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The City in the Middle of the Night By Charlie Jane Anders: Nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the … Continue reading New Releases 2/12
NEW IN FICTION The Care & Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls By Anissa Gray: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. Christina said "I LOVED this book. Anissa Gray joins the ranks … Continue reading New and Noteworthy Reads in February
BookPeople has a new podcast up featuring one of our favorite local authors. Amy Gentry was back in the store just a few weeks ago with her newest novel, Last Woman Standing. In this new thriller, Dana Diaz is an aspiring stand-up comedian—a woman in a man’s world. When she meets a tough computer programmer … Continue reading New Podcast with Amy Gentry
Black Leopard, Red Wolf By Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf has taken the literary world by storm. Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and … Continue reading New Releases 2/5
We've just posted a new podcast on the new BookPeople podcast. Christopher Kimball was one of our favorite authors to visit last Fall. We were drooling over all the yummy recipes in his newest book Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers that Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast. Christopher Kimball's Milk Street is located … Continue reading New Podcast: Christopher Kimball
By Christine Havens The ATXSciRead book group is off to a great start after our first meeting in September. We had 18 people come to BookPeople’s third-floor meeting room for a lively discussion of David Quammen’s The Tangled Tree, which presents a different way of looking at a model of “the tree of life,” most … Continue reading Something for Everyone: The ATXSciRead Book Group
The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads By Brian Salmon & Kirsten Brunner: In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon’s Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book … Continue reading New Releases 1/29
Love BookPeople? Love books? Come work with us! We are hiring for a Bookfair Logistics and Delivery Position and for an Event Staff position. If you're interested in taking on some hours for each position we're happy to consider combining them as well. Please see below for job descriptions: Job Title: BOOKFAIR LOGISTICS AND … Continue reading HIRING: Bookfair Logistics Coordinator & Event Staff
Yes, I said that. February—that month of celebrating love—also means cold temperatures and the slog of life. It is a blessing Valentine’s Day is in the middle of it because otherwise, we would all perish of boredom. It is too cold to go outside. We are too broke to go skiing. The novelty of winter … Continue reading The Romance Shelves: Because February is boring
The Weight of a Piano By Chris Cander: For fans of Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist comes a tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse. This novel dives deep into the challenges … Continue reading New Releases 1/22
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