New Books for Winter Reading & Holiday Gift Giving

Reader's Club Newsletter 

Featuring

• Holiday Gift Guide
• New & Recommended Fiction
• Wild Things & Graphic Novels
• Mystery & Science Fiction
• Poetry 
• New & Recommended Nonfiction
• Biography
• History & Politics
• Cookbooks & Food Writing
• Home & Garden
• Science & Nature
• Arts, Crafts, & Photography
• Humor
• Music & the Performing Arts
• Travel & Adventure
• Spirituality
• Sports
• Health & Reference
• Books for Young Readers: The Moon
• More Books for Young Readers
• The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
• Trusted Source Partners
• Photo Contest Winner
• Enter Our Eighth Annual Short Story Contest
• Your Community Bookstore, ONE CLICK AWAY
• Training Ourselves to Live

On the Cover

“Oceans Don’t Freeze” (2007) by Jen Corace. Bookshop favorite Jen Corace is an artist and freelance illustrator who lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. She concerns herself with Victorian-era photographic portraiture, reading up on any and every animal, eating toast, and securing large amounts of personal space. Jen has illustrated numerous delightful children’s books, including Little Pea, Little Hoot, Hansel and Gretel, and The Humblebee Hunter (to be published in February 2010). Her website is: jencorace.com.

Bookshop Baby
The year 2009 brought the arrival of a new addition to the Bookshop family: owner Casey Coonerty Protti and Michel Protti welcomed their son, Devin Raymond Bernard, on July 7th. Congratulations Casey, Michel, and big sister Claire!

Fall is the season for new books and this year is one to remember. Our head book buyer said she has not seen a line-up of this caliber in over twenty years. There are new books by Margaret Atwood, Tracy Kidder, Jon Krakauer, Richard Dawkins, E.L. Doctorow, and Audrey Niffenegger, to name only a few. We've put together a supplemental newsletter highlighting some of our favorites of the early fall releases (more to come in our Winter Newsletter, published in mid-October). You can pick up a printed copy of the newsletter in the store or view the recommendations from it on the three pages listed below. The books are quite spectacular and make it fun to be a bookseller. Happy reading!

• Fiction
• Nonfiction Page 1
• Nonfiction Page 2

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WISH LISTS

The Santa Cruz Public Libraries' would like to add many more books to their inventory, but their book budget has been cut by more than half this year. You can support local libraries by purchasing books on their wish list for their collection!
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries' complete wish list is available at our information desk. Simply select a book from the list (or choose one of your own), pay for it at our register, and leave it with our bookseller. We will make sure it gets to the library. If you want to make purchases online, just choose the "pick up in store" method of shipping and then during checkout there will be an opportunity for you to list special instructions (just after payment method), please enter Library Wish List Donation.

Thank you for supporting local libraries!
You can also purchase a Bookshop Santa Cruz gift card (in any amount) that will be given to the libraries so that they can buy the exact books they need.

click here to see the Library Wish Lists

click here to read the Santa Cruz Sentinel Article about the Wish Lists