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A joyous Tuesday to you all. This week the publishing gods are truly smiling down upon us. There are a whole heap of new releases, and they're some amazing reads! As always the blurbs are provided by the book's publishers. HARDCOVER FICTION NW by Zadie Smith Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic new novel follows four Londoners … Continue reading New Releases
Andrew Porter's literary fiction has appeared in One Story, Epoch, and NPR's Selected Shorts, among other publications. His brilliant collection The Theory of Light and Matter earned the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He's received a Pushcart Prize, attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop - is this not a staggering bio? Porter's first novel, In … Continue reading BookPeople Q&A with Andrew Porter
Every Day by David Levithan "I highly recommend this book – it took the attachment we all feel towards people we love, and tested the limits of it. This book is my favorite book by David Levithan...." - Willa Head on over to the BookPeople Teen Press Corp blog to read Willa's full review and … Continue reading September’s YA Buzz Book Is…..
If you’d like to keep up with all of our BookKids news, subscribe to our monthly BookKids e-newsletter. We also have all of our usual fun & fabulous storytimes happening this month for your very young readers. All storytimes and events are free and open to the public. Join us! _________________________________________________ U P C O M I … Continue reading What’s Happening in BookKids in September
Happy Thursday to all (but especially to you YA lovers). This is the second week in our countdown to the Austin Teen Book Festival. BookPeople is a proud sponsor of the ATBF and we can't wait for it to come. The Austin Teen Book Festival is Saturday, September 29th from 9:30am to 5pm. There will … Continue reading Teen Thursday – Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads
Dress up in the theme or as a character from your favorite Penguin title then upload your pics to our Facebook Page by Friday, September 21 at midnight. The pic with the most "likes" will win a suite of 5 Penguin books (including an unreleased title!) at the Junot Diaz event Tuesday, September 25 at … Continue reading Announcing Our New PENGUIN PICS contest
~post by Joe The fall season in the book industry is always the one to keep your eyes open for. This is the time when the heavy hitters have releases for the holiday season. I’m especially excited this year as there are many long anticipated works on the schedule. These are a few of these … Continue reading Joe’s Fall Books
Top Shelf in September: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Reviewed by Julie “The war tried to kill us in the spring.” From the novel's opening line, I knew The Yellow Birds would be a different reading experience from the nonfiction accounts I've read of the Iraq War. Closer. Harder to stomach, in some ways. … Continue reading THE YELLOW BIRDS: Top Shelf in September
Raul: A Man of Misconceptions by John Glassie "Athanasius Kircher was the premier 17th century philosopher on quite literally everything. He was famous across Europe, and even worked for the Pope deciphering hieroglyphics- which he knew absolutely nothing about. That didn't stop him from writing thousands of pages on their meaning. A Man of Misconceptions follows Kircher's … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson Reviewed by Joe T. William Gibson, for me, was one of those writers who comes along just a few times in a lifetime and completely changes the way you look at the world. I first read Neuromancer back around 1989/1990 when I was a freshman in high school … Continue reading It’s Okay, You Can Trust This Flavor
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