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Best Seller -  Sunrise on the reaping
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  How to sell out : the (hidden) cost of being a Black writer
Spring 2025 Best Seller - Mother of Rome
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  The life of Herod the Great : a novel
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  Immortal
Spring 2025 Best Sellers - Greater secrets
Spring 2025 Best Seller - Call me Iggy
Spring 2025 Best Seller - Lunar New Year love story
Spring 2025 Best Seller - Disposable : America's contempt for the underclass
Spring 2025 Best Sellers -  Original sins : the (mis)education of Black and Native children and the construction of American racism
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  Onyx storm
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  Everything I learned about racism I learned in school
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  I was told there would be romance
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  Exiled by iron : a novel
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  The diamond explorer
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  The black bird oracle : a novel
Spring 2025 Best Seller - Lies and weddings : a novel
Spring 2025 Best Seller - Another word for love : a memoir
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  The Black box : writing the race
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  Ghost roast
Spring 2025 Best Seller -  Gone wolf
Spring 2025 Best Seller - I will scream to the world
 The voyage home : a novel
All princesses die before dawn
Court of the vampire queen
Sonny boy : a memoir
American ghoul
Masquerade
The melancholy of untold history : a novel
 At the end of the River Styx
Fall 2024 Best Seller - John Lewis : a life
Fall 2024 Best Seller -  From here to the great unknown : a memoir
Fall 2024 Best Seller -  Something lost, something gained : reflections on life, love, and liberty
Fall 2024 Best Seller -  Connie : a memoir
Fall 2024 Best Seller -  Lovely one : a memoir
Fall 2024 Best Seller -  The art of power : my story as America's first woman Speaker of the House
Fall 2024 Best Seller -  Nine tailed
Fall 2024 Best Seller - Goddess of the river
Fall 2024 Best Seller - The message
Fall 2024 Best Seller - It ends with us

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New Print Books, E-Books, & Audiobooks

Print book - ʻŌlelo ʻōiwi : Hawaiian language fundamentals
Print book - Frostbite : how refrigeration changed our food, our planet, and ourselves
Print book - The light eaters : how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth
Print book -  A field guide to blackwater diving in Hawaiʻi
Print Book - Answering why
eBook -  Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI : A Universal Design for Learning Approach
Print Book - War
Print Book -  Flavorama : a guide to unlocking the art and science of flavor
Print Book -  Infinite life : the revolutionary story of eggs, evolution and life on earth
Print Book - Good to go : what the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery
Print Book - Up to speed : the groundbreaking science of women athletes
Print Book - Tides : the science and spirit of the ocean
Print Book - Coral reefs : a natural history
Print Book - Hawaii's Birds
Print Book - Hawaii: Interlink Traveller's Wildlife Guide
Print Book - Field guide to birds of Hawaii
New Print Book -  Dialogues with a trickster : on the margins of myth and ethnography in the Marshall Islands
New Print Book -  The missing thread : a women's history of the ancient world
New Print Book -  Madame Restell : the life, death, and resurrection of old New York's most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist
New Print Book -  The world : a family history of humanity
New Book - The city and its uncertain walls
New Book -  The playbook : a story of theater, democracy, and the making of a culture war
New Book - Emperor of Rome : ruling the ancient Roman world
eBook -  Flashpoint Epistemology. Volume 1, Arts and Humanities-Based Rethinkings of Interconnection, Technologies, and Education
eBook -  Hands-on large language models : language understanding and generation
eBook - The study skills handbook
eBook -  Thinking with type : a critical guide for designers, writers, editors, and students
eBook -  The Writing Revolution 2. 0 : A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades
eBook - Using generative AI effectively in higher education : sustainable and ethical practices for learning, teaching and assessment
eBook -  Cosmic connections : poetry in the age of disenchantment
eBook - How Do We Learn? : A Scientific Approach to Learning and Teaching (Evidence-Based Education)
eBook -  The 15-minute city : a solution to saving our time & our planet
eBook -  Social media and adolescent health
eBook - Essentials of supply chain management
eBook - Identity politics
eBook - Psychedelics and Mental Health : Therapeutic Applications and Neuroscience of Psilocybin, Lsd, Dmt and Mdma
eBook - Booster Shots : The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
eBook - Experience Nature Unplugged : A Guide to Wellness in the Digital Age
eBook -  The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy : And the Path to a Shared American Future
eBook - The Woodward Trilogy : fear, rage, and peril
eBook - The Weight of Nature : How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
eBook -  Becoming Earth : How Our Planet Came to Life
eBook - The Art of the SNL Portrait.
eBook -  White too long : the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity
eBook -  Unreliable watchdog : the news media and U.S. foreign policy
eBook - Decolonizing Christianity : becoming badass believers
 An African history of Africa : from the dawn of humanity to independence
The empusium : a health resort horror story
 The secret lives of numbers : a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers
 King : a life
Orbital : a novel
On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe
God : an anatomy
Spring 2025 New Book -  The mana of translation : translational flow in Hawaiian history from the Baibala to the mauna
Spring 2025 New Book -  Navigating islands : plays from the Pacific
Spring 2025 New Book -  Finding home : a Hawaiian petrel's journey
eBook:  Parable of the Sower: the graphic novel
eBook: Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge
eBook: Tales of Polynesia : Folktales from Hawai'I, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa.
eBook: Mele on the Mauna : Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea
eBook: When women ruled the Pacific : power and politics in nineteenth-century Tahiti and Hawai'i
eBook:  Victoria Ward and the Gilded Age of the Hawaiian Kingdom
eBook:  The Sugar King of California : The Life of Claus Spreckels.
Audiobook -  Shift : Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You
Audiobook -  Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people
Audiobook - How to be enough : self-acceptance for self-critics and perfectionists
Audiobook -  The lost queen : the surprising life of Catherine of Braganza-the forgotten queen who bridged two worlds
Audiobook - Night flyer : Harriet Tubman and the faith dreams of a free people
Audiobook - Silk : a world history
eBook - Fallen idols : twelve statues that made history
If you see them : young, unhoused, and alone in America
eBook -  Pox romana : the plague that shook the Roman world
eBook - Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I : the mother and daughter who forever changed British history
eBook -  I saw death coming : a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction
Audiobook - Portable Magic : A History of Books and Their Readers
eBook - The world the plague made : the Black Death and the rise of Europe
 Big, open and linked data : effects and value for the economy
 Settler militarism : World War II in Hawai'i and the making of US empire
 The anxious generation : how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Women money power : the rise and fall of economic equality
 Darwin and the art of botany : observations on the curious world of plants with artwork from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation
 US history in 15 foods
 The woman warrior ; China men ; Tripmaster monkey ; Hawai'i one summer ; other writings
 The $16 dollar taco : contested geographies of food, ethnicity, and gentrification
 Passing it on : a memoir
 Indigenous peoples : resource management and global rights
A history of disability and art education
In praise of failure : four lessons in humility
 Forward without fear : native Hawaiians and American education in territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941
 Hawai'i gold : a celebration of surfing
 Reckoning with restorative justice : Hawai'i women's prison writing
The hard sell of paradise : Hawai'i, Hollywood, tourism
The SAGE encyclopedia of Filipina/X/O American studies
 Fighting to Belong! : Asian American. Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander History from the 1700s Through The 1800s
Spring 2025 New Book -  20th Anniversary Veterans' Cookbook : recipes from the family and friends of the Go For Broke National Education Center
Spring 2025 New Book -  Kingdom of play : what ball-bouncing octopuses, belly-flopping monkeys, and mud-sliding elephants reveal about life itself
 Historical investigations in west Maui
Fall 2024 New Book - How to use ChatGPT (and other large language models) as a teaching assistant : a guidebook for higher education faculty
175 years at Washington Place
Fall 2024 New Book -  Our beaches were empty, our hospitals full : leadership stories from Hawaiʻiʼs unique pandemic response

