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Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Ave
Capitola CA 95010
At the corner of 41st Ave & Capitola Rd, next to the 41st Ave Cinema
(831) 462-4415
Open Mon-Sat 9am-10pm
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Dear Readers & Writers,
Summer Reading is in its glorious heyday. Be sure you've always got a book close at hand!
Exciting news...
 LULU'S AT CAPITOLA BOOK CAFÉ!Capitola Book Café is proud to announce a partnership with fellow local independent business, Lulu Carpenter's.
Lulu's at Capitola Book Café
Mon-Sat 6am-10pm, Sun 6am-8pm
Browse the stacks and enjoy the best coffee in the county!
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Novella Carpenter
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Penguin)
Tuesday, July 7 at 7:30pm |
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 FARMING IN THE GHETTO
Novella Carpenter loves cities yet she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies. When she moved to inner city Oakland and discovered a weed-choked, garbage-strewn abandoned lot next door, she pictured heirloom tomatoes, a beehive, and a chicken coop. This all came to be, as well as other city-grown crops and two three-hundred-pound pigs. With her neighbors including a homeless man, prostitutes and even Vietnamese monks, urban meets rural in the most surprising ways on this strange and beautiful farm. Farm City gives the local food movement gets a whole new flavor. |
Vinnie Hansen
Death With Dessert (Mostly Murder)
Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30pm |
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 LOCAL MYSTERY AUTHOR
Long-time Watsonville High English teacher Vinnie Hansen continues the adventures of Carol Sabala that begun with Murder, Honey and continued in One Tough Cookie, Rotten Dates, and Tang Is Not Juice. The death of Carol's mother propels her on a hunt for her long-absent Mexican-American father. She leaves Santa Cruz, headed for Zihuatanejo, and the mysteries and danger grow. |
Wine Lecture & Tasting
TESTAROSSA WINERY
Sunday, July12 at 3:00pm |
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 Testarossa Winery, located in the historic Novitiate of Los Gatos, was founded by the husband and wife team of Rob and Diana Jensen. Leaving high-tech careers behind, they started by producing 25 cases in their garage. Today, they produce over 15,000 cases annually and have earned hundreds of 90-point-plus scores on their wines.
Joining us today is co-founder and proprietor Diana Jensen. She will treat us to wines of uncommon complexity and beautiful balance: 2007 Castello Chardonnay, 2007 Bien Nacido Vineyard Chardonnay, 2007 Palazzio Pinot Noir and 2007 Sleepy Hollow Vineyard Pinot Noir.
A cheese & bread selection is included in the $8 participation fee. |
STORYTIME FOR KIDS!
Mondays at 11am
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 Kids & adults listen to animated readings by former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and the fun-loving, boisterous Book Cafe manager Jill Rose. All ages are welcome as the readers enjoy making sure all listeners are engaged in the stories.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz:
Shipwrecked! Director Eric Ting
Monday, July 13 at 7:30pm |
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SHIPWRECKED! EXPLORED
With the Shakespeare Santa Cruz summer season beginning July 25, we welcome Eric Ting, director of Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself), a play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies. Embracing theatricality in its truest and purest form, Shipwrecked! weaves its magic spell as Louis retells his stories of adventure, daring, intrigue, and dissolution and, in the end, fills our hearts with joy and laughter.
