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    <body><![CDATA[This is an enjoyable and easy reading book charting the history of the leper colony on Molokai, a sort of popular history of the exiles there.  I don't begrudge it these things, and in fact I often marvel at how entertaining some of these historical non-fiction accounts can be.  But at heart, I'm a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80017169">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting.  However this book stirred up a lot of emotion in Hawaii because the author apparently was not always historically or factually accurate.  Apparently he took a lot of liberties with the story.  Very interesting read though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually have a hard time getting through non-fiction, but the content was so interesting that I had to keep reading -- fast. The story is sad, but I found fascinating the necessary moral dilemma at the heart of the book: at what point do we deprive those who are dangerous (through no fault of thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38772085">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a non-fiction book about the leper colony on Molokai, Hawaii.  It was fascinating, very sad and full of the triumph of the human spirit.  People who took something so miserable, an exiled life and a horrible disease, and lived lives of worth anyway.  It was also about the people who served ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45473813">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting information about Molokai and it's leper colony. When you think lepers you think ancient history but this colony was extinguished not so long ago. This is a depiction of yet another set of people in our society who have been persecuted, outcasted and deemed less than human. I found this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73124359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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