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 A big Mahalo to everyone who came to Shadow's memorial day on Saturday. We don't yet know the grand total collected for
ADVOCats, but it's getting close to $500. Watch Facebook for the final total.
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In this issue: our new web-site, book groups, and Harry Potter
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Brenda has been busy this summer implementing a new Kona Stories Web-site.
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We are excited about our new site. Some highlights include:
- More user friendly and easier to navigate.
- We can now do e-commerce from our site.
- You can build an order and request it delivered to Kona Stories for pick-up and payment.
- You can order and have your order shipped to the mainland.
- Events are easily shared on social media
New pictures to come over the next few weeks, but meanwhile, please visit konastories.com and let us know what you think; ks@konastories.com.
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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 book, see below. For non-fiction choice click
here; for travel click
here.
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"Second Tuesday"- Our fiction group: July 12 @6:30pm
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| Euphoria |
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We are reading
Euphoria, Lily King's nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the 30's caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, "Euphoria" is "dazzling ... suspenseful ... brilliant...an exhilarating novel." Boston Globe
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Our Travel and Adventure group: July 19 @6:30pm
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West with the Night |
West with the Night
, by Beryl Markham is our next book. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. She grew up in Kenya with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America, the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.
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"Just the Facts"- Our nonfiction group: July 26 @6:30pm
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| Twelve Caesars |
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We are learning about
The Twelve Caesars:The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome. This is Matthew Dennison's unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars, one of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname "sphincter artist." Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide and five of them were elevated to the status of gods.
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We are having a Harry Potter party on
Saturday, July 30th for the release of 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.
We'll share details of our all day Saturday party over the next couple of weeks, meanwhile,
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 This is fun: "Bookish Beach Style", book themed items for the beach from Quirk Books.
Planning a Jane Austin themed wedding? Buzzfeed brings you some suggestions.
If you've ever played 'dictionary game', you'll recognize how to play "the Book Game" according to The Reading Room.
Last, from Time Magazine, "12 Great Authors Pick Their Essential American Book".
Aloha and a hui hou,
Brenda and Joy, owners
Shadow, cat
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