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Memoir
Sunny Solomon

The Noble Hustle

THE NOBLE HUSTLE, POKER, BEEF JERKY AND DEATH Pulitzer Prize Winner (“The Underground Railroad”) Colson Whitehead has done it again, written a book unlike any

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Search for the New Land
African American Writers
Sunny Solomon

Search for the New Land

Search for the New Land shook me awake and into the world of Julius Lester’s Black experience. Sometimes my reading habits set me off like

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Grant
Biography
Neal Ferguson

Grant

GRANT After reading Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, I had some trepidation about opening his newest book, Grant. I didn’t think he could surpass Hamilton (see

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

On Love, A Novel

ON LOVE, A NOVEL How many novels are written by philosophers? More than you might think: Voltaire, Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Huxley, it’s a lengthy list.

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

MARCH

The Girl With the Seven Names — Hyeorsio Less and David John, Monday, March 11, 2019, 7:00 pm, Clayton Community Library

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

MAY

A Single Pebble, John Hersey,  May 13, 2019, 7:00 pm, Clayton Community Library

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

JULY

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving, Monday, July 8, 2019, 7:00 pm, Clayton Community Library

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Facing the Wave
Reviews
Neal Ferguson

Facing the Wave

Facing the Wave, a Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami. Gretel Ehrlich faces the wave directly in her telling of A Journey in the

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Where Light Comes and Goes
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Where Light Comes and Goes

Where Light Comes and Goes. Medicine and more with Dr. Abby Wilmore, this time at Yosemite National Park. When I reviewed the first book in

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A Confederacy of Dunces
Book Club
TJ Rutkowski

NOVEMBER

A Confederacy of Dunces: John Kennedy Toole; Tuesday, November 28, 2023; 6:00 PM; Clayton Community Library. Please contact us for more information.

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The Little Sister
Reviews
Sunny Solomon

The Little Sister

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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