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Alan Brennert Books In Order

Hawaii Books In Publication Order

  1. Moloka’i (2003)
  2. Daughter of Moloka’i (2019)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. City of Masques (1978)
  2. Kindred Spirits (1984)
  3. Time and Chance (1990)
  4. Batman: Holy Terror (1991)
  5. Honolulu (2009)
  6. Palisades Park (2013)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Her Pilgrim Soul (1990)
  2. The Hawaii Novels (2015)

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Alan Brennert Books Overview

Moloka’i

This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai’i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little known time and place and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven year old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka’i. Here her life is supposed to end but instead she discovers it is only just beginning. With a vibrant cast of vividly realized characters, Moloka’i is the true to life chronicle of a people who embraced life in the face of death. Such is the warmth, humor, and compassion of this novel that ‘few readers will remain unchanged by Rachel’s story’ mostlyfiction. com.

Kindred Spirits

Ginny is a waiflike department store employee. Desperate for love but unwilling to keep her opinions to herself, she alienates the few good men who come her way. Michael is a graphic artist doing cut and paste work in New York’s Chinatown. Talented but lacking in ambition, he figures women look right through him and can’t really blame them. Then one Christmas both Ginny and Michael give up on life, only to find something infinitely more wonderful. Because after risking everything, they soon discover, amid the glittering December snow, a romance awash with all the wonders of the hereafter, but with a great deal to teach us all about living here on Earth.

Time and Chance

A classic novel from the bestselling author of Moloka’i and HonoluluBefore Alan Brennert became a bestselling author of historical novels, he wrote this lyrical fantasy in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife. Part love story, part deeply affecting character study, it is a literary tour de force chronicling the parallel lives of two men who were once the same man until, as the poet Robert Frost wrote, Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler…
Thirteen years ago, Richard Cochrane left his small New England town to pursue his dreams of an acting career. But on some other level of reality there is also a Rick Cochrane, who chose instead to set aside his dreams, marry the woman he loved, and raise a family. Today, neither man is happy with the choice he made but as their lives, once separated by Time and Chance, now draw closer together, Richard and Rick are offered another a last chance to discover the road not taken. Time and Chance displays the same vivid sense of time and place and the vibrant, memorable characters drawn with compassion, warmth, and humor that have made the author s historical novels national bestsellers and reading group favorites.

Honolulu

From the bestselling author of the dazzling historical saga The Washington Post, Moloka i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another called Pity. As for me, my parents named me Regret. Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young picture bride who journeys to Hawai’i in 1914 in search of a better life. Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today. But paradise has its dark side, whether it’s the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu s tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands history…
With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawai’i far off the tourist track, Honolulu is most of all the spellbinding tale of four women in a new world, united by dreams, disappointment, sacrifices, and friendship.

Her Pilgrim Soul

Imaginative, magical stories delve into the lives of such characters as an aging hero with the power to remedy the Mideast crisis and a petty thief who steals an ancient Aztec healing stone. K. PW.

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