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SUMMARY:An Evening with Madeleine Albright
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright\, the United States’ first female Secretary of State\, who will speak about her book\, Fascism: A Warning\, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. This ticketed event will take place at theKaiser Permanente Arena and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and Temple Beth El. \nOf all the unanswered questions of our time\, declared George Orwell in 1944\, perhaps the most important is\, What is fascism? Madeleine Albright has an answer: not as an explanation of the past\, but as a warning for the present. As she shows with insight\, humor\, and personal storytelling\, fascism not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. \nWritten by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it\, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past. \nMadeleine Albright served as America’s sixty-fourth Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career also includes positions at the White House\, on Capitol Hill\, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Madam Secretary\, The Mighty and the Almighty\, Memo to the President\, and Read My Pins. \nEvent Photos by Shmuel Thaler: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nTickets are $23.00 and include 1 general admission ticket to the event and 1 pre-signed paperback copy of Fascism: A Warning. (The book is $17.99 and publishes on January 29.) All books will be distributed at the venue. \nPlease note that Madeleine Albright will not be doing a signing at the event. \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evening-madeleine-albright/
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SUMMARY:Book of Joy Community Read
DESCRIPTION:Join Book of Joy author Doug Abrams\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz Public Libraries\, Temple Beth El\, and The Humanities Institute for a community-wide discussion and celebration around the themes of kindness and joy.  During this time of social and cultural division and at a time when many are feeling a sense of despair\, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu is an ideal book to discuss as a community. Abrams will share some of the rare footage from the historic meeting of these global icons in Dharamsala\, India and will then facilitate a dialogue with several community faith leaders—Rabbi Paula Marcus\, Father Cyprian Consiglio\, Reverend Deborah Johnson\, and Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi—who will talk about different spiritual traditions that lift up joy and compassion. The afternoon will conclude with a book signing and musical performance. \nFree & Open to the Public. This event will take place at Temple Beth El\, 3055 Porter Gulch Road\, Aptos. \nAbout the book: The Book of Joy has sold over a million copies around the world in over 38 countries. The Book of Joy was on the New York Times bestseller list for almost a year\, awarded the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award\, and chosen as one of “Oprah’s Favorite Things.” \nAbout the panelists: \nSenior Rabbi Paula Marcus has served Temple Beth El in a variety of capacities since 1979.  She received her ordination and masters degree in Rabbinic studies in May 2004\, from the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles. Rabbi Marcus sees activism and interfaith work as important aspects of her of her rabbinic work. She serves on the national board of T’ruah\, a Rabbinic Human Rights organization. and has helped to facilitate workshops for Jewish Funds for Justice\, Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action\, Out in Our Faith and The Tent of Abraham. \nFather Cyprian Consiglio is a Camaldolese Benedictine monk\, currently serving as the prior of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur. Having lived in the Santa Cruz area for ten years\, he is well-known on the Central Coast as a musician\, author\, and teacher\, particularly for his interreligious work. \nReverend Deborah Johnson is the founding minister and president of Inner Light Ministries in Soquel. A life-long social justice activist\, Rev. Deborah is the successful co-litigant in two landmark cases in California – one set precedent for the inclusion of sexual orientation in the state’s Civil Rights Bill\, the other defeated the challenge to legalizing domestic partnerships. A voice for compassion\, equality\, and reconciliation\, her primary focus has been on coalition building\, conflict resolution\, public policy development\, and cultural sensitivity awareness. \nVen. Tenzin Chogkyi is a Buddhist nun and teacher in residence at Land of Medicine Buddha in Soquel\, California. Ven. Tenzin is also a certified teacher of Cultivating Emotional Balance and Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training\, and has been teaching in prisons for over a decade.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-joy-community-read/
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SUMMARY:Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing - Bridge of Clay
DESCRIPTION:Markus Zusak\, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book\, Bridge of Clay\, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga\, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart\, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are on sale at Bookshop Santa Cruz and at https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/markus-zusak. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz and KAZU. \nThis offsite book discussion and signing event will be held at: Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building\, 846 Front St.\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30.00\, include one copy of Bridge of Clay and one ticket to the event. One companion ticket may be purchased for $10.00. (No book included. Limit one per full price ticket.) \nThe publication date of Bridge of Clay is October 9th\, 2018. Ticket packages purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of Bridge of Clay (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after October 9th\, or at the venue on the night of the event). \nThe breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world\, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. \nAt the center of the Dunbar family is Clay\, a boy who will build a bridge–for his family\, for his past\, for greatness\, for his sins\, for a miracle. \nThe question is\, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? \nMarkus Zusak is the author of the extraordinary international bestseller The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger\, an LA Times Book Award Finalist and Printz Award Honor book. He lives in Sydney\, Australia\, with his wife and children.