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New in Hardback Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting … Continue reading New Books! 5/12/15
Nemesis Games, the fifth installment in James S. A. Corey's bestselling Enterprise series, hits shelves June 2. We're excited to announce that, thanks to the kindness and cooperation of Orbit Books and Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (the duo writing as Corey), we're now taking pre-orders for signed copies! HOW TO ORDER: Add Nemesis Games to … Continue reading Signed Copies of NEMESIS GAMES Available to Pre-Order!
New in Hardback Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night-soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause … Continue reading New Books! 5/5/15
Bike to Work Day is happening here in Austin Friday, May 15. As a bookstore that boast many cyclists and is next to REI, which is one of the Bike to Work Day fueling stations, we're particularly excited about this community happening. To celebrate, we're highlighting some of our booksellers who bike and offering a … Continue reading Booksellers Who Bike: Salvador
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for our monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, we get together to select one book you absolutely must not miss. May’s Statesman Selects pick is Gutshot: Stories by former Austinite Amelia Gray. Pick up a copy of the Statesman on Sunday, May 3 to read their review. … Continue reading Statesman Selects May 2015: GUTSHOT
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan Review by Meghan G. “Your fate is not yet sealed. Even in the darkest night, a star will shine, a bell will chime, a path will be revealed.” In fairy tales, innocents must often venture into the shadows of the forest armed (if they’re lucky) with some breadcrumbs, a magical … Continue reading Top Shelf in May: ECHO by Pam Muñoz Ryan
New in Hardback Early Warning by Jane Smiley From the Pulitzer Prize-winner, the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America. But Early Warning also stands entirely on its own as an engrossing story of the challenges--and rewards--of … Continue reading New Books! 4/28/15
After the success of the last year's inaugural California Bookstore Day, independent bookstores across the nation will be participating in the First Annual Independent Bookstore Day on May 2nd, and we are thrilled to be one of them! In the words of Independent Bookstore Day Program Director Samantha Schoech, "The entire purpose of Bookstore Day is … Continue reading INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY is May 2nd!
New in Fiction Beauty's Kingdom by Anne Rice Mega-bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, returns to the mysterious kingdom of Queen Eleanor in this new chapter of her Sleeping Beauty series. When the great queen is reported dead, Beauty and Laurent return to the kingdom they left twenty years before. Beauty agrees … Continue reading New Books! 4/21/15
Last week’s Texas Library Association (TLA) conference brought more than librarians to Austin. The conference also brought over 200 hundred authors from around the country to our city, and BookPeople worked with schools, publishers, and publicists to connect them with local students. The week was incredible and the pace non-stop. Students entertained authors just as much … Continue reading 1 Week. 13 Authors. 21 School Events.
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