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n this issue: Book Clubs, Keiki Story Time, and Harry Potter
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Keiki Story Time is Wednesday, June 29th @ 10:30AM
This month we explore the wonderful world of camping!
 With the help of the AAUW, Kona Stories Book Store hosts a monthly story time for children ages 3 - 6 years old. We will have stories, a craft, activities, and a snack!  Please check in at the book store about 10 minutes early and then join the fun in the courtyard under the tents.
A big thank-you to story time sponsor Stefanie of Blue Journey Farm; you can find her at the
Keauhou Farmers Market every Saturday.
Space is limited so please RSVP@808-324-0350 or [email protected]. There is a $5.00 participation fee to cover crafts and snack AND children receive a $5.00 coupon to use in the bookstore after story time.
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 We will close early on the fourth of July
Hours Monday, July 4: 10am to 2pm
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Come to a Book Group.
Our groups are fun and easy. It's even OK if you don't finish the book. Pick a genre: fiction, non-fiction or travel; bring a light pupu or beverage, and enjoy! For our next fiction choice click
here; for travel click
here.
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"Just the Facts"- Our non-fiction group: June 28 @6:00pm
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The Unthinkable
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We are reading
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why by
Amanda Ripley.
Discover how human beings react to danger and what makes the difference between life and death. Award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history's epic disasters, from the explosion of the Mont Blanc munitions ship in 1917 to the journeys of the 15,000 people who found their way out of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. To understand the science behind the stories, Ripley turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts. She even has her own brain examined by military researchers and experiences, through realistic simulations, what it might be like to survive a plane crash into the ocean or to escape a raging fire. Ripley comes back with precious wisdom about the surprising humanity of crowds, the elegance of the brain's fear circuits, and the stunning inadequacy of many of our evolutionary responses. Most unexpectedly, she discovers the brain's ability to do much, much better with just a little help.
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Words & Wine Preview for Tuesday, July 5th at 6pm:
(more at konastories.com)
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Sandy Cameli
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Sandy Cameli: A Happy a Day Keeps the Grouchies Away, a picture book composed through rhyme to help children identify the positives in everyday life through the perspective of everyday friends and family.
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James Charles
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James Charles:
My War with Hemingway, a novel about Zach, a young veteran who contemplates suicide after a horrific tour in Afghanistan when Ernest Hemingway appears and stops him.
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James Prattas
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James Prattas: P
TSD, Heroes Odyssey, a story about PTSD and the author's personal odyssey and the Vietnam War experience. It's about experiencing tragedy, horror, disbelief, shock and awe, and dying and being reborn.
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Aki Imai
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Aki Imai: Our Nostalgic Heritage: Growing Up in a Place Once Called Ola'a. Akinori "Aki" Imai was born in 1928 in the sugar plantation community of Olaa, now known as Keaau, where he resided until his graduation from Hilo High School in June, 1946.
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Coming on July 31st: Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth Harry Potter story, and the first to officially be presented on stage. It will receive its world premiere in London's West End on 30th July 2016.
It will be released in book form on July 31, 2016.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.
Reserve your copy now:
[email protected]
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 E-book sales have been dropping; Flavorwire asks the question "Do Readers have digital fatigue?"
BuzzFeed brings us "21 things to do when a book breaks your damn heart". I have thrown a book across the room more than once when I didn't like the ending (This is Joy).
If you think you might want some book-ishly "geeky decorations for your garden", check out this Quirk Books link.
For fans of Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, or both, here is a recent conversation between the two of them from For Reading Addicts.
Aloha and a hui hou,
Brenda and Joy, owners
Shadow and Noble, cats
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