The Kaua'i Obake Bar


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Looking for something a little off the beaten path? You just found it. Come on in to Primoas Bar. Just off the Kuhio Highway, in the town of Kapaaa on Kauaai, and down a dusty street, sits Primoas Bar. A refuge for the hard-working common man, the last Menehune on the island, some local obakes, and the occasional drop-in goddess of the volcano. Be sure to leave some room in case any Night Marchers drop by. Come on in and pull up a stool. Have some pupus with your beer. Itas Talk Story Time!




The Old Queen's Treasure


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This is the 3rd book in the Kohala Coast Thriller series. Ka iwi, the bones of ancestors, bring the Pono Family together with outsiders who do not share their reverence for the departed. Greed and ambition lead to murder most foul.For maximum enjoyment, read all three books (so far) in this series and prepare yourself for the next book "The Old Queen's Guardian", due out Spring, 2009.




The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden


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In this 5th book of the Kohala Coast Mystery/Thriller series, Teri Pono is sent to Maui by the spirit of Queen Ka'ahumanu to intervene on behalf of a long-dead Maui Maiden. Teri's efforts to put the Maiden to rest are opposed by others who see the mummified Maiden as a source of great wealth. In this story, Teri comes closer to death than ever before. As if she doesn't have enough to worry about, Teri's mother, Haunani, seems to be descending even further into the black hole of Alzheimer's disease. A thrilling addition to this series.




THE OLD QUEEN and THE KING


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A brief love affair produces a child. A child that later brings tremendous grief to her mother. The mother seeks out the murderer of her only child and in doing so travels from Kauai over to the Big Island. There the women of the Pono family get involved by trying to help the mother find her daughter's killer.




The Old Queen's Murder


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This is the second book in the Kohala Coast Thriller series about the Pono family. The Pono family has, for generations, guarded the secret hiding place of the bones of King Kamehameha's favorite wife, Queen Ka'ahumanu. Having just recently endured the loss of three family members, the Pono Family finds even more of a threat when a serial killer arrives in the islands and picks the matriarch of the family as his next victim.




The Bones of the Kuhina Nui


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For generations on The Big Island of Hawai'i a family has guarded the secret hiding place of the bones of the Kuhina Nui, the favorite wife of King Kamehameha. But now jealousy and envy couple with greed to produce murder. The family is torn apart and may never be whole again.




Obake


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Da Kine Talk


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Hawaii is without parallel as a crossroads where languages of East and West have met and interacted. The varieties of English (including neo-pidgin) heard in the Islands today attest to this linguistic and cultural encounter. "Da kine talk" is the Island term for the most popular of the colorful dialectal forms--speech that captures the flavor of Hawaii's multiracial community and reflects the successes (and failures) of immigrants from both East and West in learning to communicate in English.




Obake


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This collection of twelve ghost stories leads readers into a world of obake, supernatural creatures, fireballs, choking ghosts at the University of Hawai'i dormitories the "faceless woman" of the Waialae Drive-in Theater, the "green lady" of Wahiawa, the mo'o wahine or supernatural lizard woman, inugami or dog spirit possession, mysterious occurrences in Kaimuki and Kipapa and other "chicken skin" encounters in Hawai'i. Invisible Ink calls this book true in spirit to the many ghostly traditions of the Islands.




The 1924 Filipino Strike on Kauai


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