Kirby: 517 books

Keoni didn't look like his parents. His mother was so white she'd blister hanging out the wash. His father's face was as red as a tomato. Keoni was a husky kid with a baby face and an olive complexion. If he spent time in the sun, he just got darker. Keoni could polish off a dozen malasadas in five...

A second son tries figuring out the sad and troubling relationship between his older brother and their father.

A boy is suspended from Punahou School for cutting clazz and must face the wrath of his father. He runs away from home to avoid a beating and is taken in by a family in Waimanalo.

The driver wore a black tank top. His arms were red and stained with tattoos. He pulled a rifle from behind the seat and slid the bolt action. He had on camouflage pants and a black cap with "Hanoi Hilton" embroidered in gold. An unlit cigarette hung from his lips like a fuse.  Gramma...

The boys have just been suspended from Punahou School and await their fate on the living room couch. What should be just another routine 'spanking' ends up as a runaway adventure to the south shore of Oahu, where the second son tries to sort out his differences with his controlling father and...

A girl attempts to make her father appear less threatening by dressing him up as a woman.  

Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in Prague and Eastern Europe.  

This collection of flash and poetry explores the secret interior worlds of characters dealing with intense emotional landscapes. Some of the pieces flash back in time to reveal the underpinnings of feelings of inadequacy, such as the narrator in "Butterfly Season," who recalls a lost love...

A Memoir of Hawaii in Prose, Poetry and Photos.

Father takes off for Colorado to help get his 17-year-old son situated at CU in Boulder. The experience is agony for the son because he must deal with his father's stewing hatred of him. The interior world of father and son are explored along with the dimensions of their dysfunctional family, including a sister hearing voices and an older brother raging with sibling rivalry.

Will Captain Awesome successfully take on Little Miss Stinky Pinky to become the winner of the second-grade spelling bee? Eugene McGillicuddy’s superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, relies on a wide array of superpowers to keep the town of Sunnyview safe from “bad guys.” But when Ms....

Rumor had it that Hoagie had already nailed three cheerleaders and was working on the girls in the Pep Club. Most of the girls and even some of the women teachers swooned whenever he walked by. I considered Hoagie a poacher. His age and status gave him an unfair advantage. I figured the main reason...

  My father kept Granny’s diamond ring on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet in his bathroom next to a blue jar of anti-itching cream. I saw it through the glass shelf whenever I slid the cabinet open for toothpaste. The ring haunted me. It promised no shallow glitter...

Julia Daniels, a Moloka'i pioneer woman of mixed blood, invites her grandsons Jeff and Ben to spend summers with her at her ranch on the east end. She shares the ranch with Chipper, an alcoholic war hero with a life estate bordering the swamp. The brothers roam a paradise of fishponds, waterfalls,...