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We're very, VERY excited to announce that we will host the one and only Felicia Day, actress, internet celebrity and all around awesome human, here at BookPeople on Saturday, August 15 at 6PM. Day will be here to sign copies of her new book, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). Just who is Felicia Day? Thanks … Continue reading Felicia Day Is Coming to BookPeople!
We are thrilled to have Richard Paul and Steven Moss in our store Wednesday, July 1 at 7PM to discuss We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program. Just as the civil rights movement was lifting off, so was the American Space Age. While their ambitions were beginning to reach far … Continue reading Civil Rights in the Space Age: Richard Paul and Steven Moss Come to BookPeople
We're excited to announce our fourth Trust Fall pick: The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler! Trust Fall subscribers will receive a signed, first edition of this new novel, along with a second surprise book and a few extra goodies. Packages will ship mid-July. Trust Fall is a program designed to highlight must-read debut or break … Continue reading Announcing Trust Fall Pick #4!
Falling in love is a mind-bending experience. All at once, your future opens before you in a sherbet-tinged horizon of everlasting bliss. Every question in this long, wandering life finds its answer in the miracle face that is suddenly smiling at you in the morning, delivering coffee, staring deep into your eyes because yes, it’s … Continue reading Top Shelf in July: The Hand That Feeds You by A. J. Rich
New in Hardcover Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola (In our store this Friday, 6/26! 7PM) "It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your … Continue reading New Books! 6/23/15
We're honored to announce that BookPeople will once again welcome President Jimmy Carter to our store, this time to sign his new book, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. President Carter will be here Saturday, August 1 at 2:30pm. Tickets now available via bookpeople.com. EVENT GUIDELINES This event is a SIGNING only. Tickets are required to join … Continue reading President Jimmy Carter Returns to BookPeople!
I’m an August baby born into a family of Lit majors—Summer is my favorite season and you can’t tear a book out of my hands. Favorite summer activities include: reading, eating popsicles, soaking up the sun, and swimming anywhere and everywhere. When I was a kid I had to read 25 books each summer for … Continue reading Althea’s Summer Reads
Demi is the BookKids Marketing and Merchandising Manager. She likes to go to conventions like HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC and dress up like Jennifer Walters. SHE-HULK SMASH! San Diego Comic Con starts July 9th, and although I can’t go myself, here’s a run-down of who you should see and what you should read before you … Continue reading It’s Con Time!: Summer Reading for the Comic Convention Season
The post comes from Rachel S. Meyer, assistant director of the South Asia Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. She has facilitated a pen pal program between students at Zilker Elementary and a primary school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. We're honored to have provided books for the program to help students from each country learn more … Continue reading From Austin to Pakistan, Pen Pals Exchange Both Letters and Books
Hardcover New Releases Paradise Sky by Joe Lansdale Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat … Continue reading New Books! 6/16/15
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