Tuesday, July 10th 7:30pm
Lisa See
Peony in Love
(Random House)
"I finally understand what
the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only
regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never
met, these lyrics from the opera The Peony Pavilion mirror her own
longings. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter
of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer
cage. Peony's unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and
sorrow are based on actual historical events of seventeenth-century
China.The author of Snowflower and the Secret Fan dazzles readers
yet again, exploring the richness and the harshness of China's culture,
the power of love and of words, and the age-old desire of women to
be heard.
Thursday, July 12th at 7:00pm *
Craft Café Night
Tired of knitting alone? Need
a little inspiration for your handwork, be it beading, sketching or
designing your summer skirt? Want to socialize while you sew? Join
Capitola Book Café for an informal gathering of customers who
enjoy craft work of all types and who are interested in exchanging
ideas and advice with like-minded creative types. Bring your project,
meet in the café, and enjoy a cup of tea. Come and go as you
please. Just getting started? 20% OFF all Craft titles tonight.
* Please Note Time.
Saturday, July 14th
Second Saturday Sale
Celebrate all the new happenings
at Capitola Book Café
AND SAVE!
20% OFF ALL HARDCOVERS*
10% OFF ALL PAPERBACKS*
*Inventory items only. Not valid with any other offer
Second Saturday Sales run through August 2007.
Tuesday, July 17th at 7:30pm
David Dodd
The Complete Annotated
Grateful Dead Lyrics
(Free Press)
With the careful scrutiny of
a scholar and the passion of a fan, David Dodd gives all devout Deadheads
the words to every original song from the band's repertoire, complete
with annotations that offer literary, historical and cultural references.
Lyricists Robert Hunter and John Barlow contribute essays to this
volume that includes 200 illustrations by artist Jim Carpenter and
greatly entertaining illuminations, like the influence of Shakespeare's
Richard III on the song "Black Muddy River." Dodd is currently
City Librarian for San Rafael and was formerly the Aptos librarian
and a UCSC "honorary" scholar with a fabulously entertaining
emphasis. (This event was previously scheduled for June 18.)
Wednesday, July 18th at 6:30pm *
Book Club
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
(Vintage Contemporaries)
This month's selection is Saul
and Patsy by Charles Baxter. Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly
where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they
met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in
the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier;
Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative
(and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town–a
place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum of earlier
American feelings”–where he has taken a job teaching high
school. Soon this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children
have become a part of their lives, first their own baby daughter and
then an unloved, unlovable boy named Gordy Himmelman. It is Gordy
who will throw Saul and Patsy’s lives into disarray with an inscrutable
act of violence. Read the book and join the discussion.
*Please Note Time
Thursday, July 19th at at 7:00pm *
World Affairs Book Club
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange
Rise of Modern India by Edward
Luce
(Doubleday)
This month's selection is In
Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward
Luce who makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power.
"In Spite of the Gods is not only fun to read, it is also a deeply
insightful account of contemporary India. Based on the author's rare
combination of intimacy and detachment, the book can serve…both
as a fine introduction for unacquainted outsiders and as a mature
scrutiny that is bound to stimulate insiders."-Professor Amartya
Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Read the book and join the discussion. For more information,
call the store 462-4415 or email jenn_ramage@yahoo.com.
There will be no World Affairs Book Club meeting in
August.
Saturday, July 21st begining at 8am
Harry Potter Breakfast
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling
Start the day like the best of
wizards do--get up early, eat right, get reading and learn more magic!
In honor of the first day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
can be (legally) conjured, Book Café invites all Potter fans
to enjoy breakfast treats magically created and generously donated
by The Buttery Bakery and Gayle's Bakery. Wander the
stacks to the wild and enchanting accordion chords of The Great Morgani
(in his full finery, of course), visit our Spell & Incantation
Tattoo Artist, and get a little color from Madame Fanny Frownie, Face
Painter. At approximately 8:30am, talented actress Billie Harris will
read aloud from the first chapter of the new book, and at approximately
9:00, Mr. Miraculous, magician and juggler, will entertain with all
sorts of surprising antics. All are welcome to attend this fun community
celebration of reading.
Pre-pay for your copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows before July 21
and you can choose your price:
30% OFF
OR
20% OFF AND Book Café donates 10% to Students in Transition,
a non-profit that supplies homeless children with the supplies they
need to attend school.
WHAT WOULD HARRY DO?
On Saturday July 21, the book will be discounted 20%.
Tuesday, July 24th at 7:30pm
Frank Perry
Lime Kiln Legacies: The History
of the Lime Industry in Santa Cruz County
(Museum of Art & History)
In the late 1800s Santa Cruz
County was the most important lime-producing region in California.
This fascinating look at our area's geology and culture, as well as
issues like labor and economics, tells the story of how lime was made,
the people who made it, and how the industry shaped the history of
Santa Cruz from the mission period to the present. Frank Perry is
a UCSC graduate and the author of Lighthouse Point. Co-authors include
Robert Piwarzyk, Michael Luther, Alverda Orlando, Allan Molho, Sierra
Perry and Kenneth Jensen.
