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In case you needed another reason to stay inside, our new releases this week have us booking hours-long reading dates after we close up for the night. Boisterous histories, revelatory discoveries and a pair of eye-opening debuts. Scroll down for more info on the books turning heads in this final month of 2020. Bag Man: … Continue reading Chilly Temps, Stellar Reads to Cozy Up With
Inventory Manager Molly joins us on the blog to make one very big reading recommendation for your long nights at home this winter...even if you're not the biggest sci-fi reader. A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year two thousand and twenty. In this time the most precious substance … Continue reading Spice Up Your Life: The Time Has Finally Come for You to Read ‘Dune’
The long year is (finally!) coming to a close and the New Release Tuesday's in 2020 are dwindling, but that doesn't mean we can't still get hyped about new books. After all, new books have been keeping us going through most of this. Scroll down for a read or two to prop you up, or … Continue reading The Final New Releases of 2020!
It's beginning to feel a lot like...the holidays. And whether that's giving you cause for joy or a little anxiety, we've got books to take your mind off of it on this new release Tuesday. From highly-anticipated sequels to classics with a new kick, the waning days of 2020 still have some surprises left for … Continue reading THANKful for New Books!
We won't beat around the bush. It's one of the most exciting New Release Tuesdays of the year so far... You can now find the massive, Barack Obama-penned doorstop memoir, A Promised Land, on our shelves today. It's been the talk of the book world for a few months now and we're ready for the rush—Get … Continue reading The Most Exciting New Release Tuesday Yet! See What’s Got Us Hyped…
The BookPeople holiday catalog—our annual year-in-review publication—is here and, like most things in 2020, it's gone virtual for the occasion! And while you can't hold a physical copy this season, there's still plenty to enjoy about it! This year's theme, This Is My Favorite Book...of the Pandemic highlights the titles our booksellers found comfort in during a … Continue reading Holiday Bookseller Features: MK!
If you're still taking that seemingly endless sigh of relief after the events of the last week, we totally understand. We're in the same boat and are here to service you with some bookish joy to top it off. We're still a week away from the A Promised Land debut, but there's still plenty to celebrate: signed … Continue reading New Book November—New Releases This Week Are *FIRE*
First things first: have you voted yet? Austin and Texas voters, get all the crucial last minute info you need here. Readers from outside of Texas, find your polling place, see what's on the ballot, and more on this page. As much as we love votes, everyone here at BookPeople wants you to get out and make … Continue reading VOTE! And Then Check Out our New Releases!
Last night we had the great pleasure of hosting Bryan Washington for a pub-week celebration of his debut novel, Memorial—a profoundly sensitive story about the rough boundaries of love in a multicultural society (Ron Charles, The Washington Post). The first novel by the author of bookseller favorite, Lot, is already drawing rave reviews from The New York Times Book … Continue reading Bryan Washington Brings the ‘Memorial’ Virtual Book Tour to BookPeople: A Recap
It's not all blood curdling screams around the bookstore this time of year. That is, unless one of our most anticipated reads makes it to the store in its final form. In which case, it's been nothing but blood curdling screams at the moment (haha). Bookseller favorites Bryan Washington and Martin Amis are hitting the shelves in … Continue reading Less Than Frightening New Releases
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