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We're very, VERY excited to announce that we will host the one and only Felicia Day, actress, internet celebrity and all around awesome human, here at BookPeople on Saturday, August 15 at 6PM. Day will be here to sign copies of her new book, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). Just who is Felicia Day? Thanks … Continue reading Felicia Day Is Coming to BookPeople!
We're excited to announce our fourth Trust Fall pick: The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler! Trust Fall subscribers will receive a signed, first edition of this new novel, along with a second surprise book and a few extra goodies. Packages will ship mid-July. Trust Fall is a program designed to highlight must-read debut or break … Continue reading Announcing Trust Fall Pick #4!
A scant few weeks ago, Nick Offerman graced us at BookPeople with his robust presence, descending from a helicopter he carved out of granite on a rope ladder he wove from snakeskin to present his new book Gumption, which he built out of words and letters. This Monday June 29th at 7:00 p.m., the Stand … Continue reading The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Paddles Their Own Darn Canoes!
We're honored to announce that BookPeople will once again welcome President Jimmy Carter to our store, this time to sign his new book, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. President Carter will be here Saturday, August 1 at 2:30pm. Tickets now available via bookpeople.com. EVENT GUIDELINES This event is a SIGNING only. Tickets are required to join … Continue reading President Jimmy Carter Returns to BookPeople!
Melanie is a prodigy with a genius-level IQ. Her spatial reasoning and grasp of complex social and behavioral structures are off the charts. In a doomed world, she may be humanity's last hope. She is ten years old, and today she is scheduled for dissection. The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Opens The Pandora’s Box That Is The Girl With All the Gifts
-- post by Meghan G. Are you a young writer looking to hone your craft and get some real world feedback about your work? If so, we a very exciting opportunity you should know about. As programming partners for the Texas Teen Book Festival, we are thrilled to announce an exciting new writing contest for teens. Thanks to a … Continue reading Calling All Teen Writers – #TTBF Writing Contest!
Artie Lange should be dead. With the sheer volume of heroin he's shoveled up his nose, hydrocodone he's gobbled, and scotch he's waterfalled down his throat, the ratio of his overall cellular composition must heavily favor poison over human DNA at this point. Any one of his overdoses, crashed cars, or nervous breakdowns should have … Continue reading At Long Last! The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Crashes And Burns!!!!!!!
The first event of the season is at Austin's Salvage Vanguard Theater on May 23rd, 8pm.
In 1986, Clive Barker got his hooks into the fabric of our reality and ripped our fragile, human world to ribbons, revealing a gruesome order of otherworldly, psychosexual monks known simply as the Cenobites. Since their initial appearance in The Hellbound Heart, their scarified and ecstatic visages have haunted the world's nