Set in contemporary Hawaii, The Tattoo reveals a side of paradise not usually seen as it traces the life of Ken Hideyoshi, a young man with a troubled past. orphaned by his mother at an impressionably young age, Ken grows up with an abusive, distant father unable to communicate anything but anger. His teen years are spent on a roller coaster as he tries to deal with a growing inner rage.

The Tattoo

Literature & Fiction

Chris McKinney

Contemporary

Mutual Publishing

Chris McKinney’s The Queen of Tears is the story of Soong Nan Lee, a former Seoul movie star, exploring her familial struggles and her childhood trek across war-torn Korea. Now entering into mass publication, this book demonstrates McKinney’s ability to evoke “Honolulu’s lower depths with an insider’s authority and the zeal of a real writer” (Tom Farber). Declared “the most important young writer in Hawai’i today” by the local press, McKinney exhibits stunning prose and profound explorations of character and interconnection on a level not only warranting, but demanding mainland distribution. The Queen of Tears is a must read for anyone who has, at some point, wrestled with family obligation and personal ambition.

The Queen of Tears

United States

From the author of best-selling The Tattoo and Queen of Tears, Bolohead Row is the story of a Honolulu family surviving the only way they know how, through the numbing affects of various addictions; alcohol, drugs – or computer games. Chris McKinney's talent for being brutally honest when creating characters makes the reader a part of the story. The story becomes their life, their friends and their quest for the meaning in life. Bolohead Row is a story everyone will identify with, whether they choose to admit it or not.

Bolohead Row

Mythology & Folk Tales

Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop. In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps. The Motts, new home owners in one of suburban Mililaniâ€™s fastest growing enclaves, crave the American Dream while the Krills, now homeless in Waiâ€˜anae, are nearly destroyed by it. The fate of both families collide as Banyan Mott searches for answers after his new house becomes haunted by its previous owner, and Kai Krill fights to get out from under the tent and off the beach. As their story unfolds, Kaiâ€™s son, Josh, has to deal with why his father snapped, which in the end enables him to discover what it is to be a real man.

Mililani Mauka

After social services rescues three abused children Shane, Boi, and Glory from a junked city bus, a state senator and his beauty queen wife adopt one, a taro farmer and a hula dancer take in another, and the only girl ends up back in the clutches of their druggie mother. When these siblings later reunite as young adults, conflicts rise as they battle their grim pasts and attempt to break from their ill-fated trajectories. Boi no Good is about a rich kid trying to be tough, a criminal with a gruesome past who will do anything to stay free, and a juvenile delinquent turned cop who wants to save the world and blow it up at the same time. When a pending law threatens to change the face of Hawaii, Boi will do anything to stop it, even if his siblings and a state senator stand in his way.

Boi No Good: A Novel of Family, Crime, and Betrayal in a Hawaii of Turmoil

Eventide, Water City

Random House Publishing Services

Neighborhoods Reimagined: How the Beatitudes Inspire our Call to be Good Neighbors

Religion & Spirituality

Elizabeth McKinney

Christian Books & Bibles

10Publishing

McKinney s seventh novel once again takes place in Hawaii's underworld of lounge bars, drugs, gambling and crime. In Japan, people believe that there are years in a person s life that are bad luck. For men, the worst is 41. It is yakudoshi. It is the age of calamity. Bruce Blanc, fresh off a nine-year prison jolt and back on the streets of Honolulu, is about to turn 41. He finds himself embroiled in urban Honolulu's Asian-American nightlife. Kids lighting up the night with cocaine and killing daylight with Xanax. Girls who spend more time looking at themselves in the mirror than Snow White s mom; the older divorcees with means who prey on them. And ninety-pound female drug lords and the cops in love with them. A new bar is opening or shutting down daily. The foundation of a new high rise is being poured every day. This is not your mom s Hawaii. It s building up, not building out. When Bruce finds out that during his incarceration, his son, who he has never met, has gone missing, he takes on drug lords, police, and anyone else who stands in the way of his discovery of the truth. Age of Calamity is about a changing world and a man who is trying to change with it. It is about how a father s love can bend his code. But most of all, it s about how the roughest year in a person s life can sometimes be the most enlightening one.

Yakudoshi: Age of Calamity

Mutual Pub Co

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