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Kona Stories
Your Local Independent Booksellers
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Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawaii
We're excited about a new book on Georgia O'Keeffe's time in Hawaii:
For three months in 1939, Georgia O'Keeffe visited Hawai'i and painted the Islands' tropical plants and landscapes, capturing their essence and beauty. During two weeks on Maui, 12-year-old Patricia Jennings served as O'Keeffe's guide and companion. O'Keeffe's letters and paintings give us a view of the Islands through the lens of the great American artist. Author Patricia Jennings will join us for our next Words & Wine on Tuesday, November 1st at 6pm.
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School or Library Book Donations
We'd like to do a holiday program to help donate books to local schools or libraries. If you are affiliated with a local school or library, give us a call (324-0350) or e-mail. We'd love to kick around some ideas with you.
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Gift Wrap Fund Raiser
We have a self-serve gift wrap station set up in the store on an on-going basis. However, we'd like to offer your non-profit group the opportunity to do gift wrap in the Keauhou courtyard on Saturdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We provide the materials and table, you do the wrapping and collect donations. Call us if you have a group that might be interested. 324-0350 or
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
 | Our Halloween Crew 2010
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I'm hearing about all sorts of Halloween events around town next Saturday, but one of the best is sure to be the Keauhou Shopping Center's 'Ohana Halloween Pa'ina. Music, keiki activities, costume contests. Check out the details here: Keauhou Halloween event. October 29th from 4 to 9pm. Hard to believe, but this event marks one year for Kona Stories at Keauhou! |
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Book Groups and more.
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting" -Edmund Burke. Come reflect with our fun book groups.
Just the Facts: our non-fiction book group:
This month we're reading Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant. As Vaillant re-creates the extraordinary events relating to the hunt for a a man-killing tiger, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature's most deadly predator.
Event Info:
Tuesday, October 25th
6pm
Second Tuesday: our fiction book group.
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman is the topic for the next meeting of this group. Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English language newspaper in Rome. "Each chapter is so finely wrought that it could stand alone as a memorable short story. Slowly, the separate strands become entwined and the line characters have drawn between their work and home lives is erased" -The Financial Times.
Event Info:
Tuesday, November 8th
6:30pm
Our Lesbian group:
Our next book will be Sing you Home by Jodi Picoult. For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe Baxter throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people--even those she loves and trusts most--don't want that to happen.
Event Info:
Tuesday, November 15th
6:30pm
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The National Book Award finalists have been announced to much hand-ringing over being too obscure: How the National Book Awards made them selves irrelevant. One nominee, The Tiger's Wife will arrive in paperback at Kona Stories on November 2nd; it is the December book for our Fiction group. Meanwhile, over in the UK, the Mann Booker Prize is being criticized for focusing too much on 'readability'; see: Report from England Sometimes, you just can't win! I love the quote at the end of this article from the novelist Jeanette Winterson ( Oranges are Not the Only Fruit). She wrote of great literature: "There is a simple test: 'Does this writer's capacity for language expand my capacity to think and to feel?' ". Which is why you should: "Wear the old coat, buy the new book" -Austin Phelps Your local independent booksellers,
Brenda and Joy (Owners)
Noble and Shadow (Cats)
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Kona Stories | 78-6831 Alii Drive Suite #142 | Kailua-Kona | HI | 96740
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