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The power of magic is strong today at Kona Stories!
Harry Potter day has finally arrived.
Also in this issue: our Words & Wine line-up for Tuesday.
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Attention all Wizards, Witches, and Muggles!
It's Harry Potter Day: Saturday, July 30th
Get your wands at the ready and join us in celebrating the release of the highly anticipated "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child".
From Noon to 2pm we will have a variety of magical surprises and games!
We have even gotten permission to borrow the Sorting Hat!
All day: refreshments and crafts and you can say what the Harry Potter books mean to you on a special poster we will have hanging up!
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"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" |
We can't wait to celebrate!
Come in costume and you can enter to win a Hardcover Illustrated edition of
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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Words & Wine!
Tuesday, August 2 @ 6pm
Join us for refreshments, pupu, talk story, and short talks from these local authors:
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Cecilia Johanson
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Cecilia Johanson: The Canoe Maker's Son
After the death of her husband Charles Kanewa in 2003, Cecilia Johansen met his cousin a year later at a Hawaiʻi Marines Reunion. She fell in love with the handsome virile cowboy and after four months, she took a leap of faith to marry Bernard Johansen and live in the lush up-country of Waimea on Hawaiʻi Island. They were only married for five years before his untimely death. Stories from the lives of the two cousins growing up in Kapaʻahu, Puna District, and extensive research have led to her first novel The Canoe Maker's Son.
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Susan Scott |
Susan Scott: Call Me Captain
In Call Me Captain, Susan Scott recounts her venture into the daunting world of offshore sailing, bares her soul regarding her struggles with menopause and marriage, and introduces readers to remarkable Palmyra Atoll. Susan's memoir is an exciting account of that remarkable journey, merging adventure, biology, history and the complexities of human companionship. The story is for everyone for who has ever faced a major turning point, and wondered about the meaning of life. Call Me Captain is laced with humor, beauty, adventure and love.
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| D. S. Thornton |
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D. S. Thornton: Scrap City
A former graphic designer and magazine art director, D. S. Thornton lives in the Hilo area, where time is relative, gardening is serene, and there are way way way too many vowels. She writes middle-grade fantasy as well as silly sci-fi for young adults and up. She is also an accomplished artist, specializing in island themes. In Scrap City, we meet fifth-grader Jerome Barnes. When he begins to explore his local junkyard, he doesn't expect to find anything interesting. But then he comes upon Arkie. At first Arkie looks like a toy, or a robot. But Arkie isn't a toy or a robot... He's a Scrapper-a boy made of old odds and ends come to life! And what's more, there's a whole city of Scrappers right underneath the junkyard.
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"Second Tuesday" |
Come to a Book Group.
Our groups are fun and easy. It's even okay if you don't finish the book. Pick a genre: fiction, non-fiction or travel; bring a light pupu or beverage, and enjoy!
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"Second Tuesday"- Our fiction group: August, 9 @6:30pm
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Avenue of Mysteries |
John Irving's Avenue of Mysteries is next for our fiction group.
Juan Diego-- a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico -- has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming -- specifically, her own future and her brother's. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you... As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, ... where what happened to him in the past -- in Mexico -- collides with his future.
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Our Travel and Adventure group: July 19 @6:30pm
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| The Oregon Trail |
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
, by Rinker Buck is our next book. This bestseller has been hailed as a quintessential American story. This is an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way in a covered wagon with a team of mules that has captivated readers, critics, and booksellers from coast to coast. Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a moving personal saga, Buck's chronicle is a laugh-out-loud masterpiece that so ensnares the emotions it becomes a tear-jerker at its close, and will leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land.
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"Just the Facts": our non-fiction group: August 24 @6:00pm
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Empire of Cotton |
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
, by Sven Beckert is our next book. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.
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 Because today is Harry Potter Day, here are some photos from the stage production of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child from BuzzFeed.
From The Independent, here are "Working titles of famous novels".
Mental Floss brings us a quiz, "Name the Missing Word in Each Book Title". I got all but one (this is Joy); guess I can keep my job... at least for now. The Reading Room quiz "What's Your Literary Death?" says I'm going to starve to death in a remote cabin. Oh my!
Aloha and a hui hou,
Brenda and Joy, owners
Noble, cat
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