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Winner of the 2024 Nautilus Award for Small Press Fiction!A boundary-bridging novel that will surprise, captivate, and movereaders who thought they knew Hawaiʻi; an age-old story of healing a searedheart and finding home. Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashingpassions—science and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear andcourage—set atop Hawaiʻi’s 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddessesand star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America’sturmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holymountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a mysterious domain of ancientmountain deities and the Native Hawaiians who revere them, including two wiseelders who take him under their wings and a young woman with a world-wearyheart akin to his own. Through his startling experiences with them—and a motleycadre of other islanders—he learns the power of aloha anddiscovers an untapped reservoir of faith and courage that rekindles his hope inhimself and in the world we share.Includes an illustrated map and 12 original pen-and-ink drawings made especially for the novel by John D. Dawson
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Daughters of Fire is a gripping adventure of romance, intrigue, myth, and murder set amid the cultural tensions of today’s Hawaiʻi.Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Silver Finalist Award for Popular FictionA visiting astronomer falls in love with a Hawaiian anthropologist who guides him into a Polynesian world of volcanoes, gods, and revered ancestors. The lovers get caught up in murder and intrigue as developers and politicians try to conceal that a long-dormant volcano is rumbling back to life above the hotel-laden Kona coast. The anthropologist joins forces with an aging seer and a young activist, and these three Hawaiian women summon their deepest traditions to confront the latest, most extravagant resort as the eruption and the murder expose deep rifts in paradise.Tom Peek’s mystical and provocative novel picks up Hawaiʻi’s story where James Michener left off. Daughters of Fire illuminates how the islands’ post-statehood transformation into a tourist mecca and developers gold mine sparked a Native Hawaiian movement to reclaim their culture, protect sacred land, and step into the future with wisdom and aloha.Includes an illustrated map and 9 original pen-and-ink drawings created for the novel by John D. Dawson. Also includes a Reading Group Guide. Originally published in 2012, Daughters of Fire has become a classic of modern Hawaiian fiction. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.