Lemon Press: 142 books

The Junior Class at Punahou School must think of a way to revive interest in the Haunted House, an attraction that was forced to close down in earlier years because of a lack of interest from carnival goers. What to do? How about a house that features an inner sanctum and haunts chock full of vampires!

The first day of eighth grade was the worst day of my life. Debbie Mills, the girl of my dreams, was in the courtyard outside Bishop Hall holding hands with the school bully, Wayne Braswell. Ben told me Wayne had treated Debbie to a summer of matinees, rides on his father’s catamaran, and cheeseburger...

A son's visit to M's Ranch House in Aina Haina with his father triggers happy memories in a relationship that has grown abusive.  They are there to celebrate Joe Frazier's victory over Ali in March, 1971.  

There is a shop on the corner of Second Avenue and Main. It is a shop filled with things. It is a shop filled with this and that, bits and pieces, odds and sods. You know the kind I mean. Ask anyone how long it’s been there and they’ll say, it seems like forever. Yes, the exterior needs...

A father accepts his son's challenge to tie him up so he can test his escape skills.  The son gets free and teases his father.  The father ties him up a second time and things turn violent.

A grandmother takes her two grandsons to the Grand Opening Luau at the Molokai Shores condo complex. The grandmother crosses paths with her ex and the grandsons try to get them back together. The younger boy meets his ex-girlfriend from Punahou at the luau and he attempts to rekindle an old flame.

These dreamscapes explore the places of in-betweens, the gray zone between life and death, living and dying. Would father make love again to his wife's best friend, even though she's become a zombie? Why is Gramma chasing the narrator out of the rest home? Has father learned a lesson in empathy when...

A son sees his mother with another man at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book. Dadio and June Spoon have created their...

A collection of Nouveau Noir stories, many reminscient of Kafka. Some of the stories are set in the Czech Republic while others are set in Hawaii. There is a dreamlike quality to most of the stories, but others are realistic in temperment.  

Fifteen years is a long time, but not long enough for Clancy Wilson to forget the past. She wants to believe in second chances and now, more than anything else, she wants to believe in Mason Harbeck. Will she trust him enough to tell him the truth, or will her heart betray her?I didn’t take...

A concise overview of the island to help you plan your vacation to "The Most Hawaiian Island" in Hawaii. Includes Ocean & Land Adventures as well as local contacts for Yoga, Mud Baths, and Hawaiian 'lomi lomi' Massage.  Focusing more on the east end on the island--the place of waterfalls, endangered rain forests, and ancient fishponds.  

  Grandpa rarely phones. When he does, he doesn’t ask to speak to me. I know long distance is expensive. Sometimes my mother sends secret money and there is always a few hundred on Christmases and birthdays. He said the money saves him when he gets behind. He calls her...

A boy experiences life and death on his grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.