TICKETS ON SALE for Tom Brokaw
Thursday, November 8th at 7:30pm at Rio Theater: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Tom Brokaw
Boom: Personal Reflections of the 60's and Today (Persea)
One of America’s premier journalists, the 20-year anchor of NBC’s Nightly News, and bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw now gives us an epic portrait of a fault line in American history: the tumultuous sixties. Through the voices of famous people and ordinary citizens, Boom! explores how both individuals and the nation were affected by a controversial era and how the aftershocks of the sixties continue to resound in our lives today.
- With the purchase of one copy of Boom, up to two event tickets can be bought at the reduced price of $12.00 each.
- Event tickets without book purchase are $25.00 each.
- Prepaid books available for in-store pickup by November 6.*
* Please Note: Picking up prepaid copies of Boom from the store prior to the November 8 event is strongly recommended. Those pre-paid copies remaining at Book Café after 4pm on November 8 will be brought to Rio Theatre.
Can’t attend the event? Purchase a book in advance and the author will autograph it for you!
Thursday, November 1st at 7:30pm
Eduardo Machado
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home
(Gotham)
Esteemed playwright Eduardo Machado (“Kissing Fidel”,“Havana is Waiting”) tells his life’s story through the culinary flavors of his past and memories of his eccentric family. Born into a well-to-do family in Cuba in 1953, Eduardo saw firsthand the effects of the rising Castro regime. When he and his brother were sent to the United States a Peter Pan flight in 1961, they did not know if they would ever see their parents or their home again. From his experience living in exile in Los Angeles, to becoming an actor, director, playwright and professor in New York, Machado explores what it means to say goodbye to one’s homeland, and what it means to be a Latino in America today. Tastes Like Cuba delivers a fascinating story of two worlds—and one delectable life.
Monday, November 5th at 11:00am
Storytime with Billie Harris *
Talented British actress and beloved radio personality Billie Harris will delight young readers—and soon-to-be-readers—every Monday at 11am by reading new stories and old tales. The animated reading will last about one half hour, be responsive to the group gathered that day, and can be followed by lunch from the special kid’s menu in the café.
(Of course, mochas, soup, sandwiches and cakes are available for parents, too!)
* Storytime occurs every Monday at 11am
Monday, November 5th at 7:30pm
Ann Aurelia Lopez
The Farmworkers' Journey
(University of California)
Over the course of ten years, López, research associate with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at UCSC, conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. She deftly weaves together their voices with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans—a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented. She brings together the many facets of this issue, from how migration affects family life to how genetically modified corn pouring into Mexico from the US is affecting farmers.Powerful and eminently readable, The Farmworkers' Journey traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.
Thursday, November 8th at 7:30pm at
Rio Theater: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Tom Brokaw
Boom: Personal Reflections of the 60's and Today (Persea)
One of America’s premier journalists, the 20-year anchor of NBC’s Nightly News, and bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw now gives us an epic portrait of a fault line in American history: the tumultuous sixties. Through the voices of famous people and ordinary citizens, Boom! explores how both individuals and the nation were affected by a controversial era and how the aftershocks of the sixties continue to resound in our lives today.
»With the purchase of one copy of Boom, up to two event tickets can be bought at the reduced price of $12.00 each.
» Event tickets without book purchase are $25.00 each.
» Prepaid books available for in-store pickup by November 6.*
» Tickets available via Capitola Book Café only.
* Please Note: Picking up prepaid copies of Boom from the store prior to the November 8 event is strongly recommended. Those pre-paid copies remaining at Book Café after 4pm on November 8 will be brought to Rio Theatre.
Can’t attend the event? Purchase a book in advance and the author will autograph it for you!
Sunday, November 11th from 1pm-5pm &
Monday, November 12th from 10am-1pm
Shakespeare Santa Cruz's Princess and the Pea Chair Tour
Are you princess enough (or enough of a royal prince?) to feel the pea under one hundred mattresses? Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s upcoming Holiday Show, The Princess & The Pea, is the story of Victoria, the Princess of Veracity, who must overcome true villains and false princesses and in order to prove her “royal-ness” and wed the dashing Prince. Want your own chance at royalty? Take a sit on the official Princess & The Pea chair and see if you can feel the pea!
SSC’s “Royal Pea Patrol” will be monitoring the The Princess & The Pea chair on Sunday, November 11 from 1pm to 5:00pm. Pea-testing will also occur on Monday, November 12 from 10am to 1pm as a fine addition to the 11am Storytime with Billie Harris who will read aloud the fabled story.
Monday, November 12th at 11:00am
Storytime with Billie Harris *
Talented British actress and beloved radio personality Billie Harris will delight young readers—and soon-to-be-readers—every Monday at 11am by reading new stories and old tales. The animated reading will last about one half hour, be responsive to the group gathered that day, and can be followed by lunch from the special kid’s menu in the café.
(Of course, mochas, soup, sandwiches and cakes are available for parents, too!)
* Storytime occurs every Monday at 11am
Tuesday, November 13th at 7:30pm
Poetry Santa Cruz
Alta Ifland was born in Eastern Europe, studied literature and philosophy in France, and currently lives in California. Voice of Ice is a bi-lingual (French/English) series of prose poems about the estranged self living outside of one’s native land and away from one’s native tongue. It is a “brilliant collection …document[ing] the quest for a coherent self, an authentic identity born out of the chaos of language and history,” according to poet Gary Young. Ralph Angel is a prolific poet and a distinguished professor of English and creative writing at the University of Redlands. Most recently he won the PEN USA Poetry Award for 2007 for Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006, the award committee commenting, “Meditative and mysterious, Angel's poetry tracks the subtle oscillations of consciousness against the backdrop of a culturally shifting and spiritually depleted world.”
