Mark your calendar for Small Business Saturday, November 25th. It will be a party all day at Kona Stories!
Book Clubs
Salt to the Sea
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Grandma Gatewood_s Walk

Our Fiction Group: 
Salt to the Sea by  
Ruta Sepetys 

Winter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, and war. As thousands desperately flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. But not all promises can be kept.
Tues, Nov.14 @ 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:  
Grandma Gatewood's Walk  
by Ben Montgomery
 
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.
Tues, Nov. 21 @ 6:30pm
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 2006 
Happening at Kona Stories Sat., Nov., 25:
  • It's also "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.
  • Plus: Door prizes all day!
Happening in the Keauhou Courtyard:
The Hawaii Island County Band will play from 1 to 2pm followed by the band Green Machine at 3pm!  
 
"I Pretended to Be Emily Dickinson on an Online Dating Site", from ElectricLit. The author says she had great success with this posting. 

 
A quiz from BuzzFeed: "Do You Know Which Book Came Out First?" They didn't give me a score, but I'll tell you that I didn't do well (this is Joy).  
 
Last, to mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses that started the Reformation, author Peter Stanford picked his "top 10 Protestants in fiction" for the Guardian.  
 
Mahalo and a hui hou,
Joy and Brenda (Owners)
Noble and Chloe (Cats) 

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