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My Name is Loa
My Name is Loa is the story of a fifteen-year-old Hawaiian boy who always thought he would grow up to become a doctor and live in a fine house. That was before he was diagnosed as having leprosy and banished to Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka’i. It is 1898, the year the Hawaiian islands were annexed to the United States. Life in Kalaupapa is not unlike life in any plantation town in Hawai’i, except for the fact that it is a leprosy settlement. Every patient sent there knows there is no return. When Loa arrives at the settlement he is frightened by the hundreds of diseased patients. But soon his life falls into a routine. He befriends Paka, a troublesome boy from Maui; he works as an editor for Brother Dutton. And he is cherished like a son by Sam, who had saved him from drowning on the voyage to Kalaupapa. Loa falls in love with Kamalani, a patient who works at the clinic. And eight-year-old Hiapo, who shares moments with him in a treehouse, eating peanuts and bombarding mynahs with their shells, teaches him to face death. My Name is Loa is a story you will never forget.
Across God's Frontiers
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God's Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives. As nuns and sisters adjusted to new circumstances and immersed themselves in rugged environments, Butler argues, the West shaped them; and through their labors and...
An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands
When twenty-three-year-old Carrie Prudence Winter caught her first glimpse of Honolulu from aboard the Zealandia in October 1890, she had "never seen anything so beautiful." She had been traveling for two months since leaving her family home in Connecticut and was at last only a few miles from her final destination, Kawaiaha'o Female Seminary, a flourishing boarding school for Hawaiian girls. As the daughter of staunch New England Congregationalists, Winter had dreamed of being a missionary teacher as a child and reasoned that "teaching for a few years among the Sandwich Islands seemed particularly attractive" while her fiancé pursued a science degree. During her three years at Kawaiaha'o, ...
Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
"This selection prints, in whole or in part, 317 letters that are representative of each period of Stevenson's mature life."--Jacket.
Ein Pionier braucht keine Lackschuhe
Juliska lebt im Wendejahr 1989 in Dresden. Eigentlich wäre alles bestens, würden ihr nicht Paps und vor allem Oma aus Westberlin verbieten, Pionier zu werden. Dabei wünscht sie sich Pionier zu sein mehr als alles andere. Also verbündet sie sich mit der Pionierleiterin, Genossin Graaf, die auch in ihrem Haus wohnt und von allen Gräfin genannt wird. Sie wird der Gräfin helfen, dass die Straße nach ihrem Vater umbenannt wird, und die Gräfin hilft ihr, Pionier zu werden. Bis Juliska merkt, dass die Gräfin einen ganz eigenen Plan verfolgt, ist sie schon mittendrin in einem Strudel von Lügen und perfiden Machenschaften. Ob ihr die seltsame Nachbarin Frau Pfefferstein, die mehr weiß und mitbekommt, als es den Anschein hat, helfen kann? Als Juliska und ihre Freundin im Keller der Gräfin merkwürdige Akten über Frau Pfefferstein finden, beginnt eine wilde Jagd, denn was darin steht, darf niemand wissen.
