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It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! We're bringing you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps Blog! Don't forget to check out the blog for new reviews, event reports, and other teen news! Upcoming Events at BookPeople Marie Lu & Margaret Stohl signing The Midnight Star and Black Widow: … Continue reading Teen Thursday (10/13/16)
Margaret Atwood - Hag-Seed The fourth installment in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, Hag-Seed is Margaret Atwood’s retelling of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Enchantment, retribution and second chances are brought to life in a “play within a play” in the form of an exiled Director who, having once dazzled has now fallen from grace due to an … Continue reading New Books 10/11!
Replica by Lauren Oliver “Replica reads like an episode of Orphan Black: there are clones, and love stories, and loss, and the story changes depending on perspective. I loved the two storylines! There’s something very satisfying in finishing the narrative from one side and being able to flip it to the other side for a … Continue reading Top Shelf in October: The World of YA
ICYMI, Bryan Cranston has a new memoir out today! Stephen, one of our managers, is a huge Cranston fan and read & reviewed it. Check out his thoughts, and get a ticket to see Cranston in Austin on October 20th! Bryan Cranston's memoir A Life In Parts explores the path of an artist traveling between … Continue reading Bryan Cranston’s book is here!
Each month I'll be investigating events around town that might pique the interest of the book nerds, the literature obsessed, and those who enjoy stimulating entertainment and/or socializing. Not surprisingly, Austin has a number of things going on every month the Book People community would enjoy. Yes, I know. This was supposed to be up by the … Continue reading Austin Events for the Literati – October
BOSCO Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose "Undaunted Courage has been on my list for a long time; it took me a while to get to it, but I decided to pick it up before the movie came out. I'm glad I did; it's one … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Cinnamon is the story of an Indian princess who is blind and does not talk, her mother, father, great-aunt, a parrot, and... a tiger. I received the manuscript for Cinnamon around the same time I found out I was going to have a baby. It seemed like such a wonderful project and I thought, what a special way … Continue reading Cinnamon Cover Reveal! New Neil Gaiman book with illustrations by local author Divya Srinivasan!
The BookPeople Modern First Library Initiative: Pairing beloved picture books that will never go out of style along with other favorites that reflect the diverse, global society of the 21st century, we’ve set out to make building a thoughtful library for any child in your life easy. Joining us this afternoon is Kekla Magoon, author of X: A Novel … Continue reading Modern First Library: Books the World Needs by Kekla Magoon
Adam Johnson – Fortune Smiles: Stories Now in paperback! "Johnson’s stories invade your soul with the power of an electrical current – sharp and painful with a resonate effect that tingles your every pore. The voices of his characters come from different walks of life: a former warden of a Stasi prison who troubles a tour group … Continue reading New Books 10/4!
Alexey Pajitnov - Russian video game designer and inventor of Tetris Tetris - a tile-matching puzzle game, named #2 in 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time by IGN in 2007. Box Brown - American cartoonist, and author/illustrator of Tetris: The Games People Play Tetris has a bit of a legendary status in the video game … Continue reading Tetris:The Games People Play by Box Brown
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