"The Haiku Murders: A Lieutenant Liebes in Honolulu Mystery," by Neil M. Levy (Red Oak Tree
Press, $9.99): The author, a Berkeley law professor, tries his hand at a mystery novel. His protagonist, a Brooklyn Jew working in homicide on the Honolulu
police force, is in hot pursuit of a serial killer who provides clues to his murders in haiku form. Oh, and Liebes has a Native Hawaiian partner by the name of Hoku.
"A Dramatically Different Direction," by Margaret Mann (CreateSpace, $1
2.99): The longtime activist offers her perspective on life and insights on being disabled in this autobiography. Mann, who was paralyzed in 1997, calls herself "a 66-year-old, biracial, lesbian Buddhist in a wheelchair."
"The Maui Quest," by D.W.M. Beck (CreateSpace, $14.99): A coming-of-age novel about a young man who travels to the Valley Isle to deliver his father’s ashes back to his family home. There he finds himself in search of a valuable artifact that might be hidden near an ancestral altar.
"Sea of Fire," by Gregory Shepherd (Kindle ebook, 99 cents): The Kauai auth
or offers up a fictional spy thriller set in North Korea, as a CIA operative goes on a search-and-kill mission for a former buddy gone missing who was supposed to pose as a South Korean defector with a "state secret" that the country and its allies are prepared for retaliation in response to Northern aggression.
"Island Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Okinawa and Other Pacific Islands in a Globalized World," by Hiroshi Kakazu (Trafford Publishing, $31.45): Economist and university professor Kakazu focuses on small island economies with an emphasis on Okinawa. It examines socioeconomic concerns, development issues and networking of island societies, as well as the effects of culture, human resources, agriculture and tourism.
"Unwra
pped," by Jan Young (Kindle ebook, $2.99): Young, a Kailua resident and former Peace Corps worker, wrote this, her first novel, based on her experiences as a teacher living in the Middle East. A well-meaning American agrees to help a local women’s advocate who has a fatwa issued against her. The American woman senses that she, too, is being watched by the extremists who have been harassing her new friend.
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