Beth was Luis's high school sweetheart, and managed the Book Café.

When the show began, her family (father, mother, older brother) had once owned the Book Café, but had sold it to the Cranes to pay for her mother's hospital bills.

She recently quit college and her job at the Book Cafe for a more exciting job, as a cop.

Tonight at 7:30, Housing Works Used Book Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, SoHo, (212)334-3324, $25.

At Adrian's Book Cafe, 714 South Broadway, break for cake or biscotti upstairs and check out the used books.

C Map The Mannenburg Jazz Club, right next door to the Book Café, has live performances every night except Sunday.

The Book Café is a platform for free cultural expression in Harare, Zimbabwe, since1993.

On January 1, 2012, the Book Café had to close its doors by order of the pension fund Old Mutual Property Investments that cancelled the lease.

Pamberi Trust, the initiator of the Book Café, was forced tot close the doors of the Mannenberg Jazz Club as well for the same reason.

Afterward, there will be a late supper at the Housing Works Used Book Cafe, 128 Crosby Street (Houston Street).