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On Friday MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan shared a list of his six favorite books with The Week. Read the article to find out why he recommends Americans read them, and then click the covers below to take a look for yourself. Have you read any of them yet? If so, you two will have something … Continue reading Dylan Ratigan Recommends….
You can't get much more vicious for Valentine's Day than with the vampires of Mari Mancusi's Blood Coven Series. The books alternate between twins Sunny and Rayne -- one who always dreamed of becoming a vampire, and her sister who is the one that is accidentally turned into a vampire instead. However, I don't want … Continue reading My Vicious Valentine: Mari Mancusi
The deadline to sign up as a Giver on World Book Night has been extended! You can now sign up through February 6th. A debut novel by thirty year old Anton DiSclafani went for seven figures to Riverhead this week. Keep an eye out for The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, which is garnering comparisons … Continue reading As the Book World Turns
Austin, get your coozies ready. Lüc Carl, the NYC bar manager & DJ (and pro-bowler, personal trainer, long distance runner and now author) in the snake skin pants will be here at BookPeople on Thursday, March 22nd, 7p to speak & sign his new book, The Drunk Diet: How I Lost 40 Pounds...Wasted. Just in … Continue reading LÜC CARL Comes to BookPeople
Book: Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III (now in paperback) Reviewed by: Nolan Are men made or born? Are they products of the mill towns and poor single parents and the druggie teenage bullies who threaten their fragile existence? Or is it all merely an obstacle? A means for the man to blossom to … Continue reading How a Fire Starts: A Review of ‘Townie’
It's no secret that bookstores often get advanced copies of books from publishers. We get them so our buyers know what books to order, so that the booksellers can recommend them, and so I can give them to our teens to review. However, I often read copies of the books too, and sometimes provide blurbs … Continue reading My Vicious Valentine: LA Weatherly
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, get out those pens you just used to ink Michael Ian Black on your calendars and write this down: actor and comedian Kevin Smith will be here at BookPeople on Thursday, April 5th, 7p, to sign his new book, Tough Sh*t. More info to come. For now, be sure … Continue reading Kevin Smith Comes to BookPeople
Book: All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps by Dave Isay Reviewed by: Julie W. I'm a sucker for a good love story. I cry at weddings. I fill up my Netflix queue with romantic comedies. Give me a tale of two souls struggling to find one another in the chaos of human existence and … Continue reading Book Review: ‘All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps’
Next Friday (Feb. 10), we'll be celebrating Valentine's Day a little different this year. Instead of loving cupids on the fourteenth, we're going to have vampires, evil angels, and of course, love-torn couples on the tenth. Six of our favorite local paranormal YA authors will be coming together to discuss their rather darker vision of … Continue reading My Vicious Valentine
~Post by Robyn I was a huge reader growing up. You know, the kind of kid in junior high who was reading Dickens and Crichton for fun. Then I graduated high school and something changed. I quit reading for pleasure. Ten years later I can look back and think of all the excuses I probably … Continue reading Why I’m Giving on World Book Night
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