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.
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 long-rumored 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. ■