March is Women's History Month!

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For Women's History Month, we honor the strength, resilience, and rich cultural legacies of women from Hawai'i and beyond. From the stories of Pele, Hi'iaka, and Keaomelemele to the voices of contemporary Indigenous scholars and activists like Haunani-Kay Trask and Noenoe K. Silva, they reflect the profound role women have played in shaping history, culture, and the world we live in.

Join us in celebrating these voices and their vital contributions to our understanding of history, identity, and resilience, uplifting the narratives of women who continue to shape the future.

Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Piʻikoi

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Prince Kūhiō was a revolutionary politician and activist for Hawaiʻi and the Kānaka Maoli community. Drop by the Learning Commons to browse our display celebrating his achievements!

The legacy of Prince Kuhio : aloha, aloha kamaʻaina
 Ancient sites of Kaua'i : a guide to Hawaiian archaeological and cultural places of interest
 Exploring lost Hawaiʻi : places of power, history, mystery & magic
 Hawaii 50 : five decades of photography : a community album
 Timeline Hawai'i : an illustrated chronological history of the islands
 ʻOnipaʻa : five days in the history of the Hawaiian nation : centennial observance of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy

February is Black History Month

Black History Month Display Flyer

 

This month is dedicated to powerful writers sharing their own stories and histories across fiction and nonfiction works.

"So my advice to other young writers: Read widely. Study other writers. Be thoughtful, Then go out and do the work of changing the form, finding your own voice, and saying what you need to say. Be fearless. And care."

- Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl

On book display: The 1619 Project : a new origin story
Book on display: We refuse to forget : a true story of Black Creeks, American identity, and power
Those who saw the Sun : African American oral histories from the Jim Crow South
Book on display: March. Book one
March. Book two
March : Book three
Book on display: Run. Book one
 Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
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The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
 Dear Black girls : how to be true to you
 Lovely one : a memoir
 A renaissance of our own : a memoir & manifesto on reimagining
 All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
 Finding me
The Black box : writing the race
 The house of hidden meanings : a memoir

Lunar New Year 2025: January 29

🐍 Year of the Snake 🐍

 

Drop by the Learning Commons to read your fortune!

All predictions were made by feng shui master Tong Pik-ha and paraphrased from South China Morning Post.