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1998 digital photo of #BonnettsBooks storefront, taken with my old Casio QV-11.

A low-resolution photo of the storefront of Bonnett's Books, circa 1998.

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Explore mysteries of creative animation, puzzles of life, secrets of love, and adventures in fictional criminology with today's features from #BonnettsBooks!

2/20/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Biographies, relationships, detective fiction, and so much more. Scroll to see what you might find when you stop to look around the store.

#HayaoMiyazaki #Miyazaki #LaurieRKing #TheBeeKeepersApprentice #PatrickDeWitt #TheSistersBrothers #PanacheDesai #SolalaTowler #SusanCain

6 book covers, in 2 rows of 3...

Top left: "Starting Point, 1979~1996" by Hayao Myazaki, translated by Beth Cary and Frederick L. Schodt. The Los Angeles Times says, "Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese–or Western–animation."

Top center: "Discovering Your Soul Signature" by Penache Desai.

Top right: "Quiet – The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking," by Susan Cain. "The #1 bestseller, now in its eighth year on the New York Times Bestseller list." Gretchen Rubin, author of "The Happiness Project," says, "Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read."

Bottom left: "The Sisters Brothers," a novel by Patrick Dewitt. A badge, upper right, declares, "Winner, Governor General's Literary Award and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize." Anansi Book Club, trade paperback. 2 silhouettes in longcoats & hats, each with a red eye open & pistols pointed at the viewer. Their heads form eyes of a skull; their eyes, it's pupils. The skull is a circle with a face as on currency. The eyes of the face match up with the eyes of the skull.

Bottom center: "The Tao of Intimacy and Ecstacy–realizing the promise of spiritual union," by Solala Towler.

Bottom right: Picador Books' Twentieth Anniversary Edition of "The Beekeeper's Apprentice or, On the Segregation of the Queen" by New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King. The first Mary Russell novel, with a new introduction by the author.

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Today's featured additions are: Carpe Diem Journal & The Art of S. Clay Wilson.

2/26/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Do what you will with a journal–that's what they're for; but, keep the kiddos and sensitive readers away from this collection of underground-famous comix artworks.

Both now await your perusal on the shelves of #BonnettsBooks!

A photo of a small hardcover book overlayed on a square-cropped and darkened image of "The Art of S. Clay Wilson."

Carpe Diem Journal – for all Your Mini Goals and Your Major Goals, too!
... Then go out for ice cream.
... There's nothing else to do.
... Quick! Do it now, before you forget.
... Well, it didn't get done yesterday, did it?

The cover is a pale light-green with darker green border, flourishes, and blocks of captioning on either side of the title. All lettering and flair is meant to look as if written/drawn by hand. The title is stamped gold leaf. The subtitling is white, curving above and below the title.

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A photo of an oversized hardcover book, in its dustjacket, overlayed on a square-cropped and darkened image of a mint-green book.

The Art of S. Clay Wilson.

The top third of this cover is a solid glossy black with a warm yellow title printed in the outline of a hand-drawn banner with Chris at either end. The cover illustration is the artist's rendering of an extremely cramped and busy scene of over-the-top cartoon gore and violence as groups of pirates battle one another on the deck of a tall-ship.

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The Goonies, The Rolling Stones, Kung-Fu Master, Black Viking, Demons by Daylight, and teenagers Wild in the Streets!

3/1/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

There's no escapism like #VintagePaperbacks. Other times, places, real & imagined. Visit them now with #BonnettsBooks!

An image of six vintage paperback books, as follows:

1. Ramsey Campbell's "Demons By Daylight – nerve-tingling tales of the unimaginable from the modern master of horror." Minor edgewear. Cover price carefully scratched off revealing white paper through the black cover.
2. Bill Downey's "Black Viking – Men thought him devil, women called him god. He towered over all in a mighty age of barbarism." This cover shows obvious edgewear and a large tear and tape-repair along the top edge.
3. Steven Spielberg presents "The Goonies." A Richard Donner film. Novelization by James Kahn. Based on a screenplay by Chris Columbus. Story by Steven Spielberg. They call themselves "The Goonies." The secret caves. The old lighthouse. The lost map. The treacherous traps. The hidden treasure. And Sloth... Join the adventure. Obvious creating with color loss at the top open corner.
4. "Our Own Story by The Rolling Stones as we told it to Pete Goodman." It's kinky, man! Kinky! Direct from England! The only official account! With 32 pages of original photographs!
5. "Wild in the Streets: Teen takeover–the day it all happened, baby!" by Robert Thom. Now a stunning movie starring Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, and Diane Varsi.
6. Kung-Fu Master Richard Dragon — "Dragon's Fists" by Jim Dennis. There is a narrow red stain at the top-most edge of this white cover and a small patch of color pull in the title near old sticker-shadow.

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A fresh addition to our offerings, #PopularMechanics from July 1936. Cover painting by #HalFoster, #Tarzan illustrator & creator of #PrinceValiant.
Now available at #BonnettsBooks!

A photo of the July 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. There is some reflective glare from the protective bag in which the magazine currently resides.

The full-cover illustration of French navy sailors standing in review on the deck of their battleship is a painting by "Prince Valiant" comic strip creator Hal Foster.

The Captain stands near enormous cannon turrets whose barrels protrude above the scene, the French flag waving above it all.

