Community Calendar

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes, award-winning author of Hula, for a reading and signing of her new novel The Pōhaku—a dazzling saga about the generations of women tasked with protecting the history and place that made them.

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Claire Oshetsky (Poor Deer) for a discussion and signing of their new book Evil Genius, an exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman's insatiable quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way.

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution, featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist, teacher, and author Jim Newton.

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Kate Schatz (Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book) for a discussion about her latest novel Where the Girls Were. "[Kate Schatz's] prose is like poetry. It's like hands in a bowl of candy. Thrilling, propulsive, breathless, and brimming with Schatz's deep understanding of longing and frailty . . . of humanness." —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich.

This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Local Author and certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, Jessica Tomich Sorci for a conversation with Dana Ramsey about Sorci's new book "When Good Moms feel Bad," a first-of-its-kind guide to help moms untangle complicated feelings like anger, guilt, shame, and failure, offering empathy, support, and practical strategies.

This is a Free In-store Event & is co-sponsored by Nurture Women's Health and Fertility.

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes award-wining author Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down) for a discussion about her latest book Frog: And Other Essays, a new collection of evocative personal essays. "Affecting and often humorous . . . Fadiman has a knack for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, using everyday objects to explore such profound themes as grief, loss, and personal growth . . . Readers will be captivated." —Publishers Weekly

FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes local author and florist Teresa Sabankaya back to the store to share her newest book Modern Floriography: Flowers, Gardens, and Gifts Inspired by the Language of Flowers, with a special demonstration of floral and bouquet techniques. A little bit of self-help, floral design, history, and gardening wrapped into one beautifully illustrated book—perfect for those with green thumbs, flower arrangement lovers, or "gift giving is my love language" people.

Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event.

"The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more thoughtfully on it. . . . Russell’s lyrical writing dazzles on every page." —The New York Times

This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Join us for 'Hallelujah town...Liberation and Ecstasy," a reading featuring National Beat Poet Laureate and Pushcart Prize nominee Rich Ferguson, Post Modern renaissance Dadaist Mike Mollett, multidisciplinary performer/raconteur jerry the priest and interdisciplinary artist/poet and Pushcart Prize nominee Kathleen Florence!

Feel free to pack a lunch -- no cover!

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