Iida will also visit Borders, Ward Centre, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Gary Fitzpatrick and Riley Moffat present "Surveying the Mahele," a historic account of the transfer of land from Hawaiian nobility to private owners, 1 p.m. Sunday at Borders, Ward Centre.

The other guest lecturers, playwright Darrell Lum and creative nonfiction writer Gretel Ehrlich, will read from their current works 7 p.m. Saturday at Cooper Center on Wright Road. These readings are free. Call the Volcano Art Center at 967-8222, Big Island.

"Women's Night" delves into perspectives outside the mainstream with Marie Hara, Lorna Hershinow and Michelle Cruz Skinner, 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Leeward Community College, Room LA-229.

Hara, Japanese-Irish author of "Bananaheart and Other Stories," received the 1995 Cades Award for Literature for her promise as an emerging artist. Hershinow's fiction, based on her experiences growing up as a female and a Jew in apartheid South Africa, has been published in literary magazines and anthologies such as "Sister Stew." Skinner, an immigrant from the Philippines, is the author of "Balikbayan and Other Stories" and the soon-to-be published "Mango Seasons."

Copies of their works will be available for purchase. The free reading is sponsored by the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council, the UH-Manoa Women's Center and Leeward Community College. Call T.M. Lafferty at 455-0431.

Hedi Kyle, a visiting artist at the University of Hawaii Summer Session, will discuss her methods and purposes in designing and transforming the "architecture" of the traditional book. She will show slides of her constructions, and books by other contemporary artists. The free lecture will be in the UH-Manoa Art Auditorium.

Kyle will teach a book arts course at the university and jury the Honolulu Printmakers' book arts exhibition "Turning the Page." Call the Printmakers at 536-5507.

Saul will conduct a fiction workshop using the Top 10 manuscripts submitted for critique.

Among conference participants will be more than 30 agents and publishers. Registration is $425 through July 15; $495 after. For a free brochure, write to: MWC, P.O. Box 968, Kihei 96753. Or call 879-0061, Maui. The MWC website is http://www.maui.com/~sbdc/writers. E-mail address: mauicon@aol.com.

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.