Eyeglasses Are In! New styles, shapes and colors of Kona's favorite reading glasses are here. We've expanded our selection because we can't resist these fun glasses.  Come look them over!
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 Elena Athena is back. Angel Readings- Fri. 2/17: 2-4pm
Clairvoyant Intuitive, Elena Athena returns. Learn what messages your angels have for you. $20 for 15 minutes. |
Folkmanis Puppets
Also arrived this week: lots of new puppets!
Rabbits and Orangutan, Lions and Pigs, Octopi and Chickens: the menagerie has arrived. | | Chicken with Kyle |
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Happy Birthday
Charles Dickens!
Charles Dickens is 200 this year. Here's a fun blog from Radhika Jones of Time Entertainment on her 10 favorite Dickens novels. In honor of Dicken's Birthday, we will give away a copy of two books in one: Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities to the first person to come in and tell us why you personally want to read these two books.. (You can call ahead, if you want to know if it's been claimed yet: 324-0350.
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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!
I'm sure you remember that this Tuesday is Valentine's day. We have cards, hand made Elena chocolates, crystal hearts- lots of great last minute valentine's gifts.
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A Special Sunday Words & Wine: Feb. 26 @ 2pm
Don't Look Back" Hawaiian Myths Made New
is a just released book of 17 tales of old Hawai'i that are lovingly re-imagined and retold for the 21st Century.
 Old meets new in this one-of-a-kind anthology. Hawai'i's best writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, W.S.Merton, Victoria Kneubuhl, Alan Brennert, the late Ian MacMillan and a dozen others present favorite myths and legends in surprising contemporary settings. We are happy to host editor and contributor Christine Thomas as well as the Big Island's own Darien Gee at this special Sunday Words and Wine on February 26th at 2pm.  | | Christine Thomas |
Christine Thomas is a graduate of Kalaheo High School, the UC Berkeley and the University of East Anglia. She was named Hawai'i's "Best New Writer" by Bamboo Ridge Press in 2008. Thomas is a former instructor in English and Creative Writing at Punahou School and Hawai'i Pacific University.
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Darien Gee is an author, wife, and mother of three. Her latest book, Friendship Bread is about life and loss, friendship and community, food and family. It tells the uplifting story of what endures when even the unthinkable happens. she has also written three novels under the name Mia King: Good Things, Sweet Life and Table Manners. To learn more about her Mia King titles, visit miaking.com.
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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 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
Our New Culinary Group: The initial meeting of this group was a big hit! Kona Stories own cooking maven, Tiare will facilitate a monthly Culinary book group which focuses on cookbooks and culinary memoirs.
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This group will continue to meet the 1st Wednesday of each month at 4pm. Please bring your favorite dish featuring the theme of the month as well as printed recipes to share with the group. Everyone is welcome and you don't need to attend each time if you cannot; just come when you can. This group is free, but donations are welcome. The them for March is: Vegetarian Dishes!
Event Info: Wednesday, March 7th at 4pm
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