Isle Pages

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"Healing Vacations in Hawaii -- Big Island Edition" By Susanne Sims, Watermark, $16.95

"Healing Vacations" is a guide to various health practitioners on the Big Island, illustrated with insightful and cheerful portraits and landcapes. The emphasis is on alternative health, just in case you need to find an "Acrosage Inversion Therapy" specialist while motoring around Kohala.

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"A Literary Lei -- Flowers & Plants of Hawai'i" By Jim & Virginia Wageman, Watermark, $19.95

"Literary Lei" is a collection of splendid plant photos and pieces of literature they inspired by the plants. Not sure who it's aimed at, but it sure is pretty.

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"Lessons Learned -- On the Corner in Kalihi" By Wesley T. Park, Watermark, $12.95

Business executive Park's epigrams in "Lessons Learned" distill a lifetime of common sense into a volume of deceptively simple declarations. There's nothing here but pith, but it's good, wise pith.