a girl who wouldn't give up. Highly recommended." - Rachael Herron, author of Fast-Draft Your Memoir: Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours

Author : Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hawaii's Story written by Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: