Cupertino Library News

Every book in the library has a call number. A call number is like your address; it tells where the book lives on the shelf. Books written about the same subject have the same call number and live together on the shelf. So who lives in the 001 to 100 neighborhood? Are You Afraid Yet? Do you believe? The begining of the nonfiction collection is . . . more »

The Tudor Secret ”There is always a secret to uncover behind the portrait, a mystery to explore within the legend, a hidden motivation under the fact. I write historical fiction for the same reason that I read it: because I crave the emotion of the past.” C. W. Gortner Cupertino Library is pleased to welcome historical novelist C. W. Gortner to the Cupertino Community Hall . . . more »

Cupertino Cinema Club will be on Thursday, April 11 at 4 p.m. in the Story Room. School-aged children are invited. Call 408.446.1677 x3321 for the free movie title. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Cupertino Library. . . . more »

In keeping with our food theme, Cupertino Library is featuring the Magical Moonshine Theater and their show Cirque du Cafe. It is a table top circus for the whole family, where salt shakers do a trapeze act, a wine bottle and a baguette perform magic, a bread roll rides a pizza cutter unicycle and a banana swallows swords longer than it's body. This is object . . . more »

Hey kids, learn all about bees this Wednesday, April 10th at 4:00pm in the Cupertino Community Hall (next to the Library). School-aged children are invited. . . . more »

Check out CDs from the library and get amped up for Coachella this year. It's Blitz Yeah Yeah Yeahs No One's First, and You're next Modest Mouse Feedback Jurassic-5 Grinderman 2 Grinderman Synthetica Metric Bloom Beach House Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix Coexist Coexist XX Give up Postal Service I'm with You I'm with You Red Hot Chili Peppers Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Hard times and . . . more »

Saturday, April 13, 1:30 pm. Cupertino Community Hall War clearly takes the greatest toll from and poses the greatest dangers to the soldiers who do the fighting. For a soldier’s family however, there is a less immediate but very real price paid in terms of anxiety and loneliness during the long separations. Iraq War Vet Brian Castner wrote about his experience of the war . . . more »

Interested in learning about how to grow organic fruits and vegetables? Want to sample tasty treats from Food Trucks? Get ready for spring break this year by learning, exploring, and tasting at Cupertino's Earth Day Festival on April 6th! With over 100 environmental partners offering FREE giveaways, you can bring the whole family! Also, be sure to stop by the Cupertino Library booth! . . . more »

Just the mention of the month of March conjures up thoughts of shamrocks and the color green; but, here at the Cupertino Library, our teen volunteers took March’s green theme to a whole new level. This week the Green Teen Garden Project saw it’s volunteers emphasize their vow to Go Green by creating recycled seed sprouters out of used 2-liter soda bottles. After washing and . . . more »

Ruoxi Chen (陈若曦) is one of the most significant writers in modern Chinese literature. Born in Taiwan, she co-founded 现代文學 （Modern Literature) , a bi-montly literary magazine when she was still a student in National Taiwan University. 白先勇 and 王文興 are also among the founding writers. After graduation, she came to U.S. and earned MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Perhaps the most drastic . . . more »