Hawaii news

Hawaii's jobless rate fell slightly to 6.3% in 2011

Bizjournals.com - Jan 24, 2012
The seasonally adjusted annual unemployment rate in Hawaii fell to 6.3 percent last year from 6.6 percent in 2010, the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate for December, however, ...

VIDEO: Hawaii State of the State takes a different tone this year

Hawaii Reporter

Big Island Video News - Jan 24, 2012
By David Corrigan and Stephanie Salazar HONOLULU, Hawaii: Governor Neil Abercrombie delivered his second State of the State address before the state Legislature on Monday, laying out the initiatives his administration will pursue over the session.

Hawaii-filmed “The Descendants” dramedy picks up five Oscar nominations

Hawaiimagazine.com (blog)

Hawaiimagazine.com (blog) - Jan 24, 2012
The Descendants, a dramedy filmed on Oahu and Kauai, and packed with a cast of compelling Hawaii characters, today picked up five Academy Awards nominations. According to the complete Oscar nominee list for the 84th Academy Awards, Hugo leads the ...

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Hawaii books

Death by Facebook

by: Everett Peacock
A vacationing soldier in Hawaii...
Earth's most active volcano, anxious to repeat itself...
Two murders involving love, madness, friendship, hippies, tsunamis, and the great hereafter...

DEATH BY FACEBOOK by Everett Peacock
Be careful what you say online

REVIEW:
A wildly inventive story about love, madness, friendship, hippies, tsunamis, murder and the great hereafter all in a vivid tropical setting. It is funny, fascinating and touching. If you have never been to the Big Island, this book will make you want to go.
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Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel

by: Janet Evanovich

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home, in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.

Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup.
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Tiwaka Goes to Waikiki

by: Everett Peacock
Our hero, lost in a tropical storm...
Captured by the diabolical Parrot Master...
Adventure and revolution, love and music in the jungles of Waikiki...

TIWAKA GOES TO WAIKIKI by Everett Peacock
~ The magic of Hawaii continues

** A magical and well textured addition to the series!
Tiwaka gets his Flight Status upgraded and soon gets in trouble in the tropical skies of Hawaii. After landing in faraway Waikiki he finds he is not the only parrot in trouble..
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The Necromancer

by: Pamela M. Richter
THE NECROMANCER

Michelle was brutally attacked in her locked hotel room in Las Vegas. The police didn't believe her and thought she must have lured a man up to her hotel room for a little sexual adventure, which went dangerously out of control.

Michelle sustained visible scars from the terrifying and almost lethal attack, but pure fear motivated the move from her home in California to Hawaii. She's scared her attacker will come back. She's sure the next time he'll kill her.
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