Wednesday, July 25th at 7:30pm
J. Ruth Gendler
Notes on the Need for Beauty:
An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality
(Marlowe & Company)
Bay Area artist and writer Gendler
(The Book of Qualities) invites us celebrate the often misunderstood
quality of beauty as one of the most profound and essential forces
in our lives. Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science
and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the author
looks at her subject in its most generous implications-not simply
as a surface reflection, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity,
and ultimately, to love. This work of courage and curiosity includes
evocative line drawings by the author displays her strong, moving
voice.
Sunday, July 29th at 7:30pm
Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels:
A Thursday Next Novel
(Viking)
Beloved for his imagination,
his satirical gifts, and sheer silliness, Fforde has delighted readers
since literary detective Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre
Affair. Now Thursday returns! Though already busy with her lazy
son Friday who prefers to sleep rather than save the world (literally),
Thursday is faced with the sudden series-ending death of Sherlock
Holmes, the horrible decline of classic works into Reality TV shows,
and all sorts of other assaults on reading as it ought to be. Packed
with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned
suspense, Thursday's return is almost as exciting as welcoming back
from Wales Jasper Fforde himself. He will tickle your literary twitches
until you cry!
Tuesday, July 31st at 7:30pm
Daniel Farber
Retained by the People: The "Silent"
Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional RIghts Americans Don't Know
They Have
(Basic Books)
The Bill of Rights is clear on
the freedom of speech, but huge debates swirl around the rights that
are not explicitly listed. Is there a right to abortion? To assisted
suicide? UC Berkeley law professor Farber shows that these unlisted
rights are in fact firmly rooted in the Constitution, grounded in
the Ninth Amendment that states that the government cannot violate
basic human rights, even if those rights are not specifically written
in the Constitution-the brilliant result of foresight by the founding
fathers. Written for all readers and all citizens, this work focuses
on what could be an explosive-if previously overlooked-foundation
for rights that are under urgent discussion today.
AUGUST AUTHOR EVENTS
Thursday, August 2nd at 7:30pm
Alan Cheuse
The Fires
(Santa Fe Writer's Project)
Longtime book commentator on
National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," Cheuse
now demonstrates the range of his literary gifts in these finely-honed
portraits of hope and change, two novellas brilliantly linked. In
"The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan
to carry out her husband's final wish-to be cremated-only to find
herself entirely at sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet
republic, while in "The Exorcism," Tom Swanson begins to
make sense of his life when he retrieves his angry daughter from her
exclusive New England college after her expulsion for setting fire
to a grand piano.
Thursday, August 9th at 7:00pm *
Craft Café Night
Tired of knitting alone? Need
a little inspiration for your handwork, be it beading, sketching or
designing your summer skirt? Want to socialize while you sew? Join
Capitola Book Café for an informal gathering of customers who
enjoy craft work of all types and who are interested in exchanging
ideas and advice with like-minded creative types. Bring your project,
meet in the café, and enjoy a cup of tea. Come and go as you
please. Just getting started?
20% OFF all Craft titles tonight.
* Please Note Time.
Saturday, August 11th
Second Saturday Sale
Celebrate all the new happenings at Capitola Book
Café
AND SAVE!
20% OFF ALL HARDCOVERS*
10% OFF ALL PAPERBACKS*
*Inventory items only. Not valid with any other offer
This is the final Second Saturday of the season. Don't
miss it!
Tuesday, August 14th at 7:30pm
David Shalleck
Mediterranean Summer: A Season
on France's Cote D'Azur & Italy's Costa Bella
(Broadway)
David Shalleck has been a chef
in the best restaurants of New York and San Francisco and a television
producer working alongside talents like Jacques Pepin and Cat Cora
of the "Iron Chef." After undergoing an intense European
internship, David stumbles on the ultimate challenge: to cook for
Italy's most prominent couple and their summer guests while aboard
their classic sailing yacht, with no repeated meals, using exclusively
local ingredients that reflect the flavors of each port, presented
flawlessly to the couple's uncompromising taste-all from the confines
of the yacht's galley while at sea. Shalleck captures the glittery
Riviera social scene, the distinctive destinations along the way,
the realities of being a crew member, and the challenges of producing
world-class cuisine for the wealthy, stylish and demanding.
Not alluring enough? His recipes are included in the book and the
brilliant new chef of Gabriella Café, Sean Baker, will create
appetizers featuring local produce from Lindencroft Farm and other
local growers for everyone at the reading. Stay tuned for more details.
Wednesday, August 15th at 6:30pm *
Book Club
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
(Anchor)
This month’s selection is The Whole World Over by Julia Glass. Julia Glass, author of the award-winning novel Three Junes, tells a vivid tale of longing and loss, revealing the subtle mechanisms behind our most important connections to others. Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walter’s restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie’s coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts–heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision, along with events beyond Greenie’s control, will change the course of several lives around her. Read the book and join the discussion.
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