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"We Go Jam: Celebrating Our Music, Our Soundscape, Our Hawai‘i"
(Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, $14.95)
An anthology edited by veteran journalist Susan Yim that illustrates the impact of music on our local culture through the decades. Contributors include Lee Tonouchi, Marie Hara, Jerry Santos and Aaron J. Sala.
"Confronting Alien Realities: The Life and Adventures of William ‘Bucky’ Buckley"
by John August (iRighti, $12.50)
The Volcano, Hawaii island, writer takes on an action/adventure novel about the wide-ranging life of a former U.S. Army military policeman who claims to have encountered UFOs.
"Valentina: An Odyssey from Pre-Revolutionary Russia Through War-Torn Europe to a Pacific Paradise"
by Emiko Lyovin (Trafford Publishing; $27.48; also ebook)
Originally published in Japanese in 1998, this update in English chronicles the life of the author’s mother-in-law, the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, who fled St. Petersburg during the Russian revolution and eventually settled in Hawaii. Lyovin, a retired Punahou School teacher, married Valentina’s youngest son, retired University of Hawaii linguistics professor Anatole Lyovin, who became pastor of Honolulu’s Russian Orthodox community.
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