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Hawaii-interest releases
"They Followed the Trade Winds -- African-Americans in Hawai'i"
Edited by Miles M. Jackson
Social Process in Hawai'i, $18
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Just in time for Black History Month, this latest edition from the UH Sociology department features incisiveessays about the history of blacks in Hawaii, which apparently isn't as race-blind as we'd pretend it is.
"Forever Scarred and Other Poems"
By Kathryn Akioka
Vantage, $8.95
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Sometimes vanity press is the only way to go when you're a poet at heart and mean-spirited book-publishing people won't look at your work. Akioka finds that poetry either heals or is cheap therapy.
"USS Charles Carroll APA 28 -- An Amphibious History of World War II"
By Kenneth H. Goldman
Trafford, $23.95
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Clunkiness of the POD typography regimen aside, this is a valuable addition to the history of America's "gator navy." The author also makes it highly readable, as he has a primary source -- his father served on APA 28!