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/markus-zusak-book-discussion-signing-bridge-clay/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book\, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic–athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. A funny\, intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \nMicah Perks is the author of What Becomes Us\, a novel; We Are Gathered Here\, a novel; Pagan Time\, a memoir; and a long personal essay from Shebooks\, Alone In The Woods. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won an NEA\, five Pushcart Prize nominations\, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nRead more about Perks and her teaching in a recent interview by UCSC Literature PhD Student\, Thais Miller. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. \nIf you have any ADA accomodation requests\, please contact bookshopevents@gmail.com by October 22nd.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-book-launch-true-love-dreams-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan: "Manhattan Beach"
DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel\, Manhattan Beach. \nTickets for this special offsite event (which will be held at Peace United Church) are on sale now online at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nJoin us prior to the event for a wine reception at 6:30. \nPraise for Manhattan Beach\nManhattan Beach may seem like a straightforward historical novel\, but with Egan’s peerless writing and keen emotional intelligence\, it plumbs the depths of human will\, connection\, and reinvention. Mesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime\, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America\, and the world. \n– Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n– A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n– A New York Times Notable Book & Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017\n– Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction\n– Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction\n– Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR\, The Guardian & Kirkus Reviews \n“Joy\, purification\, renewal\, death—the sea is all of these things in Manhattan Beach\, Jennifer Egan’s intricately patterned and visionary new novel.” —The Atlantic \n“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda\, Bookshop Head Book Buyer \nBio\nJennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. \n \nTicket Details\nTicket packages are $20.00 and include one ticket to the event and one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only\, no book included) is available for $7.00 when purchasing a ticket package.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-egan-manhattan-beach/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Event Layout
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LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon: "Moonglow"
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Telegraph Avenue) for an offsite book talk and signing of Moonglow\, his first novel in four years. \nMoonglow takes the form of a grandfather’s deathbed confession to his grandson and covers the course of the 20th century. It is a novel of truth and lies\, family legends\, and existential adventure and the forces that work to destroy us. \n  \n“Chabon’s most beautifully realized novel to date …. a masterful and resounding novel of the dark and blazing forces that forged our tumultuous\, confounding\, and precious world.” —Booklist\, starred review \n“Luminous…. The story builds to core revelations of wartime horror and postwar heartbreak as powerful as they come.” —Library Journal\, starred review \n“With clean prose and a candid tone\, Chabon narrates the questionable deathbed confession of a character referred to only as ‘my grandfather.’ Although the ratio of truth to fiction in this compelling tale may never be known\, Moonglow is an engaging\, existential adventure through the speculative past of an enigmatic figure.” –Aric\, Bookshop staff \n  \nThis special offsite event\, cosponsored by UCSC’s Institute for Humanities Research\, will take place at Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz. \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $32.53\, and include one copy of Moonglow and two tickets to the event. Purchase tickets below (or at Bookshop)\, while supplies last. \nPurchase tickets at BookshopSantaCruz.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-chabon-moonglow-3/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Geraldine Brooks: "The Secret Chord"
DESCRIPTION:Now out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning\, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks\, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David’s journey from obscurity to fame\, from shepherd to soldier\, from hero to traitor\, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The Chicago Tribune wrote\, “Deeply sympathetic. Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennial… she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers\, a daughter\, a mother—the beloved and the scorned.” The Guardian called it “A compelling read\, contemporary in its relevance… powerful storytelling\, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” And NPR raves: “The best historical fiction… Brooks gives the whole king his due… It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being\, and she manages it admirably.” \nGeraldine Brooks is the author of four novels\, the Pulitzer Prize winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing\, People of the Book\, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia\, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband\, the author Tony Horwitz. \nSponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz\, Institute of Humanities Research\, and Co-sponsored by Temple Bethe El.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geraldine-brooks-the-secret-chord-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks: "What Becomes Us"
