Poetry Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at...

Carolyn Burke, Foursome

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book, Foursome, a captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists...

Lisa Moore Ramee with Sabaa Tahir

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Join us to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated, funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel A Good Kind of Trouble,  about...

Spanish Book Discussion Group

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Patria - Fernando Aramburu Please note: the Spanish Book Group will not be meeting in February. El dia en que ETA anuncia el abandono de...

Lloyd Khan, Driftwood Shacks

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails....

Paul Beatty

Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United States

TUESDAY March 19, 2019 7PM Hammer Theatre 101 Paseo de San Antonio San José, CA Reading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by Associate...

National Geographic Explorer Academy

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

For science-loving, world-exploring young adventurers... National Geographic presents Explorer Academy with the help of actual National Geographic Explorer Erika Bergman — scientist, submersible pilot, and...

Katy Butler, The Art of Dying Well

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updates, or sign up for our events emails. This...

Laurie Halse Anderson

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

We are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for her new book, SHOUT, a memoir and call to action...

$5 – $22

Clive Thompson on the Future of Coding

HanaHaus 456 University Ave, PAlo Alto, CA

A comprehensive cultural portrait that Kirkus recommends for fans of John Markoff and Ari Levy, Clive Thompson offers smart, funny, necessary reporting with Coders: The...

$10 – $40

Laurie Halse Anderson, SHOUT

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for a discussion and signing of her new book, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo...

MARGARET DUMAS at Books Inc. Palo Alto

Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

Local author Margaret Dumas shares the first book in her humorous mystery series, Murder at the Palace: Movie Palace Mystery #1. Welcome to the Palace movie theater! Now Showing:...

Dave Eggers

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

A star at the heart of our literary constellations for decades, from the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to McSweeney’s, Dave Eggers returns...

$10 – $40

Meredith May, The Honey Bus

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

Meredith May, The Honey Bus THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2019 - 7:00PM An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious...

RHYS BOWEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto

Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

Award-winnig crime writer Rhys Bowen shares her heart-rending new novel, The Victory Garden. As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to...

LOLLY WINSTON at Books Inc. Campbell

Book Inc. Campbell 1875 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite #600, Campbell, CA

Lolly Winston--New York Times-bestselling author of Good Grief--discusses her poignant new novel, Me for You. The last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning,...

Laila Lalami

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Join us at Kepler's Literary Foundation for a book discussion with author Laila Lalami! From the celebrated Pulitzer Prize finalist who swept multiple book awards...

Story Time with Chris Van Dusen

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

A new book by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen is a cause for celebration. And we WILL be celebrating when Chris Van Dusen, one...

Non-Fiction Discussion Group

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the...

Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2019 - 7:00PM A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship...

Roz Chast & Patricia Marx on Mothers

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Much beloved, utterly genius contributors to The New Yorker for decades, the inimitable cartoonist Roz Chast and wry humorist Patricia Marx have now joined forces...

$15 – $35

Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

Patrice Vecchione, Ink Knows No Borders

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book, Ink Knows No Borders, a poetry collection that brings...

Dave Barry

Aragon High School Theater 900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mataeo, CA

After Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry turned 70, did he look to his friends for support? Did he find solace in the family around him? Not...

$15 – $45

Big Ideas Reading Group

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"?...

Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

Eve Bunting, Little Yellow Truck

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019 - 4:00PM This is an advanced children's event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events...

This is Now with Angie Coiro: The Future of Cannabis

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Cannabis is here to stay. While it's still blacklisted by the federal government, recreational marijuana is legal now in ten states, Washington DC, and the...

Lori Gottlieb with Irvin D. Yalom

Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

Lori Gottlieb is the bestselling author, therapist and speaker behind the Dear Therapist advice column at The Atlantic. In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,...

$15 – $45