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We're thrilled to announce that Judy Blume, bestselling author of twenty-eight books including Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret, and Summer Sisters, is bringing her new novel for adults, In the Unlikely Event, to BookPeople on Saturday, June 13 at 4pm. Blume is an iconic author, one of our all time favorites, and we … Continue reading Judy Blume Comes to BookPeople in June!
Here are a few short stories, interviews, and reviews, most of which have absolutely nothing to do with love, to read this Valentine's Day weekend!! In We Contain Multitudes, Andrew Rose interviews trans author Thomas Page McBee (Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man) about his female to male transition and how his views … Continue reading weekend reading
At BookPeople, we are often matchmakers between readers and books. We absolutely love this part of our job. In fact, everyone at the store likes doing this so much, that we are setting up readers on blind dates with books for Valentine's Day! All you have to do is tell us a little bit about … Continue reading Sweet books for our sweeties
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! February Buzz Book - Red Queen Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard __________________________________________________ ABOUT THE BOOK: Graceling meets The Selection in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a … Continue reading Teen Thursday – 2/12/15
NEW BOOKS! 2/10/15 HARDCOVER FICTION While The Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier This is a story not about spectacular events; rather, Mortier is concerned with writing about war, history and the past with great empathy and engagement, and with a mixture of melancholy, qualification and resignation. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne … Continue reading New Books! 2/10/15
Samantha Bee's inexplicable neuroses, social misfires, and weird fears could fill a book, so they did. I Know I Am, But What Are You? is an unflinchingly candid cross-section of a Canadian coming-of-age crisscrossed with disturbingly affectionate fetishes for religious iconography, teenage crime sprees, and unlicensed Sailor Moon memorabilia. Destined to be either a comedian … Continue reading I Know I Am, But What Are You?: The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Asks The Important Questions
It's Tuesday night, it's cold, it's raining, and while I know it's ill advised I have no choice but to take my scooter (decked in my stylish rain jacket and not-so-stylish motorcycle helmet) to the Whip In so I can finally experience what all my writer friends keep telling me about. Owen Egerton's One Page … Continue reading One Page Salon – hosted by Owen Egerton
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we are oh-so-happy to announce that we are giving away a pair of tickets to see the one, the only, Mr. John Waters on Monday, February 16th at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater. John Waters Mon, Feb 16th, 2015 ACL at the Moody Theater Tickets Available … Continue reading John Waters Ticket Giveaway
Hello Friends and Fellow Readers who traverse the vast and wondrous seas of the magnificent book multiverse! As ever, we endeavor to bring you the latest in news from said vastness each week, and this week, happily, is no exception: First and foremost in literary news this week, it was announced that after 55 years, a sequel … Continue reading News from the Book Multiverse
HARDCOVER FICTION City of Savages by Lee Kelly After the Red Allies turn New York City into a POW camp, two sisters must decipher the past in order to protect the future in this action-packed thriller with a dual narrative. Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that … Continue reading New Books! 2/03/15
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