Moloka'i - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moloka'i write by Alan Brennert. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Moloka'i available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. In her exile she finds a family of friends to replace the family she's lost: a native healer, Haleola, who becomes her adopted "auntie" and makes Rachel aware of the rich culture and mythology of her people; Sister Mary Catherine Voorhies, one of the Franciscan sisters who care for young girls at Kalaupapa; and the beautiful, worldly Leilani, who harbors a surprising secret. At Kalaupapa she also meets the man she will one day marry. True to historical accounts, Moloka'i is the story of an extraordinary human drama, the full scope and pathos of which has never been told before in fiction. But Rachel's life, though shadowed by disease, isolation, and tragedy, is also one of joy, courage, and dignity. This is a story about life, not death; hope, not despair. It is not about the failings of flesh, but the strength of the human spirit.
Molokai
Molokai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Molokai write by O. A. Bushnell. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Molokai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Father Damien, Dr. Newman, and a group of other courageous and selfless people struggle to offer hope and dignity to the inhabitants of a late-nineteenth-century leprosy colony.
Daughter of Moloka'i
Daughter of Moloka'i - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daughter of Moloka'i write by Alan Brennert. This book was released on 2019-02-19. Daughter of Moloka'i available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NOW A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: USA Today • BookRiot • BookBub • LibraryReads • OC Register • Never Ending Voyage The highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert’s acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, Moloka'i "A novel of illumination and affection." —USA Today Alan Brennert’s beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa—was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp during World War II—and then, after the war, to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth’s birth mother, Rachel. Daughter of Moloka'i expands upon Ruth and Rachel’s 22-year relationship, only hinted at in Moloka'i. It’s a richly emotional tale of two women—different in some ways, similar in others—who never expected to meet, much less come to love, one another. And for Ruth it is a story of discovery, the unfolding of a past she knew nothing about. Told in vivid, evocative prose that conjures up the beauty and history of both Hawaiian and Japanese cultures, it’s the powerful and poignant tale that readers of Moloka'i have been awaiting for fifteen years.
The Colony
The Colony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Colony write by John Tayman. This book was released on 2010-05-11. The Colony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it. Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and many who did were not contagious, yet all were ensnared in a shared nightmare. Here, for the first time, John Tayman reveals the complete history of the Molokai settlement and its unforgettable inhabitants. It's an epic of ruthless manhunts, thrilling escapes, bizarre medical experiments, and tragic, irreversible error. Carefully researched and masterfully told, The Colony is a searing tale of individual bravery and extraordinary survival, and stands as a testament to the power of faith, compassion, and the human spirit.
News from Molokai, Letters Between Peter Kaeo & Queen Emma, 1873-1876
News from Molokai, Letters Between Peter Kaeo & Queen Emma, 1873-1876 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook News from Molokai, Letters Between Peter Kaeo & Queen Emma, 1873-1876 write by Peter Kaeo. This book was released on 1976. News from Molokai, Letters Between Peter Kaeo & Queen Emma, 1873-1876 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
