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Autobiography/Memoir
Sunny Solomon

New Life, No Instructions

One of the great pleasures of reading is to discover an author who knocks your socks off, not just with the first book read, but

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Books on books
Neal Ferguson

When Books Went to War

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II Did you ever wonder how WW II soldiers filled up the

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Autobiography/Memoir
Ann Ronald

What You Have Heard is True

WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A MEMOIR OF WITNESS AND RESISTANCE I can’t recall reading another book about a topic absolutely foreign to me

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Sisters in Arms
Authors of color
Ann Ronald

Sisters in Arms

  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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Nonfiction
Dan Erwine

Quiet

Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Let me tell you a story. Growing up in the 1950s, I

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Fiction
Neal Ferguson

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer’s the Naked and the Dead was on my bedside stack for years.  No longer able to avoid it, I read the 1998 50th

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The Wednesday Sisters
Historical Fiction
Sunny Solomon

The Wednesday Sisters

THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS – Meg Waite Clayton’s novel of a group of young women on the cusp of adulthood. The novel is filled with wisdom

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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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Before All Others

I love independent bookstores. I love small presses. But before all others, I’m nuts about readers looking for something to read that they hadn’t thought

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Chinese Fables
Children’s picture books
Sunny Solomon

Chinese Fables

Chinese Fables, The Dragon Slayer and Other Timeless Tales of Wisdom Chinese Fables is a picture book treasure for both the mind and the eye.

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Hollow Kingdom
Animal stories
Sunny Solomon

Hollow Kingdom

Hollow Kingdom Are you a nature lover? A hiker? A botanist? A stargazer? A bird watcher? If so, please consider Kira Jane Buxton’s debut book,

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Mystery
Ann Ronald

Blood of the Prodigal

If you have seen many of my “Bookin’ with Sunny” reviews, you’ll know I prefer books that not only are delightful to read but that

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