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WEST HAWAII TODAY | BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017 | 9 treats and SWEETS Valentine Crafting bring the keiki for crafting fun This Sunday! dipping at our chocolate fountain enter to win dinner for two at a local restaurant! 12 FEB PLUS, WE'RE GIVING AWAY A SPECIAL 'MAHALO GIFT' TO THOSE WHO STOP BY! DINNER IS A $100 VALUE. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MUST BE 18 OR OLDER TO ENTER. MINIMUM ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. SEE STORES FOR DETAILS. FOLK book sale Saturday The Friends of the Libraries, Kona will hold a book sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday on the lanai of the Kailua-Kona Public Library. Proceeds from sales help support the needs of Kona libraries. Volunteers are welcome and book donations are accepted. A special discount is offered to teachers with ID. Info/volunteer: 322-0077. FOLK Book Club meets Tuesday Friends of the Libraries, Kona Book Club meets at 11 a.m. Tuesday on the Kailua-Kona Public Library lanai. This month’s selection is “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “The Sympathizer” is a gripping espionage novel and a powerful story of love and friendship narrated by a communist double agent, a half-French, half-Vietnamese, army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his Communist superiors in Vietnam. The club next meets in February to discuss “Euphoria” by Lily King. Kona Stories fiction book club meets Tuesday Kona Stories hosts a fiction book club discussing “The Madwoman Upstairs” by Catherine Lowell on Tuesday. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. at the bookstore. Book groups are free if books are purchased at Kona Stories, or a $5 donation is requested. In Lowell’s debut novel, an enjoyable academic romp that successfully combines romance and intrigue (Publishers Weekly) the only remaining descendant of the Bronte family embarks on a modern-day literary treasure hunt to find the family’s long-rumored secret estate, using only the clues her father left behind and the Brontes own novels. Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she goes. Since her eccentric father’s untimely death, she is the presumed heir to a longrumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters and early novel drafts passed down from the Bronte family a hidden fortune never revealed to anyone outside of the family, but endlessly speculated about by Bronte scholars and fanatics. Whipple, however, has never seen this alleged estate and for all she knows, it’s just as fictional as Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. But everything changes when Whipple enrolls at Oxford University and long-lost objects from the past begin rematerializing in her life, beginning with an old novel annotated in her father’s handwriting. With the help of a handsome but inscrutable professor, she plunges into a vast literary mystery and an untold family legacy, one that can only be solved by decoding the clues hidden within the Brontes own works. Info: 324-0350, www.konastories. com. ■


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