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Ashlynne Rothschild grew up with the proverbial silver spoon in her
mouth. Smart and sassy, Ashlynne expects to inherit the "Park
Avenues" magazine empire. But her family has other ideas. Feeling
she needs to understand the world beyond, they ship her off to
Testament, North Carolina, for a little learning about life."
William Decker grew up in a small town with dreams of big-city
success. But when the spoiled Ashlynne falls under his authority,
her big city ways aren t so appealing. Ashlynne s attempt at learn
normal ends with a wounded spirit, while William's reach for the
stars attitude ends with a wounded heart. When these two
journalists go head to head, the race is on to see if either will
succeed in getting what they really want.
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The Ohana (Paperback)
Laura Wright Laroche; Edited by Eva Marie Everson; C. W. Schutter
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R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A child is dying. Her life depends on an explosive secret her
grandmother has kept from their Ohana (family). As Mary Han
wrestles with the toxic revelations, she must finally face the past
she fought so hard to forget. The Ohana is a riveting retrospective
of the social, political, and economic history of Hawaii told
through a historical family saga spanning three unforgettable
generations. From the young Korean, Han Chaul Roong, who murders
the hated Japanese invaders who kidnap his sister and force her
into prostitution, to the Japanese aristocrat Kazuko who abandons
her life of wealth and privilege to live in poverty with the
servant she loves, the Asians came to work the brutal cane fields
of Hawaii under Patrick O'Malley, a refugee from the Irish famine
who sailed on a coffin ship to the gang-infested streets of Boston
and ended up in Hawaii after the bloody Civil War. The immigrants
meet in the sugar cane fields of Kohala, Hawaii where a savage,
unthinkable crime and a failed strike draw the three families
together in an uneasy alliance. Sean Duffy, Patrick's nephew,
climbs out of Boston's slums to the top of Hawaiian society by way
of a loveless marriage to the sister of the woman he loves.
Kazuko's beautiful daughter Mariko lives as a social outcaste in
the whorehouses of Honolulu. Chaul Roong's son, George Han, the
ruthless mob boss of the first Korean syndicate, builds an empire
while hiding his love for his brother's wife. The colliding worlds
of the immigrants and their American-born children and
grandchildren come to a head when an entire generation protests the
Vietnam war and revolt against traditional values. Now the families
must put aside their lifetime prejudices and grudges to save a
young girl. Will their Ohanas survive the startling truth behind
the lies? "A telling saga involving Hawaii's multi-ethnic, Asian
families. Intimate look at the people of the islands imbued with
authentic insights of events and stories that need to be told." Dr.
Dennis Ogawa American Studies Professor, University of Hawaii,
Author Pres. & CEO of Nippon Golden Network
Kimberly Tucker's life hasn't turned out the way she thought it
would. A divorced mother of two, Kim resents her ex-husband for
moving on with his life and living it up while she struggles to
understand what went wrong. When her sons end up spending five
weeks of summer vacation with their father, Kim's own father
suggests a respite in the family vacation home on tiny Cedar Key
Island. As Kim revisits her childhood memories and loves, she soon
discovers that treasures in life are often buried, and
mistakes--both past and present--become redeemable in God's hand.
Readers will be swept away to an island retreat where they walk
alongside Kim as she discovers that God's answers may not come
easily, but they do come.
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