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Award winning YA authors visit Honolulu for 'Celebrate Reading Festival'

Celebrate Reading is an annual event sponsored by the UH Manoa English Department, the Hawaii Writing Project and the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. In the past, it has attracted prominent guest authors like Orson Scott Card (Ender...

Coming soon: national book releases from Hawaii authors

Big Island author, Darien Gee (aka Mia King) has a new book coming out this Spring from national publisher Ballantine Books. Friendship Bread is her fourth novel and will be in stores April 19th! How can a loaf of...

Hawaii author Alexei Melnick's "Tweakerville" is one of the best local books of 2010

Tweakerville (Mutual Publishing, 2010) is a story told through the distinct narrative voice of a young man named Jesse Gomes—he speaks in an amalgam of local Pidgin, drug culture vernacular, and modern teenage lingo. Jesse is a seventeen...

First Book and Target donate over 4,000 new books to Oahu schools

First Book and Target are partnering up and giving away 1 MILLION new books to schools across the nation. Target's Read With Me campaign was officially launched at the beginning of October to get parents and kids to...

Film critic and author visits Hawaii for film festival and book signing

Rice is a central part of our food culture here in Hawaii and no home is complete without a rice cooker. It's so common and so important to our way of life, kids in Hawaii usually learn how...

Hawaii wins 20,000 new books in the First Book Cheerios Trivia Contest

In an online contest that lasted over four months, Hawaii managed to rank #4 out of five top states to receive a portion of the 100,000 book prize sponsored by Cheerios and First Book national. At the beginning of...

Biggest book sale of the year

The 63rd Annual Friends of the Library of Hawaii Book Sale is starting this weekend June 19th--27th. It’s Honolulu’s biggest book sale of the year and a prominent week for the local literary community since...

Children's Literature Hawaii Conference on "Inventing Worlds Imaginary, and Real"

The University of Hawai'i's nonprofit organization Children's Literature Hawaii is hosting it's 15th Biennial Conference on literature and Hawaii's children from June 17th to June 19th, 2010 at the Manoa...

Summer reading programs focus on 'Twilight' saga and more

The Hawaii State Public Library System’s popular Summer Reading programs are back! Visit your local library to join one of the five-week programs, from JUNE 1 to JULY 2, 2010. Read at least one book per week...

5th Annual Hawaii Book and Music Expo

Each year a massive festival dedicated to books and music is held on the expansive yard of the Frank Fasi Civic Grounds at Honolulu Hale. It's a big affair with several stage areas for concerts, author readings, book...

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