THE GOLDMAN STATE

THE GOLDMAN STATE




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“Hula” Celebrates a Dance, a Culture and a Novelist’s Dazzling Debut

“Hula” Celebrates a Dance, a Culture and a Novelist’s Dazzling Debut

“Hula,” the dazzling debut novel of Hawaii native and onetime Sacramentan Jasmin Iolani Hakes, is an eye-opener for anyone whose sensibilities about the 50th state were shaped by an Elvis movie (“Blue Hawaii”), TV series (“Hawaiian Eye“ and either version of “Magnum P.I.” and “Hawaii Five-O”). Or even Don Ho (“Tiny Bubbles”).

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Tammi J. Truax Adds Verse to the Universe

Tammi J. Truax Adds Verse to the Universe

A poet laureate spreads the word about art—and a notable First LadyBy Ed Goldmanhile she lives in Eliot, Maine, Tammi J. Truax is the poet laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  But, she says, “I work in Portsmouth and when I leave my cottage, I...

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Death Didn’t Become Her: How Joyce Mikal-Flynn Fights for the Living

Death Didn’t Become Her: How Joyce Mikal-Flynn Fights for the Living

In all likelihood, Professor Joyce Mikal-Flynn has been dead more times than you have.

Mikal-Flynn, 66, who died a little more than 30 years ago, has a new book in hard copy, e-book and audio formats due out April 27, “Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit & Growth After Trauma.” It’s being published by Post Hill Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster corporation.

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