The funny, outrageous, and inspiring memoirs of local singer-actress and Handyman Co-op owner who found lust, love, and—finally—peace with herself…in her 70’s.
Our local history section is located in our travel section, just in front of the information desk. The following is just a selection of the titles that we offer in the store.
ISBN-13: 9780933670129 Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Rising Star Press, 02/01/2005
This volume offers a selection of his best humor, ponderings and reflections. His remembrances of summers with Grandma in the hills behind Watsonville, California, the rites of passage for his children growing up in Santa Cruz, and the everyday life for families everywhere will have you chuckling, sighing and outright belly-laughing. --Rising Star Press
ISBN-13: 9780932319005 Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability Published: Capitola Book Co., 12/01/1989
This classic book continues to stand as the first region-wide treatment of an immigrant group in the Monterey Bay Region. It follows the immigrants from China and their descendants from the earliest days to the 1980s, chronicling their tragedies and triumphs.
ISBN-13: 9780738520810 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC), 10/01/2002
A new book by Sheila O'Hare and Irene Berry--both librarians at McHenry Library at UCSC--captures a visual history of this quintessential California resort town, utilizing more than 200 photographs from the University Library's Special Collections.
Published by Arcadia as part of its Images of America series, Santa Cruz, California, features a variety of rarely seen images that begin in 1860 and end with the tourist trade of the late 20th century. --Scott Rappaport, writing for UCSC