Cultural Region/Oceania
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The Battle of Midway
$22.99 Add to cartThere are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the … [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199315981
- Language: English
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Meet Maui (Disney Moana)
$5.99 Read moreWalt Disney Animation Studios’ Moana is a sweeping, CG-animated comedy-adventure about a spirited teenager on an impossible mission to fulfill her ancestors’ quest. In the ancient South Pacific world … [more below]
- Series: Pictureback(r)
- Author: Posner-Sanchez, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 073643738X
- Language: English
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Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures
$28.99 Add to cartIn this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and
- Series: New Oceania Literary
- Author: Jetñil-Kijiner, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0824891058
- Language: English
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Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen
$13.99 Add to cartHawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen is a moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii’s first and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights of her people.
Hawaii’s Story b
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Lili’uokalani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513271903
- Language: English
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Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific
$26.99 Read moreToday, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to H… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777257
- Language: English
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The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose
$18.99 Read moreA universal narrative on the significance of distance with love; remember to hold on to what you believe in. Ideal for those “whose love knows no bounds,” The Space Between Us is full of profound anec… [more below]
- Author: Peppernell, Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1524858277
- Language: English
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Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing
$21.00 Add to cartFrom surfer and writer Stuart Holmes Coleman, Eddie Would Go is the compelling story of Eddie Aikau’s legendary life and legacy, a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing, and an important chr
- Author: Coleman, Stuart Holmes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0312327188
- Language: English
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Ask the Brindled: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartAsk the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life–the body, a people, their language. It is a… [more below]
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Revilla, No’u
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1639550003
- Language: English
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The Last Aloha
$19.45 Add to cartIn 1886, following the tragic deaths of her father and her fianc?, Laura Jennings, alone in the world, travels to Hawaii to live with missionary relatives she’s never met. Laura imagines she’ll live i
- Author: Quinn, Gaellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1935448005
- Language: English
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Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
$25.00 Add to cart“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal . . . James D.] Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal nav
- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0553385127
- Language: English
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Honolulu
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of the “dazzling historical saga” (The Washington Post), Moloka’i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern
- Author: Brennert, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312606346
- Language: English
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Hawaii
$24.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaii… [more below]
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760377
- Language: English
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The New Animals
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the 2018 Acorn Prize, New Zealand’s highest fiction award, Pip Adam’s The New Animals is a work of artistic ambition and political urgency.
Set in the Auckland fashion scene in 2016, The New- Author: Adam, Pip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1948980177
- Language: English
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
$35.00 Add to cartA blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the
- Author: Thompson, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062060872
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
$18.99 Add to cart“Lobster is served three ways in this fascinating book: by fisherman, scientist and the crustaceans themselves. . . . Corson, who worked aboard commercial lobster boats for two years, weaves together
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Corson, Trevor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 10, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060555599
- Language: English
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Danger on the Reef
$8.99 Add to cartJasmine Lopez and her brother Arjun love exploring the coral reefs around Fiji, where their marine biologist parents are stationed. Jasmine, already a certified scuba diver, dreams of following in her… [more below]
- Series: Jake Maddox Adventure
- Author: Maddox, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496592069
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$27.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316296619
- Language: English
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The Way Back Home
$16.99 Read moreWhen a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things–your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The… [more below]
- Author: Peppernell, Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1524872113
- Language: English
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Self-Love for Small-Town Girls
$16.99 Add to cartSelf-Love for Small Town Girls is an exciting offering from beloved bestselling author Lang Leav. A collection of stunning poetry and prose that seeks to define the loaded question of what it means to… [more below]
- Author: Leav, Lang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1524878766
- Language: English
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest
$18.99 Add to cartOn November 21, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, the twenty-three-year-old son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of southwest New Guinea when his boat capsized. He was on a
- Author: Hoffman, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10, 2015
- ISBN10: 0062116169
- Language: English
