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A history aficionado navigates tales of royalty and explorers

Tiburon bookworm Lynn Payne has her browsing routine down to a science at Corner Books.

FRANCISCO MARTINEZ / THE ARKTiburon resident Lynn Payne browses at Corner Books, the Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s used bookstore, on Aug. 27. The avid nonfiction reader eventually settled on a copy of ‘When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age’ by Justin Kaplan.
Francisco Martinez
By FRANCISCO MARTINEZ · 1 min read

Lynn Payne has her book-browsing routine down to a science.

The 88-year-old Tiburon resident makes her way through the racks at Corner Books, the Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s used bookstore, on Aug. 27, looking for her next read — preferably a history book.

“I like to learn a little something when I’m reading, and that’s why I like nonfiction books,” Payne says.

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