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Jill Engledow

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Jill Engledow is an award-winning writer who specializes in Maui history. Born in England, she grew up in Texas, Hawaii and Guam and moved to Maui, Hawaii, in 1968. Her love affair with this beautiful island quickly became a long-term relationship. After working for 17 years as a reporter and editor at The Maui News, Jill turned to freelance writing. Her nonfiction books include
* Island Life 101: A Newcomer's Guide to Hawaii
* Haleakala: A History of the Maui Mountain
*Sugarcane Days: Remembering Maui's Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company
* The Story of Lahaina

Her first novel, The Island Decides, is the first in The Maui Trilogy, novels about independent women making their lives on Maui. The second is A Dollar and Love, which follows the stor
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The Island Decides

3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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The Story of Lahaina

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Rose's War

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Haleakala: A History of the...

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A Dollar and Love

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Island Life 101: A Newcomer...

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Maui 101

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Exploring Historic Maui

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Exploring Historic Upcountry

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The Spirit Lives on

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Hapa haole Music Has Its Own List of Hits

Hula maidens, rolling surf and “the perfume of a million flowers”—it’s an image familiar to those for whom the Islands are a faraway dream, an image often based on the music known as hapa haole. Hapa haole (half foreign) music usually has English lyrics with a sprinkling of Hawaiian words. Born in the early 1900s, […]
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