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Amazon vs. The Rest of Us Part 2

JUST IN TIME  THANK YOU GROUPON (From ShelfAwareness 12/20/2011) Groupon’s Anti-Amazon Price Check Promotion Like eBay’s deal offering consumers a discount for purchases in some bricks-and-mortar

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The Herring in the Library
Mystery
Sunny Solomon

The Herring in the Library

May the suggestion to read L. C. Tyler’s The Herring in The Library be the jolliest gift you receive this holiday. Tired of trimming the

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GREAT JOY
Children’s picture books
Sunny Solomon

Great Joy

Great Joy, a Christmas picture book by Kate DiCamillo, really is a great joy, and between DiCamillo’s words and Bagram Ibatoulline’s illustrations, it deserves to

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Let’s Hear It for the Hardcovers

What a delight to read the following article from the NYT: http://nyti.ms/vqUDax There’s no denying the convenience of downloadable books. And the brouhaha over hardcovers

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ZONE ONE
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

Zone One

Colson Whitehead, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and a keen observer of the American way of life, has written a story

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New Book Reviewer

I am happy to welcome Aubrey Siino to Bookin’ with Sunny as our newest reviewer of Children’s books. Aubrey Siino graduated from the University of

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Point of Honour

For those readers who love historical fiction and especially stories from Regency England, look no further. Madeleine E. Robins has written in Point of Honour

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Occupy Amazon?

The Northern California Independent Booksellers trade show in Oakland last week added another chapter to the organization’s activist reputation. The following is taken from today’s Shelf Awareness,

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The Long Song
Authors of color
Sunny Solomon

The Long Song

The Long Song, A Novel of Haitian Slavery The Long Song, author Andrea Levy‘s fifth book is not to be missed. Levy, the daughter of

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NCIBA – OAKLAND CA

One more event before this long day is over. I’ve just left a panel discussion on how to make Facebook work for your bookstore or

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