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The Last Aloha Paperback - 2009
by Add Quinn, Gaellen
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Details
- Title The Last Aloha
- Author Add Quinn, Gaellen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 394
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Lost Coast Press, Fort Bragg, California, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-06-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 521X7W00072O
- ISBN 9781935448006 / 1935448005
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Geographic Orientation: Hawaii
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Young women
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008054940
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the jacket flap
How did Hawaii become part of America? This story, inspired by true events suppressed for nearly 100 years, is the one James Michener never wrote. In 1886, Laura Jennings travels to Hawaii to live with missionary relatives. She imagines she'll live in a grass hut, ministering to savages. When she arrives in Honolulu, she's surprised to find her relatives are among the wealthy elite plotting to overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy. And, far from being savages, the Hawaiians have developed a charming and prosperous Victorian kingdom. To avoid her conniving uncle's control, Laura leaves to work for the royal family and learns her family's prejudices against them are false. The last Queen, Lili-uokalani, wages a tragic struggle to save the Kingdom. Through choices she makes when every avenue is blocked, Laura sees the power that can restore the spirit of a people caught in a turbulent world and discovers how long-hidden secrets of her own family