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'Tis the season to light up those menorahs, play some dreidle, chow down on some latkes and cozy up with the family for a story time. Here at BookPeople, we're celebrating the holiday with a featured selection of our favorite Hanukkah books for children. Take a look! Beautiful Yetta's Hanukkah Kitten by Daniel Pinkwater, illustrated by Jill … Continue reading Happy Hanukkah from BookPeople!
We were very excited to have hosted George Saunders in our store this past Sunday. He delighted us with his conversation on his new book The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip and has now gifted us his favorite children's book recommendations. Check them out! The Happy Hocky Family by Lane Smith Here is the Hocky family … Continue reading George Saunders Recommends for Kids…
Help a local child celebrate the holidays by donating to our Giving Tree program! Every year, Merrilee hand-cuts dozens of delicate paper snowflakes to decorate our Giving Tree. On the back of each snowflake is the name and age of a child who would like a book for the Holidays, or a request for a specific … Continue reading The Giving Tree is Up!
In no particular order, here are our favorite books of 2015 for young readers ages 7 and up.
Here they are, in no particular order, our top picture books of 2015.
BookPeople is proud to partner with the Austin American-Statesman for their monthly Statesman Selects program. Each month, BookPeople will highlight the Statesman’s top recommended read for Austin. December's pick is The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders. Saunders will join us for a very special storytime Sunday, December 6 at 2PM. Milk, juice and … Continue reading December’s Statesman Selects: THE VERY PERSISTENT GAPPERS OF FRIP by George Saunders
On Saturday, November 28, we celebrated Small Business Saturday and #IndiesFirst with over a dozen Austin authors. They stopped by to support their local indie bookstore and keep us well-stocked with signed copies of their books. We're fortunate to live in a city rich with writers who give us great new books to read all year long. … Continue reading Austin Authors Keep #IndiesFirst!
New in Hardcover The Age of Reinvention: A Novel by Karine Tuil An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian novel of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham. Sam Tahar seems to have it … Continue reading New Books! 12/1/15
We had a fabulous time with our hometown boy Ethan Hawke last Tuesday! He read from his new book, Rules for a Knight, to a packed house, and left us with some homework: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in … Continue reading A Reading List from Ethan Hawke
2015 was an incredible year for books – so incredible, in fact, that it was a huge challenge to compose this very list. But we did the tough work and now here they are, BookPeople’s Best Books of 2015 (in no particular order). We hope that you’ll find a new read for yourself, and some … Continue reading BookPeople’s Top Ten Books of 2015
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