Shark: 92 books

Rumor had it that Hoagie had already nailed three cheerleaders and was working on the girls in the Pep Club. Most of the girls and even some of the women teachers swooned whenever he walked by. I considered Hoagie a poacher. His age and status gave him an unfair advantage. I figured the main reason...

  My father kept Granny’s diamond ring on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet in his bathroom next to a blue jar of anti-itching cream. I saw it through the glass shelf whenever I slid the cabinet open for toothpaste. The ring haunted me. It promised no shallow glitter...

Julia Daniels, a Moloka'i pioneer woman of mixed blood, invites her grandsons Jeff and Ben to spend summers with her at her ranch on the east end. She shares the ranch with Chipper, an alcoholic war hero with a life estate bordering the swamp. The brothers roam a paradise of fishponds, waterfalls,...

Jeff and Ben Gill are out to please their grandmother by catching the prize in the Greased Pig Contest at the East End Rodeo. Later, Jeff learns an important lesson about life and death at his grandmother's ranch.

My father had decided on the Young Hotel because of Gramma’s weakness for sweets. The hotel boasted the best bakery on Oahu. He also figured she had a nostalgic interest in that hotel because she’d jitterbugged with Alan Ladd in its ballroom. Despite the bakery and the memories, Gramma was leery...

Two brothers learn a lesson of life and death on their grandmother's remote Hawaiian ranch.  

I knew Wayne could hurt me if I didn’t keep my gloves up and elbows in. But he was tiring too. I glanced past the top hose and saw Chip Morningstar and Bernie Fredman. Wayne had made it his annual tradition to write “To a Real Panty Waist” in Chip’s yearbook. He’d told Bernie his nose was...

It is a fact of history that when Neil Armstrong set Apollo 11 down on the moon he was running dangerously low on fuel. This Pushcart Prize-nominated story recounts an alternate history in which the lunar module crashed and man's journey to the moon ended not in triumph--but tragedy. A decade later,...

The Junior Class at Punahou School must think of a way to revive interest in the Haunted House, an attraction that was forced to close down in earlier years because of a lack of interest from carnival goers. What to do? How about a house that features an inner sanctum and haunts chock full of vampires!

The Fates rule human destiny. The first spins the thread of life, the second measures it, and the third CUTS. Except Fred Stewart has an in with the Greek trio. A car accident gave him the ability to see parts of the future, an ability he's exploited to make himself rich. But now darkness is rushing...

Paul Merrick had always lived a charmed life--right up until the moment when the Gulfstream he was in went down over the Sahara. Now his life has been transformed into a horrific, lurching disaster in which his very survival is in doubt. Because in the terrible new world of After the Crash, it's not...

What happens to man's best friend after man is gone? That's the question three uplifted dogs have to answer after humanity is wiped out. In a story that is by turns funny and heartbreaking a marxist Irish setter named Red and a German shepherd named Buzz follow a mutt named Church as he braves the...

The first day of eighth grade was the worst day of my life. Debbie Mills, the girl of my dreams, was in the courtyard outside Bishop Hall holding hands with the school bully, Wayne Braswell. Ben told me Wayne had treated Debbie to a summer of matinees, rides on his father’s catamaran, and cheeseburger...

A son's visit to M's Ranch House in Aina Haina with his father triggers happy memories in a relationship that has grown abusive.  They are there to celebrate Joe Frazier's victory over Ali in March, 1971.