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Welcome to Bookshop Santa Cruz. We pride ourselves on being a locally owned and operated business with strong connections to our community. We hope that this website will help supplement your experience with our store. On our website, you can get information about upcoming author events, browse through our current newsletter, read staff recommendations, check out past winners of our photo and story contests, and--of course--search for and purchase books and other Bookshop Santa Cruz products.
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Summer Newsletter
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Bookshop's Summer Newsletter is online and filled with hot recommendations for all your reading needs. Click on the "Read More" link above or on the "Current Newsletter" link to the left to peruse our staff's sage words on select books.
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The Plague of Doves
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Erdrich, Louise
I have to admit that the first solo scene of Erdrich’s newest novel made me wince. It was stark and unexplained,
brutal in its images, unclear in its outcome. Of course, by the end of the novel, Erdrich’s genius played itself out, and the end result is worthy of a standing ovation. The book begins in the year 1911, in a remote town in North Dakota that borders an Indian reservation. The book then makes a dramatic shift and we are plunged into a completely different scene and time, one that feels
altogether unconnected to the book’s initial brutality. Erdrich does this again and again, taking us through different perspectives, different times, and different storylines--layering each one into an ensemble that comes together to tell the whole story. But this is not a tale that can be easily concluded--it speaks of racial tensions, cultural blending, and the role faith plays in redemption but also in sin; the pitch Erdrich ends on is one that is complicated and not without pathos, but it is also true and fine, echoing into our imaginations and holding.
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Bookshop Recommends
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One of the great strengths of our store is the booksellers who make it all possible. Our staff devours books, each with their own inclinations but all with voracity and enthusiasm. Get any of us talking about our favorite books and you'll get more than you asked for. But because you did ask....
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20th Century Eightball
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Clowes, Daniel
The graphic novelist behind Ghost World collects here most of his earlier work, mostly semi-autobiographical and always hilarious and perverse. The noted story Art School Confidential is included, but it is Clowe’s wide array of anti-social, romantically inept and inwardly focused characters that unite this collection. -Zack |
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All Things Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz is an amazing town. Check out our selection of All Things Santa Cruz, from local authors to local history and even some local travel guides.
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Moments Without Names: New & Selected Prose Poems
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Marcus, Morton
Sixty-five new poems take their place beside forty-five poems published in Marcus's previous two books. Employing and many times parodying the structures of discourse by which we have communicated our sense of the world through the ages, Marcus re-examines the notions on which the human species has understood its place in the universe. In the process, he has created his own cosmology-a cosmology by turns humorous, satirical, poignant, and always compassionate in revealing our beliefs, foibles, hopes, and contradictory actions.Morton Marcus is the author of seven books of poetry and one novel, "The Brezhvev Memo," A film historian and critic as well as a poet, Marcus taught film and literature at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, until his retirement. |
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