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We returned to the House of Night on Monday with P.C. and Kristin Cast! P.C. Cast tweeted this awesome photo of our amazing Bookpeeps hugging their copies of Loved!

 

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6 Young Adult Book Recommendations if You Like These Popular TV Shows

It’s ComicCon time this week in San Diego! That means lots of new trailers are releasing and the internet is all atwitter about the latest TV/Movies coming our way soon. Adaptations of teen literature are super popular these days, but what if you’ve already read those media tie-in series? How do you decide what to pick up next you might like?

We have the perfect solution for you! This is a list of currently trending TV shows and recommendations with similar themes or tone from BookPeople booksellers who love YA literature just as much as you!

Follow the link to check out the awesome suggestions from BookGirl!

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The Last Magician 

Lisa Maxwell

 

From Unhooked author Lisa Maxwell comes a captivating new world filled with magic and deception, about a girl who must travel back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future.Stop the Magician.
Steal the book.
Save the future.In modern day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic–the Mageus–live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power–and often their lives.Esta is a talented thief, and she’s been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Esta’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order–and the Brink–before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.

 

 

The Library of Fates

Aditi Khorana

 

A romantic coming-of-age fantasy tale steeped in Indian folklore, perfect for fans of The Star-Touched Queen and The Wrath and the Dawn“

Aditi Khorana has whipped up the perfect book recipe: a rogue princess, a freed oracle, and a library with the power to change your fate “ —Justine Magazine

No one is entirely certain what brings the Emperor Sikander to Shalingar. Until now, the idyllic kingdom has been immune to his many violent conquests. To keep the visit friendly, Princess Amrita has offered herself as his bride, sacrificing everything–family, her childhood love, and her freedom–to save her people. But her offer isn’t enough.The palace is soon under siege, and Amrita finds herself a fugitive, utterly alone but for an oracle named Thala, who was kept by Sikander as a slave and managed to escape amid the chaos. With nothing and no one else to turn to, Amrita and Thala are forced to rely on one another. But while Amrita feels responsible for her kingdom and sets out to warn her people, the newly free Thala has no such ties. She encourages Amrita to go on a quest to find the fabled Library of All Things, where it is possible for each of them to reverse their fates. To go back to before Sikander took everything from them.Stripped of all that she loves, caught between her rosy past and an unknown future, will Amrita be able to restore what was lost, or does another life–and another love–await?

 

 

What Goes Up

Katie Kennedy

 

Rosa and Eddie are among hundreds of teens applying to NASA’s mysterious Interworlds Agency. They’re not exactly sure what the top-secret program entails, but they know they want in. Rosa has her brilliant parents’ legacies to live up to, and Eddie has nowhere else to go–he’s certainly not going to stick around and wait for his violent father to get out of jail. Even if they are selected, they have no idea what lies in store. But first they have to make it through round after round of crazy-competitive testing.

And then something happens that even NASA’s scientists couldn’t predict . . .

From the author of the acclaimed Learning to Swear in America comes another high-stakes adventure that’s absolutely out of this world.

 

COMING SOON TO THE BOOKPEOPLE NEAR YOU!!!

Aug 5, 2017

11:30 am

We’re celebrating the first ever Texas Independent Bookstore Day! 

This is a THANK YOU for you, our customers, for shopping with us all year round, and we’ll have some activities, prizes, and giveaways.

Things kick off with storytime at 11:30am, a summer reading wrap up party featuring BookSpring and Austin Allies, and continue into the afternoon!

We’ll have a scavenger hunt throughout the store, customer-favorite “Book Pong,” and a contest to guess how many books are on our shelves.

Plus, what’s a party without some cake!