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Story time: Back to School!
Wednesday, Aug. 30 @ 10:30am
Get ready for stories, crafts, and activities all about going to school! The ladies of the
AAUW will once again deliver a great story time experience to your pre-school keiki. There is a $5 fee to cover the crafts and snack AND you will receive a $5 coupon to use at Kona Stories.
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Thanks, Stefanie of Blue Journey Farm for sponsoring this event. We'll see you Saturday at the
Keauhou Farmer's Market.
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John Green's latest book, Turtles All the Way Down will be released on October 10th!
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Turtles All the Way Down
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Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.
Make sure you're the first to get a copy by pre-ordering now: ks@konastories.com
"Extra Credit" book discussion?
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Anna Karenina
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We did NOT pick Anna Karenina as our Fiction book for next month, but a couple of us were discussing that we'd like to either read or re-read this classic. I've not read it since high school (this is Joy).
So, we're going to read it and get together in early November (time and date TBD; I'll let you know in a future e-mail). Grab a copy and start reading Anna Karenina. You know you want to!
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Our Book clubs are fun and friendly!
Read the book, bring either a pupu or beverage, and enjoy a lively discussion.
Our Fiction group: Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
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Bark
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What they're saying about this book of short stories:
"Uncanny. . . . Moving. . . . A powerful collection".
The Washington Post.
"Moore's one of the country's most admired writers. . . . [Bark] shows off a true advance of Moore's powers and offers some first-rate reading pleasure".
NPR.
"100% brilliant, as usual. . . . Moore has come to enjoy the unusual distinction of being just about the darkest light writer around. Unhappiness, heartbreak, illness, grief, disappointment--who'd have thought they could be so much fun?" --Geoff Dyer, The Observer
"[Bark is] a book to which people will refer back to understand life as we lived it in the past ten years".
Salon.
We will discuss these short stories on Tuesday, September 12 @ 6:30pm.
Our Non-Fiction Group: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
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Prisoners of Geography
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All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. To understand Putin's actions, for example, it is essential to consider that, to be a world power, Russia must have a navy. And if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port - hence, the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin. To understand the Middle East, it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are - and this is why invented countries (e.g. Syria, Iraq, Libya) will not survive as nation states.
Geopolitics will be on the agenda Tuesday, September 26 @ 6pm.
Our Travel Group: Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette
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Elephant Complex
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No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions. In the course of his journey, he meets farmers, war heroes, cricketers, terrorists, a former president, survivors of great massacres--and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That's to say nothing of the island's beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth. We will resume our reading and discuss this exotic local on
Tuesday, October 17 @ 6pm.
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Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm;
Saturday: 10am-5pm;
Sunday: 11am-5pm
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