Post Christmas Sale Continues through Sunday, January 8.
You can still take advantage of our After Christmas sale on these items:
Selected Hardcover Books, Christmas cards, mugs, CD's, most ornaments and other Christmas items- half price; Mele Kalikimaka Tee Shirts $5 off.
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Holiday hours
Closed New Years Day 1/1 Monday 1/2:Open 10am-3pm
Tues-Sat 10am-6pm
Sunday 11am-5pm
We will not hold our usual "Words and Wine" in January. We're having the Doreen Virtue New Year's event instead. "Words & Wine" will be back for February.
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How many books did you read last year?
Here is the list of best sellers for last year in Independent Bookstores across the country:
2011 Best SellersOur 2nd Tuesday group read 9 of the 15 fiction books on the list. Make yourself a promise to read two more books in 2012. Our book groups can help.
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Here's to a Happy LOCAL New Year!
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all our friends and customers who made this December a good one for Kona Stories. With your help, we will continue to do our best in 2102 to bring you outstanding books, toys, cards and gifts and add to the uniqueness of our community. We wish you a 2012 filled with delight, good health and good books.
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Doreen Virtue: Thursday, January 5th at 6pm.
Doreen Virtue will lead a New Year's Healing and Manifestation Meditation to help you start 2012 off right.
Doreen Virtue is a spiritual doctor of psychology and a fourth-generation metaphysician who works with the angelic, elemental, and ascended-master realms in her writings and workshops. Doreen is the author of more than 20 books about angels, chakras, crystal children, indigo children, health and diet, and other mind-body-spirit issues, including the best-selling "Healing with the Angels" and "Messages from Your Angels" books/angel cards. After this free event, Doreen will personalize any of her books or cards. Join us on Thursday, January 5th at 6pm. No reservations required.
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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
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is the topic for the next meeting of this group. Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
Event Info:
Tuesday, January 10th
Our next book is Gender Outlaws:The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein. Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transsexual woman, Gender Outlaw breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed.
Event Info:
Tuesday, January 17th
6:30pm
Just the Facts: Our Non-Fiction Group:
We will discuss Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah Swiss at the next meeting of this group. The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.Event Info: Tuesday, January 24th 6pm
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As the year ends, let's talk about book endings. "Books with terrific conclusions are hard to find, they're even harder to talk about", says Laura Miller in this fun Salon article. My favorite ending (Joy here) is from The Sun Also Rises where Jake says to Brett, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" But, as she says in the article, to get the full meaning, you have to have read the book.
Your local independent booksellers, Brenda and Joy (Owners) Noble and Shadow (Cats) |
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