A show for the entire family. |
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Richard's Book Club
Wednesday, July 15 at 6:30pm |
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 This month's selection is Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. Read the book and join us upstairs for the discussion. At the age of twenty-seven, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. From 1914 to 1931 she managed the plantation, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years is transformed by the magic of her prose and her supreme gift as a storyteller into a vibrant re-creation of Africa, filled with her affection for and understanding of the land and its people. |
Joan Gilbert Martin, Editor, & Contributors
Pathways to the Past: Adventures in Santa Cruz County History, Journal 6
(Museum of Art & History)
Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30pm |
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 LOCAL HISTORY AT ITS BEST
Beginning with reminiscences of a pre-statehood pioneer and concluding with a poem inspired by the 1989 earthquake, these tales of Santa CruzCounty history speak of heroism and every-day life, of early spiritualism and civil rights, and feature the work of local artists. Celebrating this latest publication from the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History with us will be Editor Joan Gilbert Martin and contributors Carolyn Swift, Stanley D. Stevens & Alverda Orlando. |
Capitola Cares: Neighborhood Night
Thursday, July 16 from 6-8pm |
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 REACHING OUT NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
Inspired by Obama's call to service, Capitola residents have teamed up to create an active, caring, connected community network of neighbors who take care of each other and our community. Current projects include graffiti abatement, the buy local movement, providing rides for senior citizens and more. Tell us your ideas. From 6-7pm, mingle and brainstorm while shopping for books at Capitola Book Café and enjoying a light dinner and drinks at Lulu's at Capitola Book Café, two local businesses partnering to keep our town a vibrant hub of culture and community. At 7pm hear updates about current projects and learn how you can participate. Also, there will be book recommendations and a gift certificate raffle. Bring your used books, too, for cash or store credit. Please RSVP by July 9th to capitolacares@gmail.com (though all are welcome, RSVP or not). For more information, contact Barbara Gorson at 464-6717. |
Steven Saylor
Triumph of Caesar (Griffin/Minotaur)
in conversation with
Michael Warren of Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Sunday, July 19 at 5:30pm |
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 CAESAR, CAESAR EVERYWHERE
With Julius Caesar opening on August 5, we have brought together Steven Saylor, the international bestselling author who brings ancient Rome to life, and the dynamic Shakespeare expert Michael Warren, UCSC Professor Emeritus and textual consultant to Shakespeare Santa Cruz since its inception.
 Saylor's extraordinary Roma Sub Rosa series continues with Triumph of Caesar, now in paperback. When Caesar's wife asks Gordianus the Finder to uncover a suspected plot against her husband's life, the investigator "plunges into the scary, fascinating world of Roman plots and betrayals...Fast-paced action, a deeply realized main character, and accessible history make this series first-rate on all fronts." -Booklist.
Join Caesar and Shakespeare, as well as Steven Saylor and Michael Warren, for an entertaining and informative discussion of ancient Rome.
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Mary Roach
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (W.W.Norton)
Tuesday, July 21 at 7:30pm
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 SCIENCE & SEX GET SERIOUS AND SERIOUSLY FUNNY
"The funniest science writer in the country" ( The New Yorker), Mary Roach has pondered the secret lives of cadavers ( Stiff) and the odd possibilities of the afterlife ( Spook) and now turns her outrageous curiosity on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Research on sexual physiology has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, and Alfred Kinsey's attic. Mary steps behind those doors with investigative glee. Roach shows us why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex and delightful scientific phenomena on earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing about it. (Rescheduled from April 2009) |
| World Affairs Book Club
Thursday, July 23 at 7:00pm
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month's selection is The Post-American World (W.W. Norton) by Fareed Zakaria. Read the book and join the discussion.
The author
of the bestselling The Future of Freedom
and Editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zakaria describes
a world in which the U.S. will no longer dominate the global
economy. He sees the "rise of the rest" as the great story of modern
times, and one that will reshape the world.
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Books for a Better Life Book Club
Tuesday, July 28 at 6:30pm |
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 DISCUSS THE BOOK WITH THE AUTHOR, JAIMAL YOGIS!
This month's selection is Saltwater Buddha:A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea by Jamail Yogis. The author will join the discussion. Read the book and join us, too. Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries and the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue. |
Alan Cheuse
A Trance After Breakfast (Sourcebooks)
Wednesday, July 29 at 7:30pm
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LITERARY TRAVELER
NPR
commentator, poetic wanderer and novelist ( To
Catch the Lightning, The Fires) Alan Cheuse has crafted a collection of
writings about his travels that are very much journeys of the soul. He lures
the reader around the world, from Bali and New Zealand to Mexico and back home again to his native New Jersey, making the foreign familiar and
the familiar slightly foreign. A lyrical work that will enchant, captivate, and
transport readers. |
Gigi Durham, PhD
The Lolita
Effect (Overlook Press)
Thursday, July 30 at 7:30pm
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MEDIA
SEXUALIZATION OF YOUNG GIRLS AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT
Brand name
thong underwear for ten-year-olds; underdressed celebrities gone wild; dolls
with "sexy" clothing lines for preteen girls: how do we raise
sexually healthy young women in this kind of environment? The Lolita Effect offers
concerned adults effective and progressive strategies for resisting the
violations and repressions that put girls at risk. Dr. Durham is a professor of
journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa and a passionate advocate for
children's rights and social justice. | |
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