[bksvol-discuss] Re: [bookshare-discuss] Just submitted
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:29:02 -0500
Cool! I really hope someone picks up this book soon.
People interested in this book may also wish to check out a non-fiction
title I submitted a year or so ago called, "The Colony," by John Taiman,
2007, which is probably the best single volume history of the colony at
Kalapaupa, Moloka'i.
Briaan Miller
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From: solsticesinger [mailto:solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:52 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just submitted
Hi, all.
I have just submitted Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. It got a 99.7 rating. The
scan is clean, but there are tons of Japanese and Hawaiian words, not to
mention some Pigeon English that will throw off the overall rating. I had to
have a sighted person look over several passages just to make sure they were
correct.
If you have any questions, contact me at:
solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx
Here's the synopsis:
Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting
far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a
rose-colored
mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from
her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy
settlement
on the island of Moloka'i. Here her life is supposed to end---but instead
she discovers it is only just beginning. With a vibrant cast of vividly
realized
characters, Moloka'i is the true-to-life chronicle of a people who embraced
life in the face of death.
Shannon
"The different among us tell our stories because we are all only human and
so much need a witness to the truth,"
Claudia Bepko
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