Hello nerds,

Coming in hot with a busy July!

In Person Events

Thursday, July 2nd at 6:00 PM

Join us at Sunny's for Yuma County Abolition's monthly book club. This month they are meeting to discuss the last half of Let This Radicalize You. RSVP HERE.

• About the book: What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

• About Yuma County Abolition: Yuma County Abolition is a grassroots, volunteer-run network dedicated to providing immediate support to our community while building long-term, self-sustaining resilience. We ground our work in solidarity, intersectionality, abolition, accountability, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action.

Friday, July 3rd at 5:00 PM

First Friday is back! Come beat the heat and spend some time downtown after the sun goes down. RSVP HERE.

About the event: In partnership with the 261 Shops, we will be participating in First Friday. Creation Coffee will be on-site with speciality brews for paying customers to ANY participating business. No minimum purchase required. Sunny's entire store will be 10% off from 5-7 and 20% off for card holding members.

Thursday, July 16th at 6:00 PM

Join us at Sunny's for our monthly in-person event, Sunny's Salon. This months edition we will be playing literary trivia! RSVP HERE.

• About the event: Think you know books? Put it to the test. Join us for literary trivia night at Sunny's. 6 rounds covering everything from classic lit to contemporary reads. Form a team of 2–5 on the spot, no registration required. One winning team takes the prize. Ties broken by a sudden-death tiebreaker round. Free to play. One night only. May the best readers win.

Friday, July 30th at 6:00 PM

Join us for an author event with L.L. Madrid, a Tucson novelist, to discuss her book My Lips, Her Voice. My Lips, Her Voice is a possession murder mystery with a haunted sapphic love triangle at its heart. L.L. will be reading from her novel and books will be for sale to be signed by the author. This is a FREE event to attend, but we ask that you RSVP so we have a good headcount and can prepare the space. RSVP HERE.

• About the book:
  
  Copper City’s bloody history is steeped in ghost stories and whispers of serial killers, but three girls have caught the attention of something far more sinister.

  
  A grandmother tormented by visions tried to warn the town, but no one listened. Now, a haunted inheritance has passed to her granddaughters, Audrey and Mara. When Mara’s body is discovered in the old mine, Audrey fears her grandmother’s premonition is manifesting.
  
  The nightmare begins as Mara’s spirit returns—lurking under Audrey’s skin, hellbent on vengeance and desperate to rekindle things with her former girlfriend, Zadie. Willing to hijack Audrey’s body to get what she wants, Mara drags them both into a deadly pursuit.
  
  When another girl in town goes missing, Audrey, Mara, and Zadie know the killer has struck again. In a fight to solve Mara’s death and uncover the mystery of disappearances in Copper City, the girls soon find themselves at war with each other. How do you survive long enough to hunt a murderer on the loose if the person inside you might kill you first?

Online Events:

Sunday, July 26th at 11:00 AM

Join us online for our monthly book club Zoom meeting. The July book is Sourland by Ariel Delgado Dixon. RSVP HERE. Ariel will be joining us for the last 30 minutes of this book club discussion!

• About the book: A gripping, propulsive novel about succession, sex, and revenge on a California marijuana farm. A brilliantly constructed novel of desire and betrayal, Sourland sparkles with the beauty and grime of the California woods. Dixon’s novel warns that our true nature catches up to us all—no matter how far we run.

• About Sunny's Book Club: Sunny’s Book Club is a monthly book club highlighting both new releases and backlist titles we love. A virtual discussion is hosted over Zoom on the last Sunday of the month. You can check out our selections each month and sign up here. You do not have to buy the book from Sunny's to participate, but we love when you do!

Thank you all for your support as always and hope to see you in person this month.

CJ

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