Authors Carol Thorsness, Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and John Dvorak will be featured during Kona Stories Book Shop’s Words and Wine event at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Keauhou Shopping Center. ADVERTISING Authors Carol Thorsness, Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and John Dvorak will
Authors Carol Thorsness, Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and John Dvorak will be featured during Kona Stories Book Shop’s Words and Wine event at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Keauhou Shopping Center.
Thorsness is a retired teacher who taught both special education and regular education social studies and English at the middle school level. She used her experience with those middle schoolers to develop the characters and their reactions to situations in writing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
In this book, Jamal lives with his grandmother in the inner city of Dallas. With the encouragement of his grandmother, Jamal applies to the Pathways Project to spend the summer before he enters eighth grade with a family in a rural area. Jamal is selected and is sent to stay on a cattle ranch in Clayton Springs where instead of a host family, his host is Jake Litchfield a bachelor in his 30s. Jamal takes to this rural setting learning ranch life and making many friends. He and Jake become close and Jamal hopes to return next summer even though that is not part of the Pathways program.
All of this is put in jeopardy when a friend from Dallas shows up at the ranch. Because of his actions, Jamal thinks he will be thrown out of the Pathways Project and that he has lost Jake’s trust and friendship.
Thorsness splits her time between Kailua-Kona and Livermore, California, where she lives with her husband of 48 years and near her two sons, their wives and her two granddaughters.
Dvorak, PhD., has studied volcanoes and earthquakes around the world for the United States Geological Survey. He has written cover stories for Scientific American, Astronomy and Physics Today. Dvorak lives in Hawaii, where he operates a telescope at Mauna Kea.
Ranging from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Mount Pelee in the Caribbean, from Bogoslof and Pavlov in Alaska, to Sakurajima in Japan, and, finally, to the massive volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii — “The Last Volcano” reveals the incredible journey of Thomas Jaggar, a man on a mission to understand the awesome power of volcanic eruptions.
DeEtte Shafto is a former professional interior designer, turned award-winning woodworker and book producer. She created Contemporary Publications as a publishing house for the arts and other creative ventures. “Aloha Expressionism” is her second book, in collaboration with Lynda McDaniel, showcasing the inspirational diversity of talent across the state.
The book celebrates the essence of creativity and community in Hawaii. As an armchair traveler, or on a trip to this paradise, each chapter takes you on a journey to a different island and the lifestyle that influences the 50 featured artists. The book starts with Kauai, the oldest of the islands, and works its way down the chain to Hawaii Island.
Following a more formal book presentation from each author there will be a Q&A session. The event concludes at 8 p.m.
Info: Brenda or Joy, 324-0350.
