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BookFriends, we hope you made it out to the Texas Book Festival this past weekend. Over two days we got to host and interact with some of our very favorite writers (Rainbow Rowell, John Grisham, Malcolm Gladwell, Kristen Arnett, Lara Prescott, Jasmine Guillory, Bryan Washington, Fernando A. Flores, and more!) and now we're having to … Continue reading New Releases to Help Ease the Post-TBF Blues
"[Call Me By Your Name], full of youth and passion and honor, is a brief glimpse into one summer; Find Me instead is a meandering journey for a spiritual home." After the devastatingly beautiful dive into first love that was Call Me By Your Name, your friendly neighborhood booksellers were both anticipatory and apprehensive to return … Continue reading Rachel R. Reviews Aciman’s FIND ME!
October's coming to close real soon, but we've still got plenty of exciting titles for you to browse before we head into a week of exciting events and cap it all off with a spectacular weekend of books, books, books at The Texas Book Festival in and around the State Capitol here in Austin, TX! … Continue reading New Releases for 10/22 Comin’ In Hot!
This week's lineup of new releases is chock full of titles we've been waiting to share with you. Nearly every title featured here will be part of an in-store presentation or by an author that'll be gracing the Texas Book Festival grounds later this month. Read up on these reads that'll be creating a buzz … Continue reading The New Releases Don’t Stop Coming!
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo is the fall blockbuster title to read… It’s that magical time of year again when the weather actually does seem to finally be changing here in Austin and we’re looking to curl up with a page-turner that will keep us up at night. Your BookPeople booksellers were graciously sent an […]
Friends, you made it back! This week we've got a ton of new titles we think you're just going to eat up. Below this caption we've got one of the season's most buzzed about books (Hi, Leigh Bardugo), and further down we've got plenty of bookseller favorites that'll help you in a pinch when you … Continue reading Tuesday = New Books, New Books, New Books!
Last month we had the pleasure of hosting podcaster, meditation teacher, audio engineer and author Cory Allen for his brand new book, Now Is the Way. This will be familiar territory for avid listeners of The Astral Hustle podcast and his wildly popular online meditation course, Release Into Now, but we invite our listeners to plug in and enjoy … Continue reading The BookPeople Podcast with Cory Allen
October's here, BookFriends, can you believe it? It's one of the busiest times at BookPeople, what with the Texas Teen Book Festival and Texas Book Festival happening in the same month (wow!), but we've always got time to talk about new books. This week we've got our plates full with a couple of stellar reads … Continue reading Spooky Season’s Here…With More New Releases
Earlier this month we had the pleasure of hosting Lara Prescott, Austin author and Michener Center gradute, with her debut novel, The Secrets We Kept. It spins a yarn of secretaries turned spies and the covert CIA operation to undermine the Soviet regime using one of the greatest love stories of all time, Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. … Continue reading The BookPeople Podcast with Lara Prescott!
It's officially Fall and that means that the season of new books is about to turn up to 11. Everywhere we look we're faced with another new title that we might just drop everything to read. Whether it's Rainbow Rowell's continuing adventures of Simon Snow in Wayward Son, Ta-Nehisi Coates' dive into fiction with The Water Dancer, or Chanel … Continue reading Tuesday’s New Titles, READ ALL ABOUT IT!
