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Kona Stories is an independent bookstore located in South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. Established in 2006 by Brenda Eng and Joy Vogelgesang, Kona Stories features over 8000 new and hard to find titles. We specialize in Island travel guide and maps, kid's books and whimsical gifts. Readers of every genre come and enjoy this South Kona treasure which features many book clubs, writers groups, workshops and author events each week. Not to be missed is the fabulous ocean view from the back Lanai where guests come to curl up on comfy chairs and read or use the free internet. Kona Stories features award winning 100% Kona Coffee and pastries to enhance your stay during your visit. Come talk story with the owners who are in the shop everyday. Store Hours Are: M-F 9:30 - 6 Sat. 9:30 - 4 For more information you can call us at 808-324-0350 or e-mail us at konastories@hawaiiantel.biz.
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Every Saturday at Kona Stories there are Author Events. Most events start at 1pm. Don't miss the opportunity to meet your favorite local author! Title of Event: Animal Communications Talk
When: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:00 PM
Location: Kona Stories
Description: An introduction to how and why one communicates with animals will be offered. A demonstration of remote dowsing and chakra read along with a book signing for Paula Brown's new book “Fur Shui” An Introduction to Animal Feng Shui.Paula Brown is an animal communicator and Feng Shui practitioner whose expertise is getting to “The Heart of Conversation” with her animal and people clients. She is located in Encinitas, CA communicating telepathically and working energetically with animals all over the world, helping to bridge understanding and healing between animals and their people.
She is known for her telepathic communications as well as her “energy reads” for her animal clients. Her pairing up of a keen interest in the energies naturally found in nature led her to apply the “chi” personalities found in Feng Shui to the animal world in her new book “Fur Shui”, An Introduction to Animal Feng Shui; a serious but light hearted romp through your energetic space from an animal’s point of view!
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Kona Stories challenges you this year to grow yourself and join a book club. What a perfect way to expand your knowledge and meet new friends. Kona Stories offers book clubs for every interest. Metaphysical, Fiction and Non-Fiction readers join together on Tuesday nights at Kona Stories for lively discussions and networking ideas. Come join…it’s FREE! Bring a pupu or beverage to share and check it out!
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Hemingway, Ernest
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time. |
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"I came to appreciate what good books really were and realized how much I needed them and they gradually gave me a stoical confidence in myself: I was not alone in this world and I would not perish!"
- Maxim Gorky
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)
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The Big Island is proud of all their Local Authors. Writer's flourish here and we at Kona Stories are proud to host them weekly in our shop.
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Fur Shui: An Introduction to Animal Feng Shui
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Brown, Paula
Whether you have a goldfish, dog, cat, or lizard, you and your pet reverberate with chi, the mystic flow of life. This is an illustrated book with a serious but entertaining overview of how we need to integrate our animals into our Feng Shui applications. Just like the elements of earth, air, fire, and water, animals are full of natural energy, innate or active, and they have a pervasive desire to be an emotional support to their humans. Our pets improve our health by curling up with us, perhaps protect our homes like sentries, and commiserate with us about work and love. By understanding the octagon of the "fur bagua," we integrate our pets' lives into the dynamic of our household, and all will live more harmoniously, whether furry, feathered, or scaly. This is the first book to introduce animals into our Feng Shui.
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Author Birthday |
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Born on this date in 1886: Karl Barth.
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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The Reserve
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Banks, Russell
Another good book by the esteemed author of so many fine novels. Over the course of one summer month during 1936 in the Adirondacks, lives unravel and secrets are revealed in unexpected ways. Combining suspense and drama, Banks is in top form as he explores themes of old money, the working class, loyalty, love and honor. Finally, he illustrates how tenuous all our societal and familial roles truly are.--Sarah Bagby, Watermark Books (Wichita, KS) |
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