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Kona Stories
Your Local Independent Booksellers
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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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Why Buy Local
With the holiday season starting we want to take a minute to remind you to shop local. What does 'Buy Local' mean? It can mean different things: The most local is buying something made on, from and by someone on this island. The least local is buying on-line or from a national chain. For every $100 you spend at a local business, $68 will stay in this community compared to only $49 from a national chain and when you buy on-line ZERO $ stays in your community. This year we have been working on bringing in more new products made here in Hawaii. We now have a table in the front of the store designated for those products. So if you are looking to keep your money local come to Kona Stories.
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NPR: Kids' Book Club
NPR has kicked-off their kids' bookclub with one of my favorite kids books The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Learn more about this group and amazing author at: NPR's Back Seat Book Club.
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This Week's Book Quote
"Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed." -Ann Rice, The Witching Hour
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
Yes, we have in stock two of the hottest new books: Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; (Read a review here: A Magical Mystery Tour) and Steve Jobs by Isaacson; (Read a review here: Steve Jobs: Insanely Great.) (on sale for $27).
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Words & Wine: Tuesday, Nov. 1 @6pm
Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i:
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 showing her lush valleys and hills of Wailuku and the plunging waterfalls, lava bridges and  black sand beaches of Hana. The bond formed between the pre-teen and the American icon lasted a life-time. 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 and share her memories of this legendary artist.
Vatican FileSS and Black Sabbath.
Also joining us is author Jason Denaro. "My works are heavily researched and in the most part, steeped in history. I introduce a fictional story line to provide flow to the factual background of each adventure. I've found that this is a great way to get readers thinking about what the heck is going on in this insane world. It hands me the reigns. I can steer the reader's mind through a labyrinth of world events, a much wider freeway than the narrow alley of an artist's canvas." Meet this author on Tuesday.
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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.
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
Just the Facts: our non-fiction book group:
This month we're reading The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey. Casey follows a unique tribe of extreme surfers as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100-foot wave. In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Laird Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves.
Event Info:
Tuesday, November 22nd
6pm
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As a left-hander (Joy here), I've always had terrible handwriting (goes with my bad spelling, I suppose), so I can't work-up too much sorrow about this article: Handwriting: An elegy. Meanwhile, all of us lefties may need to read this book: The Mystery of left-handedness. 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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