“In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents’ feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another called Pity. As for me, my parents named me Regret.”
Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young “picture bride” who journeys to Hawai’i in 1914 in search of a better life.
Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today. But paradise has its dark side, whether it’s the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu’s tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands’ history…
With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawai’i far off the tourist track, Honolulu is most of all the spellbinding tale of four women in a new world, united by dreams, disappointment, sacrifices, and friendship.
This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai’i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place—and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.
“We were just talking… and the next second, we’re in a world war.” That’s how a U.S. seaman remembers December 7, 194 — a Sunday morning that began like any other and ended with 2,403 Americans dead, thousands more wounded, and the nation at war.
Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side youre on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death.In the You Choose Books set, only YOU can CHOOSE which path you take through history. What will it be? Get ready for an adventure.
December 7, 1941: A morning like any other, but the events of this day would leave no one untouched.
In their hope to restore Hawaii¹s toppled monarchy and the Hawaiian way of life the people of Hawaii turn to Princess Kaiulani, who is only a young girl. Acclaimed author Ellen Emerson White makes her debut on the Royal Diaries list with this compelling narrative of the tumultuous years following Hawaii¹s forced annexation to the United States, skillfully rendering the voice of the young princess and the unrest of a people. 
Every one in town had given up on Ben Logan except his mother and a girl named Hanna. Ben enlists in the navy to avoid going to jail and there meets a man who changes his mind about life and God. When the bombs begin to fall at Pearl Harbor, Ben finds out what it really means to trust God through the flames.
Due to jealousies within his Hawaiian tribe Paka’a is exiled, but his son strives to restore him to his former position as special guardian of the king.
Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty.
Nineteen native stories or legends from the Hawaiian islands. With decorative cuts. “Powerfully imagined, rich in character and atmosphere.”–NY Herald Tribune
