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(0)Alan Brennert
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Moloka'I volume 2
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"This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama--quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa--was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp during...
2) Moloka'i
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"Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. In her exile she finds a family of friends...
3) Honolulu
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When a young Korean girl known as Regret leaves her homeland for a better life in Hawaii, as a "picture bride," she expects to find prosperity and a chance at education. But the rich husband she is promised turns out to be a poor plantation worker with drinking and gambling problems, and the girl now known as Jin is forced to seek her own path. Joining with her fellow picture brides to start a business, Jin must shed her naieveté and overcome prejudice...
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2013.
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Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey-especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade...
6) Molokaʻi
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
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"Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Molokaʻi. Here her life is supposed to end - but instead she discovers it is only just beginning"--Publisher's description....
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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The Aloha State enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochure. Locations mentioned include Waikiki, Kahlihi, Kaka'ako, Ala Wai, Diamond Head, Punahou, Downtown, Kapalama, Ala Moana, Chinatown, Manoa, Tantalus, and Koko Head. Summary derived by cataloger.
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
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See a world of Marvels through fresh eyes. A quarter of a century ago, writer Kurt Busiek and painter Alex Ross gave you a new perspective on your heroes with the groundbreaking, Marvels. Now Busiek invites some of the industry's most distinctive voices to do it all over again. Featuring stories set throughout the history of the House of Ideas, starring the everyday people living in the age of the extraordinary, these are the Marvels Snapshots!
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc
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2023.
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Daredevil enters a new era as the iconoclastic Dennis O'Neil takes over the writing reins! Making sure the transition goes from strength to strength, the incomparable Klaus Janson remains aboard for a stint penciling, inking and coloring. Each tale is a gritty exploration of humankind's temptations and broken aspirations - topped off with a touch of Marvel magic. Meanwhile, the Kingpin consorts with a Yakuza group who seek to bond Bullseye's shattered...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Some of DC's most popular titles from the 1990s were published under the Elseworlds banner, which recast DC's heroes in strange settings, with reimagined histories. The Elseworlds comics included some of DC's perennial sellers, such as Kingdom Come and Superman: Red Son. Now, for the first time, DC collects the Elseworlds tales that have never been in book form before, starring Batman, Superman, the Justice League of America, Wonder Woman and more!"--...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Dracula has descended upon Gotham City - and he's brought his deadly children of the night with him. Now, it's up to Batman to stop the Lord of the Undead's assault on his city - but after being bitten by Dracula, Batman himself joins the ranks of the undead. Will Batman be an even greater threat to the citizens of Gotham City than Dracula?
