Na Mea Hawaii "Special Events"

Pepeluali
February 21:  In the Company of Strangers talk story/book signing with author Michelle Cruz Skinner
Sunday 3p - 5p
Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers.

February 21:  Roundtable Discussion
Sunday 10a-12p
Join us for our monthly roundtable discussion where you are free to share YOUR mana’o on issues that face Hawaiians today.

Malaki
March 6  Johann Sebastian Humpbach reading and book signing
Saturday 2:30p - 4p
Listen as this children’s book comes to life with a reading by author/ publisher Jamie David.  Her newly published first novel, “Johann Sebastian Humpbach,” the world’s most popular singing whale, is a tale of suspense and adventure set in contemporary Hawaii written especially for Hawaii’s “tweens.” She will be here to sign your copy following the reading.

March 14:  “Rainbows Over Kapa’a” by Author Bill Fernandez
  On Sunday, March 14, 2010, Kamehameha  Schools  alumnus, Bill Fernandez, will give an author talk between 3 and 5 P.M. at Native Books Hawaii. His memoir/family history, Rainbows Over Kapa’a, tells the story of five generations of his family who settled in the east side of Kaua’i and eventually built The Roxy Theater, the largest movie palace in the islands in 1939. The book is filled with photographs.

“You will delight in the array of characters,” says Linda Moriarty, author of Niihau Shell Lei. “A must read for anyone living on Kaua’i”, Andy Bushnell, Prof. Emeritus, KCC.   “A gift to the island,” according to a neighbor.  “I read it with tears streaming as I relived my youth,” said a woman who grew up in Kapa’a.  “Those were the good old days”, a long time merchant recalled.  “I couldn’t sleep after Bill’s talk because I started to remember so many adventures as a boy in the islands.”  It is reactions like these which bring a lot of joy to Bill when he talks about his book.

For more information, contact Mahealani Alvarez 783-2665, Native Books / Na Mea Hawai’I, Ward Warehouse