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Kids booksellers share some of their recommendations to celebrate Pride Month! It's Pride, y'all! We kicked off the month with a wonderful, music-filled Drag Storytime and we've been walking on air ever since! A huge shout-out to the performers who dazzled our guests with their outfits, dancing, and reading: Papi Churro, Channing Ate'em, Mad Max, … Continue reading BookKids: Reading with Pride!
Recursion by Blake Crouch Imagine waking up one day with a set of vivid memories from a life you are not currently living. Would it drive you into madness, or would you just shrug it off as a strange occurrence? In this book we enter an alternate world in our current timeline where the disease … Continue reading What We’re Reading 6/12
Places and Names By Elliot Ackerman: At once an intensely personal book about the terrible lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the larger meaning of the past two decades of strife for America, the region and the world, Places and Names bids fair to take its place among our greatest books about modern … Continue reading New Releases 6/11
The literary community lost one of its great voices early last week with the passing of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz. We were fortunate to recently have Horwitz in the store for an event with his newest book, Spying on the South. Set in the 1850s, it tells the story of the young Frederick Law Olmsted, … Continue reading New Podcast: Tony Horwitz
Eugenia sat down to chat with YA author Sarah Dessen on the release day of her 14th novel, The Rest of the Story. Dessen kicked off her tour at BookPeople to a packed house of adoring fans. We have a limited number of signed copies left, so get yours while you can! Eugenia Vela: Congratulations … Continue reading Teen Thursday: Q&A with Sarah Dessen
Normal People By Sally Rooney: Sally Rooney's writing made me feel like I was 20 years old again. It took me back to those days of love and lust and stupid misunderstandings, the first time you're out in the world on your own, confused as hell-- I could feel it all again, as vividly as … Continue reading What We’re Reading 6/5
The Rest of the Story By Sarah Dessen: Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges. Now it’s just Emma … Continue reading New Releases 6/4
To celebrate Godzilla, floor manager and film connoisseur Gregory teamed up with bookseller and artist at large Griffin to make an awesome display on the second floor of the store (near the film section!) and here explores the life and times of the giant monster that we all know and love. Godzilla turns 65 this … Continue reading Go, Go Godzilla!
If you weren't able to make it to our latest MysteryPeople sponsored event with David C. Taylor and Joan Moran, check out our new podcast recording of the event! Taylor's Night Watch is the third novel in the Michael Cassidy series of noir thrillers set in New York City in the 1950’s. The first, Night Life, was a … Continue reading New MysteryPeople Podcast
Dive into summer reading with the 5 Book Dive challenge! On Saturday, May 18th we kicked off summer reading with some of our favorite middle grade authors at the 5 Book Dive festival! We laughed, we danced, we improv'd... we met Elephant & Piggie, wore ridiculous pool floaties, you name it. You got to watch … Continue reading BookKids: Take the summer reading challenge!
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