Isle Pages

Releases from Hawaii authors

		"Nowhere Near Molokai" By Gary Chang Bear Star Press, $12 Poetry -- yeah, the oh-so-sensitive stuff about flowers and sunsets and damaged feelings. Chang's work, however, is brilliant and sharply worded, and deals with his awful job as a killer of wild dogs for the park system. In this case, poetry gets right to the complex and dark heart of the matter.
		"Tropical Bob's Inside Scoop on Hawaii" By "Tropical Bob" Kasher Perpetual Summer, $15.95 The print-on-demand explosion not only puts real books in the hands of tiny publishers, it makes it possible to quickly update references in which changes are the norm. Written by a Hawaiian, this title, the first of a series, is aimed at getting the tourist off the bus and into the swing of Hawaiian life, with fair success, and it can only get better.