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Winter Newsletter 2024

Upcoming Events

Chanukah Story Hour

Mon, 12/30/2024 - 5:00pm

Chanukah Story Hour

Winter Reading Program Mixer

Wed, 1/8/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Winter Reading Program Mixer

Hotel Paradox
611 Ocean Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Hive Live Barot Santana

Tue, 1/14/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

The Hive Live! Featuring Rick Barot & Cintia Santana

Liza Monroy event

Wed, 1/15/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Liza Monroy, The Distractions

Steve Lawton & Otter B Books event

Wed, 1/22/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

A Celebration of Steve Lawton & Otter B Books

Sonora Reyes event

Mon, 1/27/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Sonora Reyes, The Broposal

Neko Case

Fri, 2/7/2025 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Neko Case, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

Rio Theatre
1205 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Jennifer Finney Boylan event

Wed, 2/26/2025 - 7:00pm

Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage

In Store

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Bookshop holidays

The Mighty Red: A Novel

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Easy Weeknight Dinners: 100 Fast, Flavor-Packed Meals for Busy People Who Still Want Something Good to Eat [A Cookbook]

Season of the Swamp: A Novel

Into the Uncut Grass

The Truth According to Ember

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Intermezzo: A Novel

Entitlement: A Novel

Bright I Burn: A Novel

Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Fang Fiction: A Novel

We Solve Murders: A Novel

Model Home: A Novel

The City in Glass

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches: A Cookbook

Milk Street Bakes: A Baking Book with 200 Sweet and Savory Recipes

The Strangest Fish

My Mexican Kitchen: 100 Recipes Rich with Tradition, Flavor, and Spice: A Cookbook

Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide

The Food Forward Garden: A Complete Guide to Designing and Growing Edible Landscapes

Blood Over Bright Haven: A Novel

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Wind and Truth: Book Five of the Stormlight Archive

Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)

Intermezzo: A Novel

The God of the Woods: A Novel

The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel

All Fours: A Novel

The Grey Wolf: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #19)

The Women: A Novel

Playground: A Novel

Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel

The Wedding People: A Novel

Martyr!: A novel

The Life Impossible: A Novel

The Mighty Red: A Novel

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cher: Part One: The Memoir (The Cher Memoir #1)

What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Patriot: A Memoir

Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy: A Cookbook

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Demon Copperhead: A Novel

The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

North Woods: A Novel

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1)

The Berry Pickers: A Novel

Wicked [Movie tie-in]: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

The Hunter: A Novel

The Best American Short Stories 2024

The Vegetarian: A Novel

The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1)

Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac Trade Edition

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1)

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of America

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The Best American Essays 2024

World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Winter Reading Program

Holiday Book Drive 2024