World Book Night
There's still time to sign up! The goal of this event is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading and to share your passion for a great book.
World Book Night is looking for book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone's life. Joy's already been approved as a book distributor and we've submitted Kona Stores to be a book collection location. Please sign up by Feb. 6. 2012.
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Don't Look Back
In Don't Look Back: Hawaiian Myths Made New, just released by Watermark Publishing,
editor Christine Thomas has collected 17 tales of old Hawai'i-lovingly re-imagined and retold
for the 21st century. Old meets new in this one-of-a-kind anthology, as Hawai'i's best writers-
Maxine Hong Kingston, W.S. Merwin, Victoria Kneubuhl, Alan Brennert, the late Ian MacMillan and a dozen others including Thomas herself-present favorite myths and legends in surprising contemporary settings. Here, the reader finds Pele in therapy, Maui as a superhero, the cannibal
king Oahu Nui in a world of shady deals and political corruption, the star-crossed naupaka lovers as Honolulu high-school sweethearts and other updated versions of Island legends. 
We will host Christine Thomas and the Big Island's own, Darien Gee at a special event on Sunday, February 26 at 2pm.
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This week's quote:
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." -Joseph Brodsky
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Hours
Monday-Sat: 10am-6pm
Sunday 11am-5pm
Open later for events in the store or in the courtyard.
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Quick Links....
808-324-0350
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Aloha!
This Tuesday's Words and Wine authors will take us from a novel Eve, the first woman to a satiric thriller featuring Hard Candy, a stripper. You're not going to find a line-up like this anywhere else!
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Words & Wine: Tuesday, February 7 @6pm
We happy to host these four visiting authors for our next Words & Wine. Two of them have been with us before and two are new. Please come and welcome them to the Big Island.
Ken Cohen is the author of The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing and Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing.
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He is a renowned health educator, Qigong Master, and practitioner of indigenous medicine. You can learn more about Ken at his web site: KennethCohen.com.
Grace Alvarez Sesma, a curandera (healer) of Mexican/Yaqui heritage, has studied with several indigenous healers from Mexico as well as the United States, principally with the noted elder, Yaqui/Lacandon Maya Medicine Man, Tezkalci Matorral Kachora. She is featured in the book Meditations for Interspiritual Wisdom ed. by Netanel Miles-Yepez. Her web site is curanderismo.org/.
In her mesmerizing first novel, Eve, Elissa Elliott
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blends biblical tradition with recorded history to put a powerful new twist on the story of creation's first family. "Put[s] a definite female spin on the familiar saga... Readers who loved Anita Diamant's The Red Tent will welcome this fresh addition to the biblical fiction genre." -Booklist. You can read an excerpt from her book at elissaelliott.com/eve/.
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Ron Talney is an attorney retired from a private, non-profit legal aid program. He has recently published a novel, Nockers Up!, a satiric thriller featuring Hard Candy, a stripper by night and college student by day. Rarely has a mix of sex, mayhem and death been so entertaining. Read more at rontalney.com/.
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Culinary Book Club: A New Group.
Interested in cooking, cookbooks and talking about same? Kona Stories own cooking maven, Tiare wants to start a Culinary book group to focus on cookbooks and culinary memoirs. The February theme is chocolate. 
The first meeting of this group will be February 8th from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Please bring your favorite dish featuring chocolate as well as a printed recipe to share with the group. We also hope you'll bring ideas for future themes and books. If you're unable to make this day and time, but would like to participate, please let us know what would work for you: e-mail us.
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Book Groups!
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting" -Edmund Burke. Come reflect with our fun book groups.
Second Tuesday- Our Fiction Group:
This group is reading A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend.
Event Info: Tuesday, February 14th at 6:30pm
Next up for our lesbian group is Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg. In a steam-filled diner in a college town, 17-year-old Flannery Jansen meets a remote, brilliant older woman who soon becomes her idol. A bittersweet, sentimental education, "Pages for You" confirms Sylvia Brownrigg as "one of the most exuberantly agile minds among younger American writers" Dan Cryer,Newsday.
Event Info: Tuesday, February 21st at 6:30pm
Just the facts- Our non-fiction Group:
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff is the next book for this group. "Hugely compelling...Schiff sifts through gauzy mythology to uncover a brilliant young woman."-- Vogue
Event Info: Tuesday, February 28th at 6pm
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In the 'completely ridiculous' category comes the banning of Mexican American books by the Tucson Unified School District. This was in response to a recent state law that prohibits teaching anything that is designed "primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group". Um, note to AZ: the Spanish were there before the English...You can read about the American Booksellers Protest efforts here: bookweb.org
Last, Kona Stories is switching to an new e-mail address. You can reach us at:
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Your local independent booksellers, Brenda and Joy (Owners) Noble and Shadow (Cats) |
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