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We hope this site will give you the same enthusiasm and knowledge you expect from a community bookstore. We review a broad range of genres, choosing those titles we believe worth reading. 

The book club meets here at Bookin’ with Sunny every day, and the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 PM at the Clayton Community Library.

Autobiography/Memoir
Sunny Solomon

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee’s captivating memoir and history of the world of bookselling. Of all the books I have especially recommended to avid readers

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Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Brandy Burgess

Jacqueline Hollands’s debut novel, The God of  Endings, reveals the loneliness of the life of an unwilling vampire. Jacqueline Holland’s debut novel, The God of Endings, follows

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Billy Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space
Children's graphic novels
Sunny Solomon

BILLY BLASTER AND THE ROBOT ARMY FROM OUTER SPACE – not necessarily a graphic novel only for the younger reader. No matter how old you

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All The Stars in The Heavens
Fiction
Ann Ronald

All The Stars in The Heavens – the bio-novel of Loretta Young’s life as only Adriana Trigiani could imagine. Hollywood at its best? Regular “Bookin’

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The Honey Jar
Children’s early and middle readers
Sunny Solomon

The Honey Jar, An Armenian’s Escape to Freedom, is Joan Schoettler’s captivating tale of a young boy’s 1920, escape from his war-torn home in Armenia.

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Facing The Mountain
History
Ann Ronald

    Daniel James Brown’s Facing the Mountain, A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, is the rich telling of the plight faced

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Dreamers of the Day
Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Dreamers of the Day is Mary Doria Russell’s novel that is as fresh if not fresher today than when first published in 2008. Mary Doria Russell’s

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The Midnight Library
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

Matt Haig’s novel, The Midnight Library, describes the twenty-seven hours it takes Nora Seed to choose life or death. The Midnight Library, Chapter One begins, “Nineteen

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Not Weakness, Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
Health
Sunny Solomon

Not Weakness, Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain – Francesca Grossman’s book is more than memoir or self-help. It is an honest exploration of the

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The Little Sister
Reviews
Sunny Solomon

The Little Sister – A first Philip Marlowe novel brings this reviewer into an enthusiastic appreciation of Raymond Chandler who makes (for me) the mystery

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Sisters in Arms
Authors of color
Ann Ronald

  Sisters in Arms – Kaia Alderson introduces a subset of a distinct group of WWII women deployed overseas during the war. Welcome to the

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The Last Mona Lisa
Art
Ann Ronald

The Last Mona Lisa, Jonathan Santlofer’s retelling of the August 21, 1911, theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louve, is ingenious. Art theft, forgery,

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My Beloved World
Autobiography/Memoir
Ann Ronald

Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Supreme Court Justice, brings the breadth and depth of her lived experiences to her memoir, My Beloved World. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia

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Anthill
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Anthill – The late Edward O. Wilson’s novel look at myrmecology from the Florida panhandle to Mobile, Alabama, fiction as well as fascinating taxonomy.   

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Africa, Amazing Africa, Country by Country
Children’s picture books
Sunny Solomon

Africa, Amazing Africa, Country by Country – Atinuke’s amazing picture book introduces readers young and old to all the countries of Africa, the Continent. Reviewing

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I alone can fix it
Reviews
Ann Ronald

I Alone Can Fix It – Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year. Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s investigative journalism might have been titled, Duck Dynasty &

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Fun Fact

Sunny is a poet and playwright. Her play, The Unleashed Hearts, was read on stage at the Brüka in Reno in 2018.

Talk about a talented woman

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Remembering The Peasant Prince

One thing leading to another is the case when reading about an unearthed time capsule brings me back to Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Last Thursday, August 31st,

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Stones

Stones – Poem by Poem

STONES, BY KEVIN YOUNG – POEM BY POEM Hum I am learning how to sleep again, to love the descent, or is it, lying here,

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Drysalter

Drysalter – Poem by Poem

DRYSALTER – POEM BY POEM The Poem  — Hymn to the Faces.   Hymn to the Faces A wall of photographs from nowhere, overnight gallery

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