My Name Is Makia - 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 My Name Is Makia write by Makia Malo. This book was released on 2012-09-10. My Name Is Makia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diagnosed with Hansen's disease (leprosy) at the age of twelve and exiled to the remote settlement of Kalaupapa, Molokai, Makia Malo lost his hands, his feet and his eyesight over the years -- but never the vision or spirit that have made him a celebrated storyteller and poet. In "My Name Is Makia," this inspirational Hawaiian now tells his own story -- of a child of Kalaupapa who grew up to carry his message of hope and love throughout the Islands and around the world.
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.
Metamorphosis of a Psycho, I Mean Psychic
Metamorphosis of a Psycho, I Mean Psychic - 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 Metamorphosis of a Psycho, I Mean Psychic write by Ed La Buy. This book was released on 2011-12-30. Metamorphosis of a Psycho, I Mean Psychic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Kalaupapa Place Names
Kalaupapa Place Names - 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 Kalaupapa Place Names write by John R. K. Clark. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Kalaupapa Place Names available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Kalaupapa Place Names, John Clark presents a unique history of the leprosy settlement on Moloka‘i, based on his meticulous research of more than three hundred Hawaiian-language newspaper articles. He first assembled an extensive list of familiar and long-forgotten place names associated with the Kalaupapa peninsula and then searched for them in the online repository of Hawaiian-language newspapers. With translation assistance by Iāsona Ellinwood and Keao NeSmith, he discovered articles that show a community of Hawaiians from every island except uninhabited Kaho‘olawe. Their stories reveal an active community with its members trying to live their lives as normally as possible in the face of a debilitating disease. The first section of the book contains newspaper articles arranged under an alphabetical listing of place names. The second section organizes the material into chronological segments, from before the establishment of the Kalaupapa Settlement to the death of Mother Marianne Cope in 1918. These two sections are followed by a collection of kanikau or lamentations, interviews with Kalaupapa residents, and a list of Hawaiian language newspapers. Introductory paragraphs for groupings of newspaper articles assist the reader in visualizing the physical landscape and understanding the history and significance of a particular location. The poetry of the Hawaiian language is evident throughout the translations, especially in the kanikau.
The Last Loyalty
The Last Loyalty - 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 Last Loyalty write by Bernadette Lyons . This book was released on 2018-11-27. The Last Loyalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “O Mother of Mares, send me a change in the wind!” Jessa, Healer to a nomadic tribe, is content enough among them but life is routine and predictable, and her heart is empty. She prays for change, and apparently the Gods hear her, for change arrives – most unexpectedly, in the shape of a warrior from an alien world. As an officer with the British Army in Afghanistan, Captain Malcolm Redwing finds life anything but routine and predictable. It becomes even less so when after a serious accident on active duty he wakes to find himself among Jessa’s tribe, a stranger on a world that is not Earth. At first he is regarded with dislike and suspicion, but eventually he makes his peace with The People and settles down as one among them. As a professional soldier should, he waits for his chance to discover how he came to their world, and whether he can make his way back to his own by the same means. As time passes, however, the friendships he makes and his developing relationship with Jessa begin to come into conflict with his loyalty to his regiment and the comrades and friends he has left behind. His duty is to return home if he can, but as the months slip by he begins to question where his true loyalty really lies. Then news comes that a long-feared invasion by a strange and warlike people from the South has begun, and both Malcolm and Jessa are swept up into a conflict for which the peaceable Tribe are utterly unprepared.
