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When a high-profile politico discovers love in a hostess bar, he finds the road to romance is paved with some deep and startling secrets.A rising political star ousted from the mayor's cabinet stumbles into "one of those bars"-the type not mentioned in polite society-and that's when the unthinkable happens.A beautiful, mysterious bargirl-just as emotionally damaged as he is-turns out to be the one woman who can soothe his ego and mend his heart. She says she's just there to sell fantasies...and anyone with eyes can see that Glenn's buying in-big time. Maya's keeping a lot of secrets, but the biggest one is that she's fallen just as hard.Even if the love is real, how long can it last when it's built on buying and selling the illusion of intimacy one drink at a time? How many Tuesday nights will it take before all the nights of the week can be just his? Can a dream come true when it's wrapped in so many secrets? Is love real if you never tell the one you love? In Fifty-Three Tuesdays, G.K. Nakata spins a slow-burning, passionate story of star-crossed lovers who could-just maybe-prove that love conquers all. Glenn: "Only one woman's been able to fill the dark hole in my soul, to soothe my rage, to wipe away tears long spent. And now she's gone."Maya: "It's a business. I told him it's a fantasy. But I fell for him. Didn't tell him. I can't. I won't. He's just like all the others."

Passionate and adventurous, Kathy Clarke has always believed in her own abilities and refused to let one day go by without being lived to its fullest. Maybe that''s what happens when you''re accidentally shot point-blank with a .22 rifle at age three and a half and you live to tell about it.A challenging childhood prepared Clarke to accept life''s capriciousness. "It seemed like a really good idea at the time..." could be her life''s motto. "Good ideas" like dropping everything to strike out across the western plains in search of a meaningful relationship; acquiring a home menagerie consisting of multiple St. Bernards, a pissed-off cat, three turtles, a tortoise, a hamster named after a loser boyfriend and a housebroken baby goat; or building a career while raising seven children. In lively and humorous prose, Clarke invites readers of My Life Is a Road Atlas along for the ride as she recalls her nomadic childhood, a roster of not-so-forgotten lovers and the controlled chaos of being a mother of seven "decent and imperfect human beings"-oh, yes, and that time that she got shot. Compelled by the pandemic-induced Hawai''i visitor industry shutdown to finally sit still, Clarke spent her time writing her memoirs, causing some anxiety to her children. "Memories are how life teaches you when you are not looking," she muses. "In the next life, I hope I gain wisdom at a much younger age, considering how long it took me to acquire any this time around." Readers may not wish for a wiser Clarke, who one can only imagine would have fewer "good ideas" to laugh and cry over. The Hali''a Aloha Series publishes personal essays, memoir, poetry and prose. The series celebrates moments big and small, harnessing the power of short forms to preserve the lived experiences of the storytellers.

"You learn pretty quickly that the intellectual life of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard is different from the real world." In earning degrees from three prestigious Ivy League universities, Mel Masuda learned valuable lessons that went far beyond the curriculum-from ethics to dealing with intolerance to the value of his working-class roots. Now, in this concise, candid primer, Masuda reveals the "Lucky 7 Lessons" they don't teach in the classrooms of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard.

When a vacation offers an escape from yet another brutal Minnesota winter, it turns into an unexpected calling. In a leap of faith, Ric d. Stark leaves his mainland home behind and moves to Hawai'i, changing the course of his life forever.