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author\, professor\, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident\, Evie\, a mild-mannered\, pregnant school teacher\, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a close-knit community that is divided by local colonial history\, a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience—and when she begins teaching at the local high school\, Evie herself becomes obsessed with The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson\, the first book written by a woman in the Americas that details Rowlandson’s captivity during King Philip’s War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson’s insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie’s dreams\, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time\, Evie’s connections to her new community begin to simmer\, and as she grows more pregnant\, her desires and hunger grow out of control\, threatening to destroy her new world. Ten years in the making\, What Becomes Us will hold you to the last page with its unforgettable cast and story. \n“Micah Perks’ book has everything a reader could hope for — her language is lively\, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape\, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original\, completely delightful.”  –Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“I’ve been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years\, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm\, wild\, hilarious\, eccentric and moving book.”  –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Arcadia \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here\, a memoir\, Pagan Time\, and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \nSponsored by BookShop Santa Cruz and Institute of Humanities Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/micah-perks-what-becomes-us-3/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Armstrong: "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence"
DESCRIPTION:The renowned author of A History of God will discuss and sign copies of her new book\, Fields of Blood—a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. \nFor the first time\, religious self-identification is on the decline in America. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11 perception: that faith in general is a source of aggression\, intolerance\, and divisiveness—something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? With deep learning and sympathetic understanding\, Karen Armstrong sets out to discover the truth about religion and violence in each of the world’s great traditions\, taking us on an astonishing journey from prehistoric times to the present. \n“A definitive voice in defense of the divine in human culture.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nThis offsite ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church. Purchase tickets below or in-person at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nKaren Armstrong is a provocative\, original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world. A former Roman Catholic nun and a world-renowned religious scholar\, she is the author of numerous bestsellers including A History of God\, The Battle for God\, Islam\, Buddha\, and The Spiral Staircase. \nTICKETS: $32.70\, includes two tickets to the event and one copy of Fields of Blood. This event will take place at Peace United Church. Open seating.\n  \nTickets & Information\n \n  \nEvent presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-armstrong-fields-of-blood-religion-and-the-history-of-violence-2/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Azar Nafisi: "The Republic of Imagination"
DESCRIPTION:The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book\, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives. \nTen years ago\, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller\, Reading Lolita in Tehran\, which told the story of how\, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions\, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up\, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned\, beguiling\, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. \nTaking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle\, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran\, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\, Babbitt\, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination\,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. \n“Nafisi makes a passionate argument for returning to key American novels in order to foster creativity and engagement.” —Kirkus Reviews \nThis offsite ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church. Purchase tickets below or in-person at Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n“We are all citizens of Azar Nafisi’s Republic of Imagination. Without imagination there are no dreams\, without dreams there is no art\, and without art there is nothing. Her words are essential.” —Marjane Satrapi \nTICKETS: $31.50\, includes two tickets to the event and one copy of The Republic of Imagination. This event will take place at Peace United Church. Open seating.\n  \nTickets & Information\n \n  \nEvent presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/azar-nafisi-the-republic-of-imagination-2/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Billy Collins: "Aimless Love"
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection\, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet and artist Gary Young\, who teaches at UCSC and was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate\, will introduce Mr. Collins. \nBilly Collins is famous for conversational\, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky\, tender or profound observation on the everyday\, reading and writing\, and poetry itself. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books—Nine Horses\, The Trouble with Poetry\, Ballistics\, and Horoscopes for the Dead. By turns playful\, ironic\, and serious\, Collins’s poetry captures the nuances of everyday life while leading the reader into zones of inspired wonder. In the poet’s own words\, he hopes that his poems “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Touching on the themes of love\, loss\, joy\, and poetry itself\, these poems showcase the best work of this “poet of plenitude\, irony\, and Augustan grace” (The New Yorker).\n  \nThis offsite event will take place at UCSC Music Recital Hall. Parking is $3\, but is located next to the venue and is easily accessible. \nPeople with disabilities needing assistance are asked to contact us in advance: email bookshopevents@yahoo.com or call 46-3232\nPLEASE NOTE: Tickets will be sold by row\, with open seating within each row. If you are planning on attending this event with others\, you will want to purchase tickets as a group if you’d like to sit next to each other.\n  \nTICKETS: $28.30\, includes one ticket to the event & one copy of Aimless Love. \nPurchase Tickets\n  \nAuthor photo courtesy of Suzannah Gilman
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/billy-collins-aimless-love-2/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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