Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25th will be a party all day at Kona Stories and the Keauhou Shopping Center!
Small Business Saturday: It's a party all day!   
The Saturday after Thanksgiving, November, 25th!
 
Shop Small is an annual shopping tradition dedicated to supporting small businesses and celebrating communities. It's a cause that helps to support local economies and promote vibrant, diverse communities. It's also a nationwide movement fueled by shoppers, business owners, and organizers who come together and celebrate the community because they know it matters.   
 
What else are we celebrating?   
Kona Stories is eleven years old! 
   
 
Opening Day
Opening Day  2006 
2017
Happening at Kona Stories Saturday, November 25:
  • Grinch and Friend
    "Sangria Saturday": Enjoy a free glass of Brenda's delicious home-made Sangria.
  • Take your photo with the Grinch from 1 to 3pm!
  • Enjoy a sample from the cook book "Sonia Tastes Hawaii" and talk story with its author Sonia Martinez.
  • Free holiday gift wrap station.
  • Plus: Door prizes all day! Tote bag giveaways.
Sonia Martinez
 
Happening in the Keauhou Courtyard:
The Hawaii Island County Band will play from 1 to 2pm followed by the band Green Machine at 3pm! Courtyard booths will abound and a late afternoon Dance Performance is on the stage.
Book Clubs
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
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 Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu 
by Joshua Hammer

"Part history, part scholarly adventure story, and part journalist survey....Joshua Hammer writes with verve and expertise" (The New York Times Book Review) about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali.
  Tues, Nov. 28 @ 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
The annual book list season is beginning. Here is the New York Times "100 Notable books of 2017". 
 
 
Brenda and I are both fans of the TV show "Jane the Virgin", now "'Jane the Virgin' Fans, You Can Actually Read Her New Novel' from Bookstr. We will have in stock next week. 
 
Thanks to West Hawaii Today for the article last week on "Small Business Saturday".  
 
 
 
Mahalo and a hui hou,
Joy and Brenda (Owners)
Noble and Chloe (Cats) 

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