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New releases by Hawaii authors

"Rebel With A Dream From Hawaii -- The Incredible Journey of Senator Richard M. Matsuura, An Autobiography" by Richard M. Matsuura and and Ruth Hase Matsuura (Orchid Isle Publishing, no price listed)

"Angel Lost, Angel Found" by Mary Medeiros (Vantage Press, $15.95)

Reviewed by Burl Burlingame
bburlingame@starbulletin.com

"Rebel With A Dream From Hawaii -- The Incredible Journey of Senator Richard M. Matsuura, An Autobiography"
This high-quality memoir will surprise those who recall Matsuura as a fearless and somewhat swashbuckling reformer in the Hawaii State Senate, because the last two decades of his life are covered here as a footnote. The bulk of the work is taken up with his conversion to Methodism and his missionary work in India through the 1960s, a country that had a great hold on his heart and imagination.

"Angel Lost, Angel Found"
Medeiros, a retired Honolulu deputy sheriff, is apparently a fan of those big sprawling multi-genrational romances in which the beautiful heroine overcomes waves of adversity to become rich and famous, only to lose it because of cruel fate. Well! It's all here!

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