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With the weekend just a little over a day away now it's time to celebrate. What better way is there to celebrate than with a new book. This week we'll be highlighting some YA titles that we have loved and hope you will too. Without further ado here they are! Ta'NECIA Tiger Lily by Jodi … Continue reading Teen Thursday
KATHLEEN The Bookseller by Mark Pryor "Hugo Marston works for the American Embassy in Paris. When booksellers from the book stalls along the Siene, the first of which a personal friend of his, start to disappear he turns to the Paris police. They're reluctance to help and having no time to loose Hugo seeks assistance … Continue reading What We’re Reading
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"Louisa Hall deftly explores the notions of romantic and familial regret in her debut novel, “The Carriage House.” And it’s already getting plenty of attention. Oprah has selected it as one of the top reads in March for her influential book club. Hall probably attracted Oprah’s attention — and will probably attract the attention of … Continue reading Statesman Selects Book Review: THE CARRIAGE HOUSE
Happy Tuesday to all! Let's celebrate this week with some books hot off the presses. As always the book's blurbs are provided by their publishers. HARDCOVER FICTION Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear Shattered Pillars is the second book of Bear’s The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to Range of Ghosts. Set in a world drawn … Continue reading New Releases
The new book from the fabulous and brilliant Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist, is on our shelves today! Hooray! In celebration of its official arrival, and to get us amped for her visit here on Tuesday, April 16 at 7pm, we present this Q&A Ms. Stewart was kind enough to do with us. And we … Continue reading BookPeople Q&A with Amy Stewart
~post by Steven Good evening and welcome to the Nightmare Factory's elegant exhibition of exsanguination. The time has come to put aside all pretenses of your fading humanity and give in to your savage impulses. That's right! Submit to the uncontrollable desire to slink into BookPeople on a windswept and war-torn Tuesday night for a … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Has a Thirst For Blood
~Post by Meghan G. & the BookKids Staff This week's kids staff meeting was pretty great, taking us into the final rounds of judging for our annual bookmark contest. Winners will be contacted soon, but regardless of whose designs win, our art show of all the designs submitted will be something to see, so make … Continue reading Notes From the Kids Staff
~Post by Marie. Original artwork by Alex Rosental Psychohistory: the science of using mathematics and statistics tempered with sociology and psychology to predict the social outcomes of a large human population. This is the branch of mathematics that Hari Seldon, the first of many protagonists for Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, uses to uncover that … Continue reading Sci Friday: Isaac Asimov’s Foundations
Bookselling This Week has a Q&A up right now with novelist Kent Haruf. His new novel, Benediction, is a must read for lovers of literary fiction. It's also the #1 Indie Next List pick for March. What does that mean? It means that independent booksellers across the country believe in this book, love this book, … Continue reading Q&A with Kent Haruf via BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK
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