Maui 101: Your Guide to Island Life offers newcomers: -Insights into Hawaii history and culture -Suggestions for ways to connect with the Maui community -Nut-and-bolts survival tips, from how to prounounce Hawaiian words to where to look for information on starting a business.

Maui 101

History

Engledow, Jill

Americas

Maui Island Press

Rarely seen photos recall the days when much of Maui life centered on HC&amp;S and its community. As Hawai'i's last sugar plantation completed its final harvest, writer Jill Engledow collected nostalgic pictures and stories from the Alexander &amp; Baldwin Sugar Museum archives.

Sugarcane Days: Remembering Maui's Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company

Jill Engledow

Maui, 1971: A rural paradise soon to become world famous . . .Carrie Ann Emerson has never heard of Maui, until her lost four-year-old daughter turns up there, more than 2,000 miles away from home. The single mother’s journey to reclaim her child takes her from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury to a quiet island community shocked by hippie newcomers with a lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Suspicious about the circumstances in which little Rorie was lost on the mainland, the Maui judge requires Carrie Ann to remain on the island until he’s convinced she’s a fit mother. At first she wants only to take Rorie home to San Francisco, but Maui has its charms. And then there’s Michael—handsome, sexy, charismatic. Certain that she needs a man to get by in the world, Carrie Ann sets her sights on Michael. But is there a line she should not cross to land the man of her dreams? And, with or without a man, can she be the kind of mother her little girl needs?

The Island Decides

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Story of Lahaina introduces you to a town that has survived and thrived in every era of Hawaii history. With stories and vintage images, it tells of voyaging Polynesians, divine chiefs, riotous whaling crews, dedicated missionaries and hardworking sugar-plantation immigrants.

The Story of Lahaina

Revised and improved edition! 
1971: Two lost girls on Maui.\nOne gets found.\nThe other must find herself. 
Struggling to survive as a single mother, Carrie Ann Emerson has made a home for herself and her four-year-old daughter in the San Francisco hippie community of Haight-Ashbury.\nThen little Rorie disappears. Frantic, Carrie Ann searches for her child. When word comes that Rorie has turned up in a hippie commune on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Carrie Ann must rush to this faraway place before her daughter can be put up for adoption. But the judge, skeptical about a mother who somehow managed to misplace her child, will return Rorie only if the two stay on Maui. Now Carrie Ann must make their life anew.\nMaui has its benefits—like meeting Michael. Certain that she needs a man to get by in this world, hoping to find a father for Rorie, Carrie Ann thinks handsome, sexy Michael might be the one she’s searching for.\nBut how much of herself must she give up to hold on to him? And, with or without a man, can Carrie Ann be the kind of mother her little girl needs?

The Island Decides (The Maui Trilogy)