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Isle Pages

New releases from
Hawaii authors

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"The Discovery of the Palau Islands" By Dr. Paul W. Dale Rosedog, $17

Of course, it's actually the "European" discovery of Palau under discussion here. Dale has bowdlerized and simplified a 1700s account of the islands' first major contact with the West, making it easy to read, if not too authentic in tone and flavor.

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"The Hawaiian Bat, Ope'ape'a" By Marion Coste, art by Pearl Maxner University of Hawaii Press, $12.95

A pleasant, if somewhat wordy, book for kids with easily digestible biology science courtesy advisor Theresa Cabrera Manard.

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"Visual Maul" and "Visual Hawai'i" Photographs by Douglas Peebles Mutual Publishing, $22.95

There are credits here for "text" by Jessica Ferracane and Derek Paiva, but I guess they're talking about the captions on Peebles' endless supply of pretty pictures. Although these are nice books, they all seem to blur together after awhile.