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Lynne Waihee: Champion of Children’s Literacy |
| Former first lady of Hawaii Lynne Waihee heads the Read to Me International Foundation, which helps kids succeed in life — by the book. |
Balancing Career and Caregiving |
| A Makiki resident describes how he pulls off the ultimate juggling act. |
DEPARTMENT:
The
Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
John Tayman
Hardcover, $27.50
This moving saga of Kalaupapa, where Hansen’s disease patients
were exiled from 1866 to 1969, is filled with stories of presidents,
kings, cruel lawmen, pioneering doctors and brave souls who literally
gave their lives to help. The distinguished cast includes the martyred
Father Damien; President Teddy Roosevelt; actor John Wayne; and authors
Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London and Mark Twain. The result is a
searing tale of survival and bravery – and a testament to the
power of faith, compassion and heroism.
Between Two Worlds
Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up
in the Shadow of Saddam
Zainab Salbi
Hardcover, $26
Founder and president of Women for Women International, Salbi documents her privileged yet harrowing life in her native Iraq, recounting her memories of family friend Saddam Hussein. She shows how the mechanisms of terror practiced by Saddam’s tyrannical regime rendered her so impaired that she could not protest. Nor could she voice her people’s suffering even when she moved to America in 1991. This book shows how Saddam was able to intimidate even close friends. We see how fear can lead to blind loyalty and exaggerated demonstrations of love. Through a journey colored with loss and hope, readers encounter a story of self-awakening and of realizing the will to live and survive.
Sudoku
Mania: More Than 200 New Fun and Challenging Japanese Number Puzzles
Tammy Seto
Paperback, $5.99
These popular and utterly addicting logic puzzles from Japan have taken the world by storm. Each puzzle consists of a grid of nine rows by nine, split into nine boxes of nine squares each. The aim is to fill in the grid so that the digits 1 to 9 appear once in every row, every column and every box. These puzzles offer hours of stimulating entertainment for Sudoku aficionados of all levels.
The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock
Its Mysteries
Shannon Moffett
Hardcover, $24.95
How does someone with severe amnesia still recognize himself in the mirror? How are we able to erase a traumatic event from our memory? And how, at only three pounds (80 percent of which is only water), does the human brain give rise to consciousness? To Moffett, a Stanford medical student, the human brain is an irresistible enigma. With illustrations and extraordinary case histories, she provides an engaging, enlightening and thought-provoking escape.
The
Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps
to Health and Happiness
Larry Dossey
Hardcover, $24.95
Dossey has written numerous volumes on the subjects of mind-body medicine and the role of consciousness in healing. For this book, he collected scholarly research and historical references on treatments for common, everyday illnesses. Easily available and acquired, these remedies include optimism, forgetting, tears, music and plants. For each, Dossey begins the discussion in terms of its use in history or with a scenario of someone’s life experience with a corresponding illness where the remedy was used or would be useful. Many of the claims made regarding the healing sources are based on empirical research, with citations listed in the note section at the end of the book. Because the text is written in a smooth narrative fashion, the reader’s interest is engaged and held.
Love in the Time of Cholesterol:
A Memoir with Recipes
Cecily Ross
Hardcover, $22.95
Ross and her husband Basil were very much in love with each other and with good food. In fact, their romance was sparked by a wonderful meal cooked by Basil. But when he nearly died from heart disease, the couple was forced to evaluate their eating habits and retool their lifestyle. This book is a poignant and often funny memoir that follows them as they adjust to life after his heart surgery. With candor, she discusses their struggle to meet the unique challenges of living with Basil’s condition, the compromises they had to make, how they cope with the fear and anxiety that are now part of their lives, and the secret to living and eating well with heart disease. There’s also a generous helping of mouthwatering, heart-friendly recipes.
These titles are all currently available at the seven Borders Express and Borders Books, Music, Movies & Cafe outlets on Oahu. Call the store nearest you for more information.