When Rachel is just 5 years old, in the 1890s, and living in Honolulu with her family, she is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to a hospital at the Kalaupapa Leper Colony on the island of Moloka'i. Over the years, as the disease is treated (a cure is finally found in 1940), Rachel loses contact with her family, marries a fellow patient, has a ...
"Honolulu" is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young 'picture bride' who leaves her native Korea - where girls are so little valued that she is known as Regret - and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. Instead of the prosperous young husband and the chance at an education she has been promised, Jin is quickly married off to a ...
A joyful tale of unexpected romance from Nebula Award-winning screenwriter Alan Brennert. Two lonely people who have given up on life attempt to end it all, and while comatose in the hospital, their disembodied spirits collide in the hallway. What follows is a hilarious, inspiring, and tender love story. Selected as one of English Journal's ...
/Norm Breyfogle, illustrator In a modern-day America ruled by laws of oppression, Bruce Wayne must uncover the political machinations behind the murder of his parents while finding ways to oppose th
From pre-Aztec Mexico to present-day Los Angeles, from the shores of ancient Greece to the ruins of New York City, these eight stories take readers from the realistic to the fantastic and from classical to contemporary mythology. Screenwriter Brennert is a three-time nominee for the Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Teleplay, most recently for ...
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