"Sharing Tradition, Story and Language" is the theme, with sessions on pidgin, Hawaiian literature, presenting profound evil to child readers, the picture books of Maurice Sendak and more.

Registration $20, will be held at the Hawaiian Regent Hotel in Waikiki and at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

For more information, call 956-7559.

He also appears at Barnes & Noble, Kahala, 3 p.m. Sunday; Honolulu Book Shops, Bishop Square, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and June 14; Honolulu Book Shops, Ala Moana, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 15; and Borders, Ward Centre, 2 p.m. June 15.

Lois Dement offers her book about death, "Infinity: A Journey Into the Light," 2 p.m. Saturday at Borders, Waikele.

H. Stanley Jones, author of "Quality of Life," talks about "Achieving Balance in an Unbalanced World," 1 p.m. Sunday at Borders, Ward Centre.

The book "Quality" provides guidelines for enjoying family, community, education, career, finances, health, leisure and spirituality.

Writer Lois Lowry and illustrator Trina Schart Hyman discuss their award-winning work in children's literature, 1 p.m. June 14 at Borders, Ward Centre.

Lowry, who was born in Honolulu, is author of "A Summer to Die," "Number the Stars" and "The Giver."

Hyman illustrated "Saint George and the Dragon."

The Romance Readers Circle meets 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Borders, Waikele. Selections include "An Unlikely Angel," "The Shattered Rose," "Then Came You," "Mystic Moon" and "Wizard of Seattle."

How-to book describes the author's philosophy of achievement with applications for goals in areas from business to weight loss. Anecdotes accompany problem-solving approaches, with graphs to goad you to start.

Martin is owner of Success Dynamics, which provides customer service, sales training and employee motivation programs. He plans to release a second book, "Retail Selling Made Easy," sometime this summer.

The book carries endorsements by several Hawaii business leaders, including environmental artist Wyland.

"Blood of Patriots": Neil Abercrombie and Richard Hoyt, $24.95, 351 pages, Forge

This political fiction novel opens with terrorists invading the Capitol on the day that members of Congress are set to vote on a controversial policy for replacing paper currency with plastic. For maverick agent James Burlane, a former CIA man commissioned to uncover the identity and motives of the conspirators, the investigation begins with the consequences of traceable money.

Hoyt, a former counterintelligence agent, is the author of "Tyger! Tyger!" and "Snake Eyes." He has teamed with the congressman from Hawaii to create a story about militias, political donations and the U.S. government.

"God and Mammon: Chronicles of a Connecticut Family": Alfred M. Bingham, Abeel & Leet

This is a family biography of the sternly religious, impoverished Binghams, who founded the first Protestant mission in Hawaii, and shows how their inheritance of the Tiffany fortune affected their lives.

Spanning two centuries, the book describes the intertwining of the Bingham and Tiffany families - "a cataclysm of the forces of God and Mammon" - and the tragic, often scandalous, fortunes of their descendants.

The author, a writer, attorney and former legislator who is now in his 90s, is the great grandson of Charles Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co., and of the Rev. Hiram Bingham, who translated the Bible into Hawaiian. Among his other books are "Portrait of an Explorer:Hiram Bingham, Discoverer of Machu Picchu." He also founded the magazine Common Sense.

These are best-selling books in Hawaii during April 1996. Figures are courtesy of the Hawaii Book Publishers Association and Book-lines distributors, and reflect sales by Hawaii-based publishers. A star () denotes a title that has been on the market at least five years or more; a number in parenthesis indicates a title's previous ranking.