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  • June 2020

  • Sat 27

    Redress: Book Talk with Author John Tateishi

    June 27, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Saturday, June 27 at 3pm RSVP with Eventbrite to access the Zoom link. Author John Tateishi discusses his book, Redress: The Inside Story of the...

  • Sat 27

    Saturday Night Special, A “Summer” Open Mic

    June 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos...

    Free
  • Sun 28

    Gina Rae La Cerva: Author discusses her book, Feasting Wild, with David George Haskell

    June 28, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Gina Rae La Cerva discusses her new book, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Greystone Books) with David George Haskell. This event will be...

  • Sun 28

    Book Club: Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune

    June 28, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! June's book club selection is Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim. The book contains unique recipes....

  • Tue 30

    City Lights Authors on the Road: Whistleblower at the CIA – Melvin A. Goodman

    June 30, 2020 @ 7:30 am - 9:30 am PDT

    Speaker: Melvin Goodman, PhD, Retired CIA and State Department Analyst, Author The whistleblower is essential to congressional oversight, investigative journalism, and the public's awareness of...

  • Tue 30

    VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Bonnie Tsui & Jennifer Steinhauer

    June 30, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during...

  • Tue 30

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way

    June 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, is delighted to welcome bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius of Birds) for...

  • Tue 30

    Oona Out of Order | GGP Online Book Club

    June 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Margarita Montimore's new novel, OONA...

  • July 2020

  • Mon 6

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender, The Butterfly Lampshade

    July 6, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years, The...

  • Mon 6

    Virtual Event: Lane Moore

    July 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Monday, July 6 at 6pm PDT when Lane Moore joins us to discuss her book How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even...

  • Mon 6

    Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer (Online)

    July 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    This event is online. We are thrilled to celebrate with Kepler's favorite Daniel Mason for his new book, A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth. Join...

  • Mon 6

    Virtual Quiet Lightning!

    July 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo Bicchieri » Grey Rosado » Rhea Dhanbhoora » Richelle Lee Slota | Jennifer Ng » Nora Boxer » Steven Hill » Steven Gray » Lilian Wang » D.S. Black » Caroline Goodwin » Noah Sanders » Kelly Gray » Amy Smith » Dawn Angelicca Barcelona We’ll...

  • Tue 7

    VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Meredith O’Brien & Leslie Gray Streeter

    July 7, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the...

  • Tue 7

    Virtual Event: Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan

    July 7, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Tuesday, July 7 at 12pm PDT when Merlin Sheldrake discusses his book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds &Shape Our...

  • Tue 7

    Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price

    July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    We’re thrilled to be launching The Crow Rider, Kalyn Josephson's thrilling conclusion to the epic Storm Crow duology that follows a fallen princess as she...

  • Tue 7

    Ben Ehrenreich

    July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    celebrating his new book Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time from Counterpoint Press This is a virtual event that will be...

  • Tue 7

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ball, Pelosi

    July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with national political journalist Molly Ball to discuss her book, Pelosi, an intimate, fresh...

  • Wed 8

    Borderlands Books hosts Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, to talk about new book

    July 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with The Angel of the Crows, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and...

  • Wed 8

    VIRTUAL: Thea Matthews and Maw Shein Win / Unearth [The Flowers]

    July 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    The Bindery hosts Thea Matthews for her first full-length book, Unearth , the first single-author title from local reading series and small press Red Light...

    Free
  • Thu 9
    flier for Power to the Poets: Uproar

    Power to the Poets: Uproar

    July 9, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern for POWER TO THE POETS: UPROAR! Via FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1869493649860368/?active_tab=about Hosts: Amos White...

    Free
  • Thu 9

    Borderlands Books hosts Jo Walton, author of OR WHAT YOU WILL

    July 9, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Come join Borderlands Bookstore as they host Jo Walton for her latest, OR WHAT YOU WILL! From Jo Walton, author of the critically-acclaimed and reader-beloved Among...

  • Thu 9

    Leslie Kern

    July 9, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    discussing the subject of her new book Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World published by Verso Books ----------- This is a virtual event...

  • Thu 9

    VIRTUAL: Juli Delgado Lopera in conversation with Daniel Handler / Fiebre Tropical

    July 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Are you still bummed we had to postpone the launch party for Juli Delgado Lopera and their debut novel, Fiebre Tropical? Us too! But be bummed no longer and...

  • Thu 9

    Author Joe Di Prisco Discussing The Good Family Fitzgerald w/ Ian Maloney | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom

    July 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with our friend and author, Joe Di Prisco, discussing his...

  • Sat 11

    Dashka Slater virtual launch!

    July 11, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    We’re excited to host the virtual launch of The Book of Fatal Errors, a tale of friendship, magic, and eternal life, an evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy--by local...

  • Sat 11

    Conversations with Authors – Tim Cahill (Virtual Event)

    July 11, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different...

  • Sun 12
    Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading

    Wales to Bay: A Poetry Reading

    July 12, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PDT

    Join us for a Transatlantic poetry reading with two poets from the SF Bay area, Caroline Goodwin and Sarah Kobrinsky, and two poets from Wales,...

  • Sun 12

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Kathryn Aalto, Writing Wild

    July 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with bestselling author of Kathryn Aalto (The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh) with her...

  • Mon 13

    VIRTUAL: Heather Lende in conversation with Sedge Thomson / Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics

    July 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Heather Lende for her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics. She'll be in conversation with Sedge Thomson....

  • Tue 14

    VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Jessica Pearce Rotondi & Lauren Francis-Sharma

    July 14, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the...

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