HI Public Library Tour

Library Tour: Kailua Library

by Alex on October 24, 2009
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Kailua Public Library is the next stop on Hawaii Book Blog’s Hawaii Public Library Challenge Tour.  We drove up to the Windward side on a beautiful Saturday morning, hoping to catch some breakfast and run a …

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Library Challenge Book Review: The Musubi Man chronicles

by Alex on September 30, 2009
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As a part of our Hawaii Public Library Challenge Tour, we ask each librarian for one book recommendation for us to read and review.  For Diane Masaki from Aiea Library, we talked about a number of books, but she …

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Library Tour: Kahuku Library

by Misty on September 21, 2009
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“Are we there yet?”… “no”…”are we there now?”…”no”…”we’ve gotta be close!”…”nope”.

That’s pretty much how the conversation went as we drove from town to Kahuku Public library last Tuesday night after work. Alex was driving per usual, and I was …

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Book Review: Night Fisher

by Alex on September 16, 2009
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I thought it would be nice to highlight a different medium of literature here at Hawaii Book Blog.  Comic books and graphic novels have slowly gained respect over the years in literary circles and mainstream media.  The format has blossomed …

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Book Review: The Maui Book of Lavender

by Misty on September 14, 2009
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During our visit to Kapolei Library, Branch Manager Stacie Kanno recommended The Maui Book of Lavender (Watermark, 2008) for us to read and review. I had previously heard about the Maui lavender farm on one of my trips …

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Library Tour: Aiea Library

by Alex on September 9, 2009
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posted by A.Alba

The second stop on our Hawaii Public Library Tour 2009 is Aiea Library, found nestled next to Aiea Town & Village Square shopping centers off of Moanalua Road.  Having only been there a couple times in the …

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Library Tour: Kapolei Library

by Misty on September 4, 2009
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The first stop on our Public Library Tour was Kapolei! We met with Branch Manager, Stacie Kanno to talk about the unique role that the Kapolei Library plays in the Leeward community.  I thought I knew quite a bit about …

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Library Challenge book review: House of Thieves

by Alex on September 3, 2009
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We are just heading into the month of September now, and we are finally moving full steam into our 2009 Hawaii Public Library Challenge! As mentioned previously here, we wanted to take a challenge we joined from another book …

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