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When: August 20 @ 2PM Where: BookPeople All right, so technically there won't be dancing or a band playing, but we are going to celebrate Western-style this Saturday. Jill S. Alexander is having the release party for her latest book, Paradise, and we're going to throw her a Texas sized shindig here at BookPeople. There … Continue reading An Old-Fashioned Hoe-Down (BookPeople Style)
Our teen interns, teen reviewers, and teen book club members have been busy this summer reading up a storm. Here's a few of the books they are recommending: Erin, age 13: The Last Little Blue Envelope By Maureen Johnosn "If you are looking for a good summer read, look no further, and enjoy Thirteen Little … Continue reading What Our Teens Are Reading
Here at BookPeople we are some of the undisputed champions of the weird. Where else did you use to be able to find magnets of Leslie in holiday finery? Who else would turn the third floor into an Egyptian temple for one of their literary camps? And who would throw a "Keep Austen Weird" Prom … Continue reading A Sassy and Serendipitous Keep Austen Weird Prom
At the end of June, John Green announced that every copy of his new book, The Fault in Our Stars, that is preordered between now and the book's release in May of 2012 will be personally hand-signed. To see John discuss this monumental opportunity, see below: This is going to be an awful lot of … Continue reading John Green Has a Hand of Steel
We've been busy over in the teen section this past week working on putting together the finishing touches to our new teen website -- something I encourage you to check out. You can get to it from BookPeople.com, or you can click here. There's a bunch of cool stuff you can do from this site: … Continue reading Teen Reviewers, Teen Interns, & Teen Book Club, Oh My!
Tonight the Dark Days of the Supernatural Teen Book Tour hits town, and I for one, cannot wait to meet all of the great authors that are coming. Included on the panel are Veronica Roth (we reviewed Divergent last week), Ellen Schreiber, Aprilynne Pike, Tara Hudson, and Amy Plum. The authors will be speaking on … Continue reading Teen Review: Die For Me
Tomorrow the Dark Days of Supernatural tour will descend on BookPeople at 7 PM bringing their paranormal, dystopic, and romantic visions to the store. Last week our teens told you about Divergent and tomorrow they'll discus Die For Me, but today I thought I'd take the opportunity to tell you about the authors themselves. Introducing … Continue reading Dark Days Ahead
Next week on Thursday, June 9, the Dark Days of the Supernatural Teen Tour will be joining us here in Austin. (For more information on the event, click here.) One of the authors that will be speaking and signing that night is Veronica Roth whose new book Divergent has been getting all sorts of buzz. … Continue reading Teen Review: Divergent
I love short stories. I love having a complete plot arc that I can read in one short sitting. One of my favorite types of books is the anthology. And as Julie has mentioned before, this is National Short Story Month. So, for this Teen Thursday I thought we could give away five teen short … Continue reading Teen Short Story Drawing
Have you ever read a new series and been annoyed that it takes a year for each of the new books to come out? I know I have. Well, apparently the folks over at Dial (an imprint of Penguin) have also felt this way. They are putting out Catherine Fisher's entire new Relic Masters Series … Continue reading Teen Review: The Relic Master
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