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Pittsfield - CELEBRATING NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE
Townsend Eclectic Book Club
Webster - Native American Heritage Month Adult Titles
Townsend Eclectic Book Club
Webster - Native American Heritage Month Adult Titles
Description
"A groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation"--
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking...
2) The Haumāna
Publisher
Hula Nation Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Johnny Kealoha is the charismatic host of a struggling Polynesian luau show for tourists. To everyone's surprise, including his own, he is appointed as the successor to a high school hula class when his former Kumu Hula (master hula teacher) passes away. He becomes as much a student as a teacher through the demands of leading the boys to a significant hula performance and rediscovers the sanctity of the culture he previously abandoned.
