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Kona Stories
Your Local Community Bookstore
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Our favorite holiday character 'The Grinch' is here!
The Grinch's first visit to Kona Stories is Saturday, November 26th. Subsequent visits are on Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. Dec. 3, 10 & 17.
You can bring your own camera or we'll take the picture and e-mail it to you. Only at Kona Stories.
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Saturday is Small Business Saturday
We believe that this photo shows what small business is all about: us! Small businesses are about our friends and neighbors, our community. We all are what makes our town and island special. So, this Saturday and this season, shop at as many small business as possible. Small Business Saturday
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Doreen Virtue
Doreen Virtue will join us on Thursday, Jan. 5th at 6pm. This free event will feature a guided meditation for the New Year followed by a book signing.
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Extended hours-
beginning November 29th:
Monday: 10am - 6pm
Tues, Wed, Thurs & Fri: 10am-8pm
Sat: 10am-6pm
Sun: 11am-5pm
Closed Thanksgiving day
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
Busy times begin! Gift wrap by AdvoCATS on Saturday beginning at 10am. Grinch pictures from 10am to 2pm. Come on down.
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Words & Wine December 6th: Keiki Book Authors
Mark your calendar for our next Words & Wine on Tuesday December 6th at 6pm when we will feature these authors:
 Karen Spachner, illustrator,Volcano Adventures of Keikilani
Heidrun Metzler, Skeeter's Dreams
Kathryn Jensen, Splash!
Nancy Kell, Pearl Makes Pono with illustrator Harley Kell.
More on each of these authors and books in our next e-mail or visit our website: Kona Stories.
Special for this event: we'll give a 15% discount to anyone wishing to donate one of these books to the Mobil Outreach Program. This program works with families to enrich, encourage and broaden child/parent interactions through the dynamics of play and strengthening of families through positive nurturing approaches.
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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 Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht is the topic for the next meeting of this group. Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Obreht, the youngest of "The New Yorker's" 20 best American fiction writers under 40, spins a timeless novel about a young doctor who confronts the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death.
Event Info:
Tuesday, December 13th
Our next book will be Trumpet by Jackie Kay. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, as the reminiscences of those who knew him form the basis for a moving portrait of a shared life founded on an intricate lie. "(A) hypnotic story".--"Time".
Event Info:
Tuesday, December 20th
6:30pm
Just the Facts: Our Non-Fiction Group:
We are reading Vermeer's Hat:The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook. In the hands of award-winning historian Brook, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought -from Delft to Beijing- were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
Event Info:
Tuesday December 27th
6pm
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This week's book quote: "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to quit reading them." -Ray Bradbury
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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