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THIS WEEKEND Sunday, September 23 at 2 PM Author NGOZI UKAZU speaking & signing Check, Please!: #Hockey BUZZ BOOK A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti Each step on Annabelle’s 2,700 mile cross-country run brings her closer to facing a trauma from her past in National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti’s … Continue reading Teen Thursday
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly Rage becomes ME as I continue to make my way through Soraya's inspirational call for equality. Anger from women has become a taboo emotion in our society today. Personally, I often struggle showing my anger. Soraya urges her readers to not feel shame from their anger, but to use … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
In high school, my brother Alan won the state heavyweight championship in his division. I was in college—he’s two years younger than I am—and I couldn’t make the championship, but my parents called in triumph to tell me the legendary tale. My brother had a move they called “The Hammer,” a magnificent feat of strength … Continue reading New & Noteworthy Book Club Reads Stephen Florida
Heartland By Sarah Smarsh: An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest, Heartland has already been longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and named one of Kirkus Reviews 12 Most Ancitipated Fall Reads. During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and … Continue reading New Releases 9/18
We're hiring! BookPeople is looking for seasonal booksellers! Love BookPeople? Love books? Come work with us! BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas. During our more than forty-year history, we have gained national recognition and become an iconic Austin destination. From our beginnings in 1970 as a small new age bookstore in West … Continue reading Come work with us!
THIS WEEKEND Saturday, September 15 at 2 PM SCOTT WESTERFELD speaking & signing Impostors SOON Sunday, September 23 at 2 PM NGOZI UKAZU speaking & signing Check, Please!: #Hockey NEW TEEN FICTION Confessions of a Teenage Leper by Ashley Little Cheerleading, mean girls, shopping . . . and leprosy? High school is … Continue reading Teen Thursday
Dog Symphony by Sam Munson A snarky & supercilious professor, specializing in prison architecture, travels to Buenos Aires for a conference that's really a front for a romantic liaison. When he locks himself out of his hotel, he finds the streets empty of people—but filled with thousands of dogs. Lucid, garish, austere, and hilarious. As … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
She Would Be King by Wayètu Moore "Fengbe, keh kamba beh. Fengbe emu beh. We have nothing but we have God. We have nothing but we have each other." There are some books that you just know are going to stick with you a while. She Would Be King is one of those books. Wayètu … Continue reading September Top Shelf
Imposters By Scott Westerfeld: Deception. Risk. Betrayal. Redemption. Master storyteller Scott Westerfeld is at the top of his game, and back to his most famous realm with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies series—a world full of twist and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be heroine … Continue reading New Releases 9/11
Over the next few months, we’ll be hearing from different community voices about what a Modern First Library means to them! Below, Austin drag queen and storyteller Honey St. Claire shares her story. Read more from the series here. I’m Honey St. Claire, Austin’s most prominent gluten-free drag queen. During my time as a performer … Continue reading Modern First Library: Books for Current and Future Queens by Honey St. Claire
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