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| © 2009 Tui Communications |
To order volumes of Pacific Voices Talk Story
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| "Pacific Voices Talk Story will be an explosion!" |
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| - George Kahumoku, Jr. of A HAWAIIAN LIFE |
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| "Congratulations on a great job. Very interesting interviews even though I have never been further in the Pacific than Ocean Beach in San Francisco." |
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| - Prof. Mark Riley, Languages, CSUS |
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| "It's wonderful work you are doing . . ." |
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| - Ryan Yip, Filmmaker |
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Since 1988 ~ Tui Communications
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Vintage collectibles, ephemera, arts 'n crafts, old & new books with a focus on the myth (Children of Paradise) & reality (Invisible Minority) of Islanders transplanted in the mainland USA. With you in mind, welcome to unique online shopping that takes you back & welcomes you "home on the range" or wherever you are!
Don't forget: Your purchase (or see CONTRIBUTION category) supports Pacific Voices Talk Story: Conversations of American Experience, a book series of oral histories by Islanders living the American Dream (or not).
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WORLD SALE! + Pacific Voices Talk Story, Vol. 1 SOLD OUT
Hear that? That's the sound of neuro-transmitters striking overtime, THINKING up ways to do business in this challenging economy. What came to mind is the tried-n-true Yard Sale which I've renamed WORLD SALE on my site! NO haggling necessary because items will be LOW to begin with!
CLICK on category WORLD SALE at left for GREAT BARGAINS on unique & wonderful NON-PACIFIC listings. Check it out & be surprised at Yard Sale PRICES. And SO WHAT if USPS keeps upping postage rates! Tui Communications STILL offers FREE SHIPPING IN THE USA. International customers receive a $5.00 DISCOUNT on USPS rates for purchases over $50.00!! Each customer receives excellent personal service with safe, secure payment processing. It's WIN-WIN! You get a deal & I make a sale. YEAH!
COME ON IN. Where in the PAN-PACIFIC, PAN-ASIA world can you do one-stop-shopping for such vintage, mid-century variety, and now, a WORLD SALE?! Right here! Detailed write-ups accompany each Tuicom item. And listings of ISLANDS & SUBJECT AREAS are improved & better than ever!
On eBay, find me as kavatwister, auctioning not only Hawai'i & Pacific items, but also AMERICANA, QUALITY MISC. ITEMS, COLLECTIBLES & BOOKS. My auction prices start out low, baby!! Pls e-mail margo@tuicom.com with any Qs 24/7. Or call 707.451.8788 (PST). Want GIFT CERTIFICATES? No problem, just call 707.451.8788.
Hi Folks ... Been meaning to tell you the news that Pacific Voices Talk Story, Vol 1 is SOLD OUT & no reprint is in the stars; PVTS, Vol. 2 is ALSO almost gone. I'm defintely at a crossroads about these books & have come to a decision. Afterall, Tui Communications' credit-card buck stops w/ me. What to do?! Pls bear w/ me as I wax nostalgic ...
There I was, a Pacific postcolonial writer & grad student at CSU, Sacramento in 2000, a 4.0 English Lit major not happy w/ the limited choices for my thesis. I had an issue w/ the scarcity of Pacific Studies in academia and the absence of non-mythic stories of Islanders in the media & was kinda mad about it. I thought that unless we Islanders presented ideas ourselves, published stories ourselves, and owned up to our American Experience as People of the Pacific nobody else would. With my publishing background & love for the written word, I took on conceiving & crafting books all about us; my master's in Eng could wait ...
In 2001, I hit the road, having arranged talk-story interviews w/ Islanders around the US mainland & surprisingly in my own backyard, the sleepy suburbs of Vacaville, CA. They were all kind enough to talk w/ me for hours knowing only that I was like them, an Islander, plus a writer/publisher/field researcher interested in their American lives, their histories, families, and thoughts & feelings about leaving "paradise" behind for this "brave new world."
Two strategic plans guided me - PLAN A: my biz, Tui Communications, would fund my work on the Pacific Voices Talk Story series and their sales would pitch in for publishing to become a valuable, viable pursuit; and PLAN B: my online merchant status, w/ its *tapa*tiki*text* items, would prove itself to be the better pursuit, in terms of long-term customer interest & loyalty.
Sad to say, time's up for the Pacific Voices Talk Story book series to pique the same interest & loyalty as vintage Hawaiiana, vinyl records & collectible books I've been selling since 1988.
This told me that nothing but my own existential curiosity spurred me to create PVTS. Yep, CURIOSITY will get me every time! Questions like "Who am I?" and "What da hey am I doin' here?!" Certainly, editing & publishing the PVTS series did answer many Qs haunting me since childhood, like WHY my own family had to change journeying from Am. Samoa to Hawaii to California. BUT again, the required effort on my part to process the mounds of information Islanders shared stemmed from a love for the written word, a curious affliction for ANY islander, indeed!
So, I'm sad yet relieved PVTS isn't my obsession any more. Feeling both its loss & its trail of debt, only a miracle will rescue it from fatal obscurity. In the meantime, Pacific Voices Talk Story, Vols 2-4 remain to appease your curiosity about who we are, what we're doing here, why we left the Islands & yet still YEARN to breathe the ocean...
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