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In the most shocking news of the week, illusionist David Copperfield tells the truth about Harry Potter. Say it ain't so, Harry, say it ain't so! Last week, Republic High School in Missouri banned Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse Five from its libraries. This week, the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library has offered free copies of the banned book … Continue reading As the Book World Turns…..
MysteryPeople Pick for August: Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories by Frank Bill Frank Bill has been building quite a buzz around him. His rough and tumble stories have been published in some of the best online crime zines like Beat To A Pulp and Crime Factory and he has been praised by the likes of … Continue reading MysteryPeople Pick of the Month: ‘Crimes in Southern Indiana’
~Post by Brian C. This is the latest in a series of reviews of experimental fiction written by BookPeople Brian C. and Jenn S. Brian and Jenn have made it their mission this summer to open up their reading lives to the weird, the odd, the curious, the avant garde, and the totally out-there in … Continue reading Call Her Crazy, Call Her Avante-Garde, Call Her Kathy Acker, Part of Our Experimental Summer
Publisher Harper Perennial is currently running a sale on 20 of their eBook titles - for the month of August, these 20 eBooks are 99¢ each. Yowza! You can buy these (and ANY eBook) via our website, http://www.bookpeople.com. So you can get your crazy futuristic electronic books and still support your favorite brick & mortar … Continue reading SALE! 99¢ ebooks from Harper Perennial
~Post by MysteryPeople Crime Fiction Coordinator Scott Montgomery MysteryPeople will welcome CJ Box to BookPeople Friday, August 5, 7p For years CJ Box has delivered one engaging read after another with his put-upon game warden Joe Pickett. His consistency had many of us taking him for granted. That ended when his first stand-alone, Blue … Continue reading CJ Box Comes to MysteryPeople With a Unique New Thriller
By Robyn, Assistant Buyer I, like many of you, haven’t had to use a physical road map in several years. Even before my handy smart phone, I was printing out the turns and exits from Mapquest so I could drive directly to my destination without having to think. I mean, come on, maps are big, … Continue reading My Long Lost Friend: the Road Map
Here's what's brand new as of today. Blurbs, as usual, provided by the publishers, with the exception of Back of Beyond. HARDCOVER FICTION Back of Beyond by CJ Box CJ Box is the foremost practitioner of the western thriller. In Back Of Beyond, he uses Yellowstone as a hunting ground for a very flawed … Continue reading New Releases
___________________________________________ Tommy A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. "I'm just finishing A Dance with Dragons and about to start reading Ready Player One, which I've really been looking forward to getting into. A Dance with Dragons is the exposition we've been waiting years to get. It fills in the holes left by … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
USA Today had an article this week asking if The Night Circus, the debut novel by Erin Morgenstern that comes out this fall and that booksellers nationwide (including us) are raving about, is the next Harry Potter. It includes the book's trailer. (We spoke to the Wall Street Journal this week about our event with … Continue reading As the Book World Turns….
We've been running into Origami Yoda all over town this week, how about you? If you've seen him, send us a picture! Maybe you've seen him in origami form, or on the cover of your copy of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, or maybe you've seen him in his Keep Austin Weird t-shirt. Whatever … Continue reading Where Have You Seen Origami Yoda?
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