It might be love at first page!
Aloha & welcome to our Blind Date with a Book event! We selected books from a variety of genres, wrapped them up, and wrote personal ads to get you to check them out. Give our books a chance! They came highly recommended. Our book dating service will end Friday, February 26th.
*Leeward IDs are required to participate in Blind Date with a Book
After you return your book date, Rate Your Date at go.hawaii.edu/62J or in the box below.
9 years / UK What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart? I’ve shown Will Traynor that he can love again but why won't he believe me? Please take me on a date so I can feel alive again! |
47 years / New York, USA The epic battle between man and the sea! Are you sure it’s safe to go into the water? Follow me on a wild ocean ride searching for a giant killer far out to the sea. We’ll be the dream team! |
10 years / Westeros I like to escape into different worlds of magic! Throw in a knight, a lady, flying dragons, and a throne everyone desires! Let's discover the best way to plot and take over this amazing world! |
12 years / Sweden Are you into solving mysteries that are 40 years old? Do you enjoy slowly entangling the web of lies families spin until the real truth is discovered? Together, find out what happened to poor 8-year-old Harriet Vanger! |
52 years / Arizona, USA No! I came home and everyone in my town is dead! It looks like they just dropped dead at whatever they were doing? I only hear a baby crying! We need to find out what happened to my family! |
1 year / Louisiana & California, USA We grew up as identical twins in Mallard, Louisiana, but our individual choices pulled us apart, taking us in very different directions. Will we ever see one another again? If you're a good listener, we'd love to share with you our divergent stories of identity, race, family, and legacy. |
1 year / Mexico Wanted: Travel-seeker looking for a thrilling trip to Mexico to share accommodations in our |
1 year / India If your definition of intrigue combines a terrorist attack, a questionable arrest, political opportunism, and the making of the next big star, then light a match and follow me as I take you to a story more explosive than new year's eve. |
1 year / Ohio, USA Girl wizard seeks a witness to impart the magic we all have running through us. I may be a YA (young adult) read, but I offer valuable lessons that I hope you find meaningful and transformative. |
2 years / California & New York, USA A real Asian American mama seeking those with a bold and risque sense of humor. I will read you my letters to my kin as I reflect on all I've learned through my life so far...LOL! |
2 years / California, USA Is race the final frontier?...These are my true voyages from childhood wartime incarceration to trailblazing Hollywood fame. |
1 year / India Where did all my friends go? Can you help me find them? There's someone or something lurking in the shadows, and I'm going to find it. Will you join me in unravelling the mystery before I find myself missing too? |
2 years / Hawaiʻi In a pandemic creative cooking rut? Explore new/old comfort food cooking skills with me. I'll show you new and old ways to prepare local Hawaiʻi foods that will make staying at home a culinary experience! |
2 years / Hawaiʻi Ready to challenge your ideas about Hawaiʻi? It may be easy to get caught up in the idea of Hawaiʻi as a paradise. Pick me up and you'll go on a journey towards a nuanced and realistic view of what Hawaiʻi is to those who are ancestrally connected to the land and the culture of Hawaiʻi. Hear from many voices that tell stories of Hawaiʻi as a complex, beautiful place, but maybe not what you had imagined. |
29 years / Aotearoa One magical moment between three young cousins connected us, but when we all grow up, our lives go very separate ways. We three take you on our individual journeys, and you'll see how contemporary New Zealand life has impacted us all in ways we could never have imagined as children. Read me now before the movie version of our story comes out in 2021. |
11 years / Sāmoa Nestled in the heart of the Pacific is Samoa, we walk to a different drum beat. Meet the main character, Leila, destined to find her roots in her homeland, but is it ever that easy? I bring you a fiery romance filled with Pacific mythologies that forces Leila to choose between her birthright, or love. |
2 years / Hawaiʻi A biographical look at one of the most influential and well-known Hawaiian historians of our time. Read about his life spent in servitude to both an old ways and new ways of ruling a kingdom spaning the rule of Kamehameha I through the Hawaiian Kingdom era. His contributions to the cannon of Hawaiian knowledge are invaluable and his life story reflects the incredible impact his work has left us with today. |
1 year / Camp Outland Hi! My real name is Randy. I'm 16 years old and about to go back to summer camp. Everyone will be so surprised! I gave up nail polish, showtunes, and my unicorn bedsheets #crying but I changed my name to "Del" and I've become buff and masculine! The guy I'm in love with only likes "masc" guys and I WILL MAKE HIM NOTICE ME THIS YEAR! I may need your help, though, so please pick me up! |
1 year / The Sea In order to survive, I had to assume the life of a man to gain the respect and protection of the crew. If you want to read a tale of pirates, mermaids, and magic, I am the one for you! |
1 year / Never Land I caught Peter Pan's shadow and I've been waiting for him to come back for it. It's been 4 years and I need to see him now more than ever! My parents want me to become a governess in Ireland and I refuse to go! Can you help me escape? |
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