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We're all really enjoying Anne Helen Petersen's collection of essays, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, and can't wait to have her here in just a week on July 19th at 7pm. Check out our reviews and come join us! I've enjoyed Anne Helen Petersen's essays on Buzzfeed, so it was great to read this interesting … Continue reading Booksellers recommend: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
DiverseCity Book Club's next meeting is tomorrow, 7/13, at 6:30pm on our third floor. We hope you'll join them! Here's a note from their leader, Charlotte Moore: While I argue technology is killing humanity, I also marvel at how it connects us. Here’s what I mean. The current selection for Austin’s DiverseCity Book Club is … Continue reading DiverseCity Book Club talks WAKING UP WHITE
Tropic of Kansas Christopher Brown The first full-length novel from Austin author Christopher Brown, Tropic of Kansas is the story of an America broken into warring territories by greed and exploitation and walled off as a danger zone. Brother and sister traverse a wasteland where capture means death, searching for each other and a way … Continue reading New Books: 7/11!
Happy book birthday to Gabe Hudson and Gork, the Teenage Dragon! Hudson will be here Tuesday, July 25th at 7pm to talk about his new book. After a meeting where booksellers are pitched books coming out in the upcoming months, my fellow booksellers and I shuffled through boxes filled with books to choose from. The colorful … Continue reading Bookseller Review: GORK, THE TEENAGE DRAGON
IN THE STORE Richelle Mead The Midnight Jewel Saturday, July 8 6 pm The speaking portion of this event is free & open to the public. If you cannot make the event, you can order a signed copy of Midnight Jewel. Simply add the book to your cart and indicate SIGNED COPY. We ship all over the world! Richelle … Continue reading Teen Thursday 7/6
What This Story Needs Is A Vroom and A Zoom Emma Virján In this fifth and final installment of the PIG IN A WIG series, Emma Virján sends Pig on the road! But will car trouble derail Pig's important cross country car race? Find out in Emma Virján's latest What This Story Needs Is A Vroom … Continue reading New Books 7/4! Happy Independence Day!
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. International Read Naked Day July 5th - Everywhere July 5th is … Continue reading Austin Events for the Literati – July
BIG NEWS IN TEEN LIT!!! John Green is at it again, and we can't wait!!! We have a limited number of signed* copies available, which you can pre-order now! *Books have been pre-signed by the author, these are not personalized NEW RELEASES! The Midnight Jewel Richelle Mead The Selection meets Reign in this dazzling trilogy of interwoven … Continue reading Teen Friday 6/30
BookPeople has a cadre of booksellers on staff who have loved sci-fi for pretty much as long as they can remember—though their tastes often vary, this new literary sci-fi novel from Swedish author Karin Tidbeck has a "what if" hook guaranteed to suck in anyone as in love with words as we are. That hook? … Continue reading Top Shelf: Amatka
UNSUB Meg Gardiner Meg Gardiner's latest is a riveting psychological inspired by the never-caught Zodiac killer, all about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier: an UNSUB (unknown subject) nicknamed The Prophet. The Prophet left a trail of twisted mind games and … Continue reading New Books 6/27
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