Our Community Reads: Another Successful Season

Hello dear friends of Our Community Reads!

The 2024 Season of Our Community Reads, our most successful to date, has come to a close.

We thank all of you members of the community who attended, as well as the sponsors who contributed resources to bring you such a variety of interesting, thought provoking, and entertaining events. To share your comments or suggestions, please click this link and complete a very short survey.

We’ve enjoyed collaborating with the Friends of the Libraries of Aptos, Capitola, La Selva Beach, Felton, and Scotts Valley to bring you a variety of events based on the book The Monk of Mokha, by Dave Eggers.

If you are interested in joining our planning group, or wish to participate in the Voting Party to select the book for the 2025 Season, please contact us at: friendsoftheaptoslibrary@fscpl.org

Meantime, stay up to date with Our Community Reads! And, do show us your support for the continued success of this program where all events are free and open to the public.

Donate here to support Our Community Reads and keep it vibrant in the future! We are a 501 (c) 3 non-profit and all donations are tax deductible.

Thank you for being a supporter of Our Community Reads and of the Santa Cruz County Public Libraries.

We hope that you will join us again for our next season!

— Friends of the Capitola Branch Library •  Friends of the Scotts Valley Library • Felton Library Friends

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Monk of Mokha Book Cover Winners

As part of the 2024 Our Community Reads, co-sponsored by the Friends of the Aptos Library, students in Graphic Design classes redesigned the book cover of The Monk of Mokha and entered their creations in a competition judged by staff from Bookshop Santa Cruz.

Aptos High School Winners (left to right)

1. Rose Lockwood
2. Anais Gonzalez-Paredes
3. Colby Saunders

Students at Scotts Valley High also competed.

For a slideshow of the book cover entries, got to www.friendsofaptoslibrary.org/art-exhibit-2024.html