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When your luck runs out on the midway, and the tilt-a-whirl has wrenched the last of the funnel cake from your heaving gullet, take a swallow of courage from your hip flask and wander back to the darkest part of the carnival where you're not likely to see anyone you know, to be recognized, to … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Reads THE RIB FROM WHICH I REMAKE THE WORLD
Susan Dennard - Windwitch Check out the sequel to TRUTHWITCH! We had the great pleasure of hosting Dennard this weekend with Alexandra Bracken, and boy, was it wonderful! Pick up your signed copy of this electrifying series today. Katharine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale A fiery and strong-willed heroine, immersion in a supernatural world of … Continue reading New Books 1/10!
Ottessa Moshfegh will be bringing her new collection of short stories to BookPeople on January 31st at 7 PM. Ms. Moshfegh has too many accolades to go into here. Take a gander at her wikipedia page for the particulars: Wiki-Ottessa. She's from Boston, her mom is from Croatia, her dad is from Iran; she is a badass, … Continue reading Ottessa Moshfegh Brings the Warmth with “Homesick for Another World”
One of the many - and possibly the best - perks of working in an independent bookstore is having access to the most talked-about books before they're released! And even though this list could easily be twice as long (we're all fairly voracious readers) here are some titles that we're looking forward to for the first half … Continue reading Our Favorite Upcoming Books!
I’ve had the privilege of hosting BookPeople’s Required Reading Revisited book club since October 2013, when we read Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Since then I’ve read 38 more titles with this group, trying to keep a variety of fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary. Some books I was reading for the very first time, … Continue reading Bon Voyage, Required Reading Revisited!
Douglas Preston - Lost City of the Monkey God Raul, voracious reader and first floor inventory manager thoroughly enjoyed THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, Douglas Preston's new book about a real "lost city" hidden in the depths of the La Mostquita Jungle in Honduras. He says "the initial discovery and exploration that took place … Continue reading New Books 1/3!
This is the book I was waiting for all year in 2016. When it showed up early, a week before Christmas, it felt like a bookselling miracle. If you didn’t hear about it then, read it now to kick off 2017. Roxane Gay is the perfect writer to capture all of the emotions of … Continue reading January Top Shelf – Difficult Women
Every month, our staff chooses one Employee of the Month to recognize for their outstanding work at the store. We thought we'd start sharing these questionnaires that are put on a display in the store with all of you so you can get to better know our booksellers. This month we recognized Melissa Lojo, a … Continue reading Employee of the Month – Lojo!
Let's face it: 2016 sucked. You can literally don a blindfold and throw a dart at a yearly calendar, then pick your tragedy from any month you hit. But people kept being people, and amazing minds kept sharing their incredible stories of resilience. As for me, I kept reading, and reading kept me sane. Now … Continue reading Last Minute Gifts for Your Angry Intersectional Feminist (from 2016)
It's finally that magical time of the year when we in the greater literary community can turn the furnace up and let our guard down. Have some nog. Have a bunch. Marvel at the miracle that is universal, human compassion. Rejoice in the stability of a world where everything is protected by booby traps - … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Book Club – Death Thing
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