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Aroha Tane is a Māori poet and traditional healer whose work draws from the deep wells of ancestral memory, grief, and the restorative power of the Pacific. Her debut collection, Tide and Bone, was called 'a revelation of language and loss' by Pacific literary circles.
Tide and Bone
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Mele Fonoti is a Samoan-New Zealand memoirist whose writing excavates the tender, complicated terrain of growing up between cultures. Her memoir, The Breadfruit Tree, is a love letter to her family and a reckoning with belonging.
The Breadfruit Tree
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Sione Kealoha is a Hawaiian-Tongan writer and traditional navigator whose debut book, Star Roads, translates the ancient Polynesian art of wayfinding into a guide for living with purpose, presence, and courage.
Star Roads
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Hina Makoa is a Cook Islands Māori novelist whose fiction blends oral tradition, mythology, and contemporary Pacific life into stories that feel both timeless and urgently now.
The Moon Fishers
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J.T. Burger is a Napa, California-based author, humanitarian, and fierce believer in the human spirit. His book One Too Many confronts one of the most urgent questions of our time: when AI and robotics reshape the world of work, where do we find meaning? Burger traveled to the world's ten most suicide-prone places to find out — and came back with hope.
One Too Many
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Jolie Ball is the author of Cherish Anyway, a memoir about how the secret, beauty, and faith in humanity kept her going. The book is coming soon, hoped for mid-October.
Cherish Anyway
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Robert Genzaki is the author of The Way of the Ground, a meditative guide to presence, stillness, and the forgotten wisdom of being rooted. His writing draws from Zen philosophy, somatic practice, and a lifetime of paying close attention.
The Way of the Ground
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Max T. Burns writes fiction for Vaka to Vitality. Titles will be listed here as they are ready to order.
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Steven J. Peterson writes for Vaka to Vitality. Titles will be listed here as they are ready to order.
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Djavad Rahimi writes for Vaka to Vitality. Titles will be listed here as they are ready to order.
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