Hal Foster was a Canadian-American illustrator who began adapting Tarzan to comic strip form in 1928. He's credited as a major influence by famed illustrators like Frank Frazetta, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Bill Ward, and many more.

Foster's "Prince Valiant" didn't begin until 1937, the year after this issue of Popular Mechanics was published.

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When current events are mostly remakes, we can look back on history to learn the plot.

2/18/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

These and more available now at #BonnettsBooks.

A composite image of six books arranged in two rows of three, as follows:

Top left — A Mentor Book on Social Philosophy, numbered MP429, original cover price 60¢.
"Human Society in Ethics and Politics" by Bertrand Russell. "England's most controversial philosopher challenges the accepted standards of morality, religion, politics, and urges a new evaluation of their function in today's chaotic world.

Top center — Avon Discus Books number NS23, original cover price 95¢. "The War Game" by Peter Watkins. The controversial Academy Award-Winning film. "It may be the most important film ever made." says Kenneth Tynan.

Top right — Ballantine Nonfiction, number 36135, original cover price (Canada $6.50) U.S. $4.95. "Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays" by Paul Fussell, author of "Class." The Washington Post says, "Wonderfully evocative…Instructive and entertaining…His hit list this time out includes censors, sexual puritans, rigid optimists, the National Rifle Association, exploiters of tourists, and the president."

Bottom left — "Public Enemy – Confessions of an American dissident" by Bill Ayers, author of "Fugitive Days."

Bottom center — "Unpopular Essays" by Bertrand Russell.

Bottom right — "All the Right Enemies – The Life and Nurse of Carlos Tresca" by Dorothy Gallagher. Alfred Kazin of the New York Times Book Review says "A first-class book…a perfect detective story…brings back a whole period in American life."

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A composite image of six books arranged in two rows of three, as follows:

Top left — Avon Books number W181, original cover price $1.25. "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary" by James Simon Kunen. Blurb from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. says, "Wise, resonantly humane, very funny…. In suddenly very hopeful about my country again, knowing that a brilliant and honest young citizen like Mr. Kunen is coming along."

Top center — "The Port Huron Statement – The visionary call of the 1960s revolution" by Tom Hayden, with a new introduction by the author.

Top right — "Cultivation Revolution – The United States and Agrarian Reform in Latin America" by James F. Petras and Robert LaPorte, Jr. Partial ISBN, 71964-6. Publisher's book number, V-964. Original cover price $2.95.

Bottom left — Panther book number 026282. "The Student Revolt – The Activists Speak" by J. Sauvageot, A. Geismar, D. Cohn-Bendit, and J.-P. Duteuil.

Bottom Center — A Tower Public Affairs Book, number T-095-10, "Moratorium – An American Protest" by Paul Hoffman.

Bottom right — "The Sixties– Years of Hope, Days of Rage" by Todd Gitlin.

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A composite image of six books arranged in two rows of three, as follows:

Top left — "How to Lie with Maps, Second Edition" by Mark Monmonier, with a new foreword by H. J. de Blij. This illustrated cover depicts a yellow map with residential neighborhoods highlighted in green, in the shape of Pinocchio, his nose outstretched.

Top center — "Brainwashing and the Cults – an exposé on capturing the human mind" by Paul A. Verdier, Ph.D., for IBC, the Institute of Behavioral Conditioning. Original cover price of $3. The black cover features a bold red title in the middle and white lettering otherwise. A red banner angles across the bottom, listing Patty Hearst, the Manson Family, The Kennedy Assassinations, quasi-religious cults, and hypnosis and the way it is used in brainwashing.

Top right — "News from Nowhere – Television and the News" by Edward J. Epstein.
Publisher numbering V-998.
Partial ISBN number 394-71998-0.

Bottom left — "When Religion Becomes Evil – Five Warning Signs" by Charles Kimball.

Bottom center – "Holy Horrors – an illustrated history of religious murder and madness" by James A. Haught.

Bottom right – "No Gods, No Masters – an anthology of Anarchism, Book Two" by Daniel Guérin from AK Press.

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Downtown Dayton, Ohio map in Hammond's "Great Cities of the World," from 1958.

5/15/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

I'm not putting this one out immediately but, many other fine volumes are ready and waiting at #BonnettsBooks.

A photo of a map downtown Dayton, Ohio from page 47 of the 1958 Hammond Atlas "Great Cities of the World."

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🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

6/2/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

If you didn't know, #BonnettsBooks includes all the colors of the rainbow; all the way back to when most magazines were only printed in black & white. Feel free to drop in for a look around!

A colorful photo inside Bonnett's Bookstore showing an aisle with thousands of books and a portion of the vast toy collection displayed on shelves and hanging from the ceiling.

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You've heard Gen-X drank water from garden hoses in Summer. Did you know Boomers did it naked‽ 😳

5/27/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

NATO meeting has left Dayton & Riverscape fountain is on. It's still chilly but, parks are open for picnics & disc golf, patios are already partying, drive-ins & pools are ramping up, & convention/vacation season is right around the corner. What'll you find exploring #BonnettsBooks?

A cropped photo of an old black and white page from a male nudists magazine. A naked man, visible from the waist up, drinks water from a garden hose, outdoors, standing near fern-like shrubbery. The page is semigloss and there is reflective glare along the left, particularly in the lower half of the page. The glare does not obscure the subject matter.

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