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Summer Reading Program 2026

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Where's Waldo Grand Finale Party Promotional Image

Sun, 8/2/2026
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Where's Waldo Grand Finale Party

BSC Sponsors Rita Dove at Cabrillo College for our 60th Anniversary

Sun, 8/9/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Rita Dove, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
307 Church Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Promotional image for Clifford Mae Henderson event

Tue, 8/11/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Clifford Henderson, Lost in Sound

Bookstore Romance Day 2026

Sat, 8/15/2026
9:00am - 5:00pm

Bookstore Romance Day

Nina Simon event

Mon, 8/17/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Nina Simon, My Sister Is Going to Kill Me

Promotional image for event with Steve Hawk

Wed, 8/19/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Steve Hawk, Nearshore

Promotion for Winter in America (Still event

Tue, 8/25/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Winter in America (Still

Promotional image for Dave Evans event

Thu, 8/27/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Dave Evans, How to Live a Meaningful Life

Promotional image for Cooking Thai event

Tue, 9/1/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Pim Techamuanvivit & Andrea Nguyen, Cooking Thai

Paula Arai Event Promotional Image

Thu, 9/3/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Paula Arai, Of Mud and Lotuses

Promotional image for event with Susan Schillinglaw

Tue, 9/8/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Susan Shillinglaw, Steinbeck's Landscapes

Laurie R King Event Promotional Image

Wed, 9/9/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Laurie R. King, Those Who Are Gone

Promotional image for Hive Live poetry event

Tue, 9/15/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

The Hive Live! Featuring Amber Coverdale Sumrall & Jen Siraganian

Promotional image for Pedro Martin event

Wed, 9/16/2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Pedro Martín, Mexikid Dreams: A Graphic Memoir

Promotional image for Curtis Reliford event

Wed, 9/23/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Curtis Reliford, Madness to Surrender

Promotional image for event with Joseph Fink

Mon, 9/28/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Joseph Fink, The Nudge

Gift Cards

Slug Shop Gear

Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

Whistler: A Novel

Cool Machine: A Novel (The Harlem Trilogy #3)

The Calamity Club

The Correspondent: A Novel

Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)

Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)

The Shampoo Effect: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel

The Midnight Train: A Novel (The Midnight World)

The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)

Villa Coco: A Novel

The Things We Never Say: A Novel

The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5)

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

The Land and Its People: Essays

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir

Famesick: A Memoir

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award

Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism

The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love

The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

Theo of Golden: A Novel

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In): A Novel

Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story

Dolly All the Time: A GMA Book Club Pick

Red Rising (Red Rising Series #1)

The God of the Woods: A Novel

Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel

My Friends: A Novel

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

I Who Have Never Known Men

The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel

The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation #1)

Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2)

Raising Hare: A Memoir

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Is a River Alive?

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel

Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three

The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)

The Skeleton and the Cat

InvestiGators: Weather or Not

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14) (I Survived Graphix #14)

The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel (The New Girl #2)

Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #19) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Don't Trust Fish

The Inheritance Games

Better Than the Movies

Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, Part One of Three

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)

Encore!: A Graphic Novel

Goldenborn: A GMA Book Club Pick

Ladies of the Knight

The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)

A Prince Among Pirates

The Secret World of Briar Rose

To Dance the Moon and Stars (A Graphic Novel)

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