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MEDIA RELEASE The Friends of the Library, Kona hosts its annual meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24 on the lanai of the Kailua Kona Library followed by a short reception with refreshments. Current FOLK members are encouraged to attend as well as those interested in becoming members. Following the reception, the Kona Library Book […]

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What: Booklovers Meeting on the lanai at Kailua-Kona Library When: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16 The Kona Library Book Club meets to discuss “March” by Geraldine Brooks. This is a tale centering on the absentee father from Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) that offers glimpses of the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad while driving […]

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When: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19 The Kona Library Book Club meets on the lanai of the Kailua-Kona Library to discuss Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Although Ayaan Hirsi Ali remains Public Enemy No. 1 for radical Muslims, she refuses to be silenced. In this captivating memoir — an act of courage itself — she […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Kona Library Book Club meets 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept 15 on the lanai of the Kailua-Kona Library to discuss “The Sixteen Pleasures,” a work of fiction by Robert Hellenga.   This is the story of 29-year-old Margot Harrington who travels to Florence, in the wake of the disastrous 1966 flood, to volunteer […]

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