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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. _______________________________________________________ … Continue reading Book Club Corner: March Recommendations
~post by Sutterfield I love food, I love books. I love books about food (and food in the shape of books?). My kitchen has become a small temple, where I light little fires and watch the raw earth become food for those I love. Bread and soup and beets. I love to cook. 'Course, it … Continue reading Sutter’s Kitchen: AN EVERLASTING MEAL
~post by Joe T. "It's the same old song, but with a different meaning."- The Four Tops "It's different every time."- King Mob It’s March and I’m watching and obsessing over the HBO series True Detective whilst attempting to reduce the most important books in my life down to five for inclusion in BookPeople’s … Continue reading Time Is A Flat Circle: True Detective & The Invisibles
Click Here: LA Times Book Festival added links to IndieBound to the festival's website. “It’s good to know that SCIBA members are now considered on the same page, literally, with Amazon,” said executive director Andrea Vuleta. “We want to make sure that consumers have the choice to buy locally."#Win: Awards this week: George Saunders won the … Continue reading Book World Buzz
Last year, I read a book that has continued to haunt me. I find myself thinking about it, puzzling over its structure, its twists and turns and endless fascinating layers. It was an unsuspecting novel by Kristopher Jansma, his first, that I picked up one day on a whim and couldn’t put down: The Unchangeable … Continue reading The Writer’s Life & The Intricacies of the Creative Process
The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced at a ceremony filled with folks from all corners of the literary community on March 13th, 2014 at The New School Auditorium in New York. The award ceremony celebrated some of the best and brightest authors and books of 2013. Some of the highlights … Continue reading The National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
We're happy to announce the Statesman Selects pick for March is the beautiful new novel by author Michael Parker, All I Have in This World, a story that sets two strangers up over the hood of a used car in Texas and sets them on the course of a different kind of love story. Pick up the Statesman this … Continue reading Statesman Selects: ALL I HAVE IN THIS WORLD
~ BEN The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone, Michael Smollin "This book is something else. I'm almost done, but Grover has built a brick wall to keep me from finishing. He's gone chicken on me because there's supposed to be a monster at the end of the book. I mean, … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
How Best To Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton Reviewed by Andrew Hilbert Owen Egerton is one of the best writers operating today and, holy cow, he's an Austinite. One of the creators of the Sinus Show and Master Pancake Theater, Owen is known to be a funnyman to most locals. He's also a fine writer. … Continue reading Review: HOW BEST TO AVOID DYING
HARDCOVER FICTION Stone Cold by C. J. Box Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is about a mysterious man living on a massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming, but he discovers a lot more than … Continue reading New Releases – 3/11/14
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