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Akibu

Published
Jan 2004
Main Genre
Fantasy Fantasy
Pages
296

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It is 1941. Red haired, fifteen year old GLORIANNA HAMILTON helps her parents operate the missionary school on Shima-Shima, a tropical island in the South Pacific. Her friend and confidant is MISAWU, an island native, with whom she explores the beaches and learns the natives think she is the reincarnation of their red haired goddess, AKIBU. Glorianna puts no credence in this fable, but find it amusing and sometimes useful. She is a restless, romantic teenager, longing for adventure.

On the beach the two girls meet PHILLIP SHERIDAN, a young American, recovering from a misadventure at sea. Glorianna takes him home to meet her parents, who assure themselves that the two are always chaperoned in the following weeks. The couple manage to fall in love. Phillip arranges for passage home, planning to bring Glorianna with him as his bride. At first, Pearl Harbor and the consequent war seem not to change their plans. But on Christmas day, The Japanese destroy the mission, and both Glorianna and Phillip believe each other to be dead. Misawu leads Glorianna away to safety in the wild mountainous area of Shima-Shima. Phillip is smuggled off the island to return home to the USA and enlists as a Navy airman. We follow his adventures and exploits as he serves in the war. Neither Phillip nor Glorianna can forget each other.

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First Edition Jan 2004 Denlingers Pub Ltd ISBN13 9780877143000 ISBN10 0877143005
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