How can more of us protect and create waiwai, value, for coming generations? Culturally-rich education. Holistic health systems. Organic farming and aquaculture. Creative and conscious urban development. Caring for one another across difference. Telling our stories. Continuing the conversation of The Value of Hawai‘i: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future, this new collection offers passionate and poignant visions for our shared futures in these islands. The fresh voices gathered in this book share their inspiring work and ideas for creating value, addressing a wide range of topics: community health, agriculture, public education, local business, energy, gender, rural lifestyles, sacred community, activism, storytelling, mo‘olelo, migration, voyaging, visual art, music, and the ‘āina we continue to love and mālama. By exploring connections to those who have come before and those who will follow after, the contributors to this volume recenter Hawai‘i in our watery Pacific world. Their autobiographical essays will inspire readers to live consciously and lead as island people. Contributors: Jeffrey Tangonan Acido, U‘ilani Arasato, Kamana Beamer, Makena Coffman, Donovan Kūhiō Colleps, Sean Connelly, Elise Leimomi Dela Cruz-Talbert, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Consuelo Agarpao Gouveia, Tina Grandinetti, Hunter Heaivilin, Sania Fa‘amaile Betty P. Ickes, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Bonnie Kahape‘a-Tanner, Kainani Kahaunaele, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, Haley Kailiehu, Hi‘ilei Kawelo, Keone Kealoha, Emelihter Kihleng, James Koshiba, Derek Kurisu, Dawn Mahi, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Mailani Neal, Ryan Oishi, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Eri Oura, Faith Pascua, Mark Patterson, Prime/John Hina, No‘u Revilla, Hāwane Rios, Darlene Rodrigues, Cheryse Julitta Kauikeolani Sana, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Lyz Soto, Innocenta Sound-Kikku, Cade Watanabe, Jill Yamasawa, Aiko Yamashiro, Matt N. Yamashita, Aubrey Morgan Yee.
The undead return with more strange, terrifying, and bizarre tales of the unlife beyond life. Zombies, ghouls, vampires, and other things that should not be shamble through the pages of this anthology. Among the tales told: An old gunslinger and a horse thief hunt down a rather peculiar prize that does more than haunt them in Bring Me The Head Of Pepe Cortez! The competition at the Annual Southeastern Necromancer's Invitational proves to be a real killer in Deadest in Show. How much of a body can you replace and life still be life? A man desperate to save his wife confronts this question in Fixing Nancy.
Inspired by visits to twelve zoos around the United States, Homes that they share helps parents and children understand the value of animals in the wild, focusing especially on exciting and often endangered species that we can see in zoos.
(The Omega's Christmas Wish is a short story and part of the multi-author Spirit of the Christmas Star series. Each author was given the same writing prompt of a Christmas Star wish granting spirit so details in each book will be different and therefore can be read in any order as complete standalones.) Tanner Michaelson is an omega wolf shifter, ranger for the forest service, and part time hunting guide for his pack's paranormal only nature resort. Tanner loves everything about the holiday season but lately, he hasn't felt much like celebrating. Everyone around him seems to be finding their mates except him. As the oldest and only omega without a mate, rumors are starting to fly. Some say Tanner's defective as an omega, and he's been abandoned by the fates. With each year that passes without finding his mate, Tanner starts to believe the words a little more. Mackinley 'Mack' O'Connell is a grizzly bear warlock hybrid who runs a logging company out of Washington state. The quintessential lumberjack, Mack is almost always in the woods either cutting down trees, magically creating new ones or hiking and hunting. Mack loves the holiday season and spreading joy despite having no one to celebrate with at home. Mack looks forward to the day he'll meet his mate but prays it'll happen sooner rather than later. When Tanner is reminded of an old Christmas legend about a wish granting spirit he writes a letter to the spirit but throws it away. Tanner thinks nothing will come of it so there's no reason to hope, but is he right? (Warning: Contains mpreg elements, explicit language, and graphic sexual content. Not recommended for those under the age of 18.)
The year is 1862. Prospectors swarm over the Sierra Nevada, hunting for gold, desperadoes roam the range, and the Indians are on the warpath. Dr. Henry Lockhart is so busy setting broken bones that he hasn't any time for women. Just as well. There's hardly a woman worth thinking about in the entire Nevada Territory. Then Erica James appears out of nowhere. Erica is different. She wears running shoes, totes around a contraption she calls a 'video camera,' and says she's from the future. From 1989, to be exact.
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