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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 7 PM on Zoom (until Clay­ton CA Com­mu­nity Library re-opens for meetings).

My Beloved World
Autobiography/Memoir
Ann Ronald

 Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor brings the depth of lived experience and rigorous knowledge of the law to My Beloved World. Supreme Court Associate

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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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Horse
Animal stories
Sunny Solomon

Horse – Once again, Geraldine Brooks uncovers little known parts of our American history. She moves us from 2019 back to the pre-Civil War south,

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The Girl You Left Behind
Art
Ann Ronald

The Girl You Left Behind – Jojo Moyes’ novel of the portrait of a French artist’s wife and the war that intervened, separating by death

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Elegible
Reviews
Ann Ronald

Sittenfeld’s Eligible brings Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to the twenty-first century. Quite simply, Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Eligible, is a hoot! I chuckled aloud as I read—each page, each character,

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The Last Days of Night
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Last Days of Night – Moore’s novel illuminates the lawsuit between Edison and Westinghouse for the legal patent rights to the light bulb. Reading Graham

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The Heron's Cry
Reviews
Ann Ronald

The Heron’s Cry, sequel to The Long Call. Cleeves and her detective Venn have done it again in the second Two Rivers mystery. As promised,

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A Tale of Two Murders
Fiction
Ann Ronald

A Tale of Two Murders – A young Charles Dickens and a young Kate Hogarth in Redmond’s reimagining their early years as whodunnit sleuths. Heather

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Tracing Time
Art
Ann Ronald

Tracing Time, Childs brings the rock art of the Colorado Plateau Canyon country into a rich and moving focus. I have read most, if not

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Zeitoun
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Zeitoun – Dave Eggers’ talent for bringing impersonal news stories like Hurricane Katrina up close and very personal is here in Zeitoun. Like so many

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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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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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Golden Slippers

Langston Hughes – A poet for BLM?

GOLDEN SLIPPERS: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers Poem: Youth Poet: Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967) Editor: Arna Bontemps Publisher: Harper & Row

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