Last call for special orders to arrive for Christmas: let us know by Tuesday at Noon.
Sangria Saturday: December 9 and December 16 
 
Holiday Cheer
Don't miss your chance to find something for everyone on your holiday list!
  
All while enjoying a glass of Sangria!
You can have your picture with the Grinch from 1 to 3pm!
Free Gift Wrap Station! 
Suzanne Breath and Friend
Author and artist Suzanne Breath will join us with samples from her cookbook, Suzanne's Edible Art Cookbook. In 1980 Suzanne opened her own bakeshop in Kailua Kona. The whole family chipped in and Suzanne's Bakeshop became a Kona favorite for over 20 years. As a lifetime member of the American Culinary Federation, she is equally at home with a canvas, easel and oil paints. Suzanne hopes to share her unique love of art and edible goodies through the recipes contained within. Each recipe is paired with her one-of-a-kind paintings and will allow you to get just a little taste of her combined artistic and culinary inspirations, friends, family, and extensive travels. 
From Noon to 2pm. 
Read or re-read a classic:  
Due to popular demand for more time to read this great book, we have moved this discussion to Wednesday, January 17th.  
: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Several of us in our Fiction book club decided we wanted to read and discuss Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I haven't read it since high school (this is Joy) and I'm looking forward to seeing what my adult self thinks of this book that I loved in high school. If you want an excuse to read or re-read a classic, you've got some time. We will meet to discuss on Wednesday, January 17 at 5 pm over happy hour at Kenichi's.    
Book Clubs
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
The Undoing Project
Four Corners

Our Fiction Group: 
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by  
Joanna Cannon 

England, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is missing and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbors blame her sudden disappearance on the heat wave, but ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly aren't convinced, and decide to take matters into their own hands. "The Trouble with Goats and Sheep radiates an unmistakable warmth and intelligence and is 'rife with tiny extraordinaries'" (The New York Times Book Review).
Tues, Dec. 12 @ 6:30pm



O ur Non-fiction Group:
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds 
by Michael Lewis

We're skipping December, which means you have lots of time to read The Undoing Project.
  Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies which showed the ways the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, and led to a new approach to government regulation.
  Tues, Jan. 23 @ 6pm  

Our Travel Group:  
Four Corners: A Journey Through the Heart of Papua New Guinea   
by Kira Salak
 
At the age of twenty-four, Kira Salak took a three-month solo trip across Papua New Guinea, making her the first woman to have traversed the whole country. She navigated the island by dugout canoe and on foot, stayed in a village where people still practice cannibalism, and met the leader of the separatist guerrilla movement. Reading more like a thriller than a travel memoir, Four Corners is compulsive armchair travel at its very best. 
Tues, Dec. 19 @ 6:30pm
From Shelf Awareness
NPR has released their "NPR's Book Concierge"; you can also ask your local booksellers at Kona Stories for recommendations! 
 
 
 
From Bookstr, " 10 Literary Pick Up Lines to Try Tonight". They would get big points if they knew the book the line was from. 
 
 
Mahalo and a hui hou,
Joy and Brenda (Owners)
Noble and Chloe (Cats) 

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