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When compared to other countries, our local booktok is just not up to the mark. Here are some ways to improve that.

This month’s recommendations from our friends at Da Shop provide tips, advice and motivation to start the Year of the Tiger strong.

Be more like The People's Chris: buy your books locally, wear short shorts, and mask up. 

I set a goal to finish 50 in one year. Here are my favorites.

Be more like The People's Chris: buy your books locally, wear short shorts, and mask up. 

To the untrained eye, a children’s book may look simple: an entertaining, comforting story accompanied by colorful artwork. But the skilled children’s book author must deliver complex ideas and valuable life lessons in a fun, relatable and easy-to-understand format. It’s no easy task, but these local authors have done just that, with recently released children’s books that tackle topics from food allergies to pandemics. We reached out to these local authors via email to lear...

    History often pulled up a chair at Jane Marshall Goodsill’s dining room table. As a girl, she would sit and listen as her father, prominent attorney Marshall Goodsill, and mother, Ruth, chatted with the myriad guests they welcomed within their Vladimir Ossipoff-designed walls. (The Ossipoffs were dear friends, by the way.)   Her book, Voices of Hawai‘i, feels just like an invitation to that table, with the opportunity to eavesdrop on Goodsill’s conversations with more than 70 peop...