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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
Welcome to our Book Club Corner, where each month we highlight books new to paperback we think would make perfect picks for your next book club discussion. If you’re looking to join a book club, we host a wide variety of free, bookseller-run book clubs right here at BookPeople. Join us! We love to talk books. Featured … Continue reading Book Club Corner Picks – December
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
Kirsten Bakis' The Thief, is a beautifully written short story that transcends the bleak reality it represents. It lends a mesmerizing hope to an otherwise hopeless condition. Set in 1910 New York City, Sally, a maid for the wealthy Whittinger family, is fixated on a particular vase the family owns.She knows possession of the vase … Continue reading weekend reading
This Tuesday, November 24, Ethan Hawke will join us here at BookPeople to speak about and sign his new book, Rules For a Knight. This is a significant event not only because we adore Ethan, but because he is OUR HOMETOWN BOY - even if he isn't always so sure about it. "Well Austin has a lot … Continue reading Welcome Home, Ethan Hawke!
Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic Bats! Texas! Overlapping genres! Parallel timelines! Archival records! Full disclosure: I am an archivist who is a former graphic designer--who also has a weak spot for misunderstood animals. If there is any book that is written … Continue reading Deep in the Infinite Image: The New & Noteworthy Book Club Discusses Bats of the Republic
Congratulations to the winners of this year's National Book Awards, which were announced last night in New York City. Learn more about the finalists and see footage from the award ceremony on the National Book Foundation's website. NONFICTION Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates FICTION Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson POETRY Voyage of … Continue reading 2015 National Book Award Winners Announced
Catify to Satisfy: Simple Solutions for Creating a Cat-Friendly Home by Jackson Galaxy (speaking & signing at BookPeople this Friday, 11/20!) Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet’s hit show My Cat from Hell, and Kate Benjamin, cat design wizard, show cat guardians everywhere how to use home design tricks to address everyday cat care issues. … Continue reading New Books! 11/17/15
Who would have thought that a six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia would have started one of the best "fringe" western swing bands of its time, and still keep comin' right at ya! More than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later, Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world, led by … Continue reading Ray Benson is Comin’ Right at Ya!
The lights in your train car flicker as the subway changes tracks, making an unexpected detour through forgotten caverns deep below the city. Pale eyes shine back at you through fogged and graffiti-scarred windows as you try to make sense of your surroundings. Gaining speed, your train plummets past abandoned stations, illegible insignia scrawled in … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Book Club Has Touched The Rail That Is The Lesser Dead!
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