Wednesday, November 16th at 6:30pm *
Book Club
Restless by William Boyd
(Bloomsbury)
This month’s selection is Restless by William Boyd. Someone is trying to kill Sally Gilmartin. It is the summer of 1976, and the only person she can trust is her daughter, Ruth, a young single mother struggling with her own demons. Now Sally must tell her daughter the truth: She is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré recruited for the British Secret Service in 1939. Soon Ruth is drawn deeper into the astonishing events of her mother’s past, including her work in New York City manipulating the press in order to shift public sentiment toward U.S. involvement in Second World War and her dangerous love affair with another spy. Ruth also discovers that her mother has one final assignment. This time, though, Eva can’t do it alone—she needs Ruth’s help. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest. Read the book and join the discussion.
* Please Note Time
SOLD OUT
Friday, November 16th at 7:30pm at
Rio Theatre: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Anthony Bourdain
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
(Bloomsbury)
Want to know where to get good fatty crab in Rangoon?
How to order your reindeer medium rare?
How to tell a Frenchman that his baguette is invading your personal space?
Anthony Bourdain is your man and this is your book.
Anthony Bourdain is the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, the executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, the host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations, and an undaunted global culinary ambassador. No Reservations is a behind-the-scenes world travel journal of his hell-for-leather world tour of food, travel and mayhem. Tracing his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, this entirely new work mixes beautiful photos with Bourdain’s outrageous commentary on what really happens when you give a bad-boy chef an open ticket to the world.
Can’t attend the event? Purchase a book in advance and the author will autograph it for you!
Monday, November 19th at 11:00am
Storytime with Billie Harris *
Talented British actress and beloved radio personality Billie Harris will delight young readers—and soon-to-be-readers—every Monday at 11am by reading new stories and old tales. The animated reading will last about one half hour, be responsive to the group gathered that day, and can be followed by lunch from the special kid’s menu in the café.
(Of course, mochas, soup, sandwiches and cakes are available for parents, too!)
* Storytime occurs every Monday at 11am
Tuesday, November 20th at 7:30pm
Andrew Szasa
Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
(University of Minnesota Press)
Many Americans today rightly fear that they are constantly exposed to dangerous toxins: tap water is contaminated with chemicals; foods contain pesticide residues, hormones, and antibiotics. Yet we have responded not by pushing for governmental regulation, but instead by shopping. We buy bottled water and organic food, for example, actions that Szasz sees as individual responses to collective environmental threats—not to mention, the products may not be providing such great protection after all. And when we can buy instant defense in a bottle, we feel no sense of urgency to actually do something to fix the larger problems. Professor and chair of UCSC’s department of sociology, Szasz (EcoPopulism) concludes we must seek substantive reform together.
Monday, November 26th at 11:00am
Storytime with Billie Harris *
Talented British actress and beloved radio personality Billie Harris will delight young readers—and soon-to-be-readers—every Monday at 11am by reading new stories and old tales. The animated reading will last about one half hour, be responsive to the group gathered that day, and can be followed by lunch from the special kid’s menu in the café.
(Of course, mochas, soup, sandwiches and cakes are available for parents, too!)
* Storytime occurs every Monday at 11am
Monday, November 26th at 7:30pm
Moon and a Mocha Night with Dana Mackenzie
The Big Splat, or How the Moon Came to Be (Wiley)
Step inside to order a hot mocha from our café, then step outside for a fresh look at our celestial companion—the moon! Science journalist Dana Mackenzie, the Santa Cruz-based author of The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be, hosts this fun community science event. He recently appeared in the History Channel documentary, The Moon (part of their summertime series The Universe), a show that was based on his book. He will show portions of the film, answer questions about all things moon, and set up a telescope so you can see it like never before (weather permitting, of course). Bring your curious kids and your questions.
Wednesday, November 28th at 7:30pm
Michael Krasny
Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life
(Stanford General Books)
KQED Radio’s Michael Krasny, host of Forum, is one of the country’s leading interviewers of literary and cultural luminaries. Once an aspiring writer, Krasny, after following a twisting path through the politically charged 1960s, would later discover his true calling: talking. In a mix of memoir, reportage, and sound-booth secrets, Off Mike gives an account of the polarization of talk radio, his civil and intelligent discussions, and the conversations he has had with Umberto Eco, Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, Norman Mailer, Francis Ford Coppola, Pat Buchanan, Molly Ivins, Wole Soyenka and others. (This event was originally scheduled for October 23 but was postponed by the publisher to November 28.)
Thursday, November 29th at 7:00pm *
World Affairs Book Group
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
(Metropolitan)
This month’s selection is The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, the bestselling author of No Logo who now shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic shock treatment, losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. At the core of such disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Read the book and join the discussion. More information: jenn_ramage@yahoo.com or 462-4415.
* Please Note Time
Thursday, November 29th at 7:30pm
An Intergenerational Dialogue: Women in the World
with
Bettina Aptheker, Intimate Poltics (Seal Press)
and
Megan Seely, Fight Like a Girl (NYU)
With one over 60 and the other under 35, Bettina Aptheker and Megan Seely are two of our most articulate and inspiring leaders in the feminist movement. Their experiences are many and varied, and their collective knowledge and camaraderie make for an inspiring multigenerational dialogue about the key issues facing women and girls today. Bettina Aptheker is a professor of feminist studies at UCSC whose recent memoir is Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech & Became a Feminist Rebel. Originally from Aromas, Megan Seely began her activism with the United Farm Workers, became the youngest state president of NOW, and authored the book Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist.
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