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The Hawaii Farmers Market Cookbook: Fresh Island Products from A to Z
Edited by Joan Namkoong and Hayley Matson-Mathes
Paperback, $13.95
Here’s a wonderful guide to over 75 locally grown meats, fruits and vegetables, including coffee, mahimahi, mango and other favorites as well as lesser known products such as raab, negi and moya. Descriptions, photos, recipes, shopping and preparation tips, product seasonality charts, profiles of top growers and a complete list of farmers markets statewide make this a must for foodies.

This is Not Your Parents’ Retirement:
A Revolutionary Guide to Investment for a Revolutionary Generation
Patrick Astre
Paperback, $19.95
You’re destined for a longer, more active retirement than any generation before you, and you want the cash to do it in style.
There’s a revolution afoot in retirement planning, and expert Astre divulges the investment secrets that create multiple income streams for life.

The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine are Destroying Your Health
Randall Fitzgerald
Hardcover, $24.95
Fitzgerald, an investigative journalist, shatters dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical, pharmaceutical and processed foods industries, and shows how the profit motive has led companies and even our own government to ignore troubling signs of widespread illness and disease. He not only sheds light on the problems we face from the unprecedented chemical onslaught, he tells us how we can turn the tide.

You’ve Got to Read This Book!
55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life
Jack Canfield and
Gay Hendricks
Hardcover, $24.95
Read about the books that have powerfully affected a long list of memorable people, including an award-winning teacher, one of America’s top trial lawyers, an octogenarian political activist, a Holocaust survivor, a radio show host, a world-renowned artist and a 14-year-old millionaire from inner-city Chicago.

The Long Emergency: Surviving The End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
James Howard Kunstler
Paperback, $14
The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is going to bring about major economic, political and social changes much sooner than anticipated. Here’s what you can expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over.

Iz: Voice of the People
Rick Carroll
Hardcover, $39.95
This is a portrait in words and over 200 photos of the man behind the music—his childhood, early years with the Makaha Sons of Niihau, solo career, and personal struggles and successes. It is about fame, but it is also about triumph over adversity and loss; about standing up for the people of Hawaii at a critical time in their history and inspiring them to demand justice and sovereignty; and about the music, people and events that shaped Iz’s phenomenal career.

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
Hardcover, $27.95
Ricks presents the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it. He expresses the view that some of our most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders were derelict in their duty, and that too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost and too much of America’s might and influence have been squandered for them to escape a fair reckoning.

Crisis
Robin Cook
Hardcover, $25.95
The inventor of the medical thriller and best-selling author of Coma, Abduction, Invasion, Marker and many other chilling novels now shows readers a healer’s dark side. It is the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies.

Estate Planning Basics: What You Need to Know & Nothing More!
Dennis Clifford
Paperback, $22
Concise, straightforward and easy-to-read explanations make estate planning as painless as possible. This third edition includes information about the latest estate planning laws.

Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the World War II Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion
Israel A. S. Yost
Paperback, $24.95
Israel Yost was a man of faith, courage and hope. His memoir of his two years with the 100th Battalion is a testament to his humanity, integrity and unwavering support of Japanese-American soldiers who were not only fighting the enemy abroad, but also social injustice at home.

Saints, Sinners & Shortstops
4 Wars • 40 Countries • 4,000 Characters
Jim Becker
Paperback, $14.95
From Hawaii to Brooklyn, Bayreuth, Babylon and Botswana, this multi-faceted newsman has been to just about every part of the globe, collecting along the way fascinating stories about heroes, saints, sinners and celebrities. His sense of adventure is tempered by a great sense of what makes life worth living.

Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People
Jane Bryant Quinn
Hardcover, $26
Quinn maintains investors only need a handful of simple, low-cost products and strategies to create a sound financial plan that will virtually run itself. It’s money management the no worry way.

 

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