Davenport, Kiana

Shark dialogues by Kiana Davenport( Book )
9 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 797 libraries worldwide
Epic of a Polynesian Hawaiian family, a story of daring passionate women and men, their losses and triumphs, their comedies and tragedies, their anguish and joy

Song of the exile by Kiana Davenport( Book )
10 editions published between 1999 and 2013 in English and held by 785 libraries worldwide
A love story on a young Hawaiian couple who are separated by World War II. While in Shanghai he, a jazz musician, is jailed by the occupying Japanese while she is forced to become a comfort woman

House of many gods : a novel by Kiana Davenport( Book )
12 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in English and held by 702 libraries worldwide
Working with the injured following a hurricane on the island of Kauai, Ana, a physician abandoned by her mother and raised by native Hawaiian relatives, has an encounter with Niki, a Russian documentary filmmaker with his own turbulent past

Song of the exile by Kiana Davenport( Sound Recording )
9 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in English and held by 124 libraries worldwide
Keo is a Hawaiian-born musician who rides the jazz wave from Honolulu to New Orleans to Paris. Sunny, his love, meets him in Paris during World War II, but must make a desperate mission to Shanghai to locate her sister. Sunny is captured by the Japanese and finds herself at the mercy of a demented Japanese officer

The Best American short stories. [selected stories] ( Sound Recording )
4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 121 libraries worldwide

Spy lover : a novel by Kiana Davenport( Book )
1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 109 libraries worldwide
Thrust into the savagery of the U.S. Civil War, a Chinese immigrant fighting for the Union Army, a nurse turned spy, and a one-armed Confederate cavalryman find their lives inextricably entwined. Johnny Tom, a Chinese immigrant, is promised American citizenship if he serves with the Union Army. But first he must survive the carnage of battles and rampant racism among the ranks. Desperate to find him, his daughter, Era, becomes a Union spy while nursing soldiers in Confederate camps. She falls in love with Warren, a one-armed cavalryman, and her loyalties become divided between her beloved father in the North and the man who sustains her in the South

Haifischfrauen : ein Hawaii-Roman by Kiana Davenport( Book )
11 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in German and held by 35 libraries worldwide
The saga of a Hawaiian family, beginning in 1834 with the meeting of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor and a runaway Tahitian princess. It traces the family's fortunes all the way to the present, incorporating a great deal of history: whaling, labor unions, earthquakes and the Vietnam War. The author is of mixed Hawaiian and Anglo-American descent

Prize stories, 1999 : the O. Henry awards ( Book )
1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 33 libraries worldwide

Figlie dell'oceano by Kiana Davenport( Book )
4 editions published in 1995 in Italian and held by 24 libraries worldwide

The spy lover a novel by Kiana Davenport( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide
Fleeing drought and famine in China, Johnny Tom arrives in America with dreams of becoming a citizen. Having survived vigilantes hunting 'yellow dogs' and slave auction blocks, Johnny is kidnapped from his Mississippi village by Confederate soldiers, taken from his wife and daughter, and forced to fight for the South. Eventually defecting to the Union side, he is promised American citizenship in exchange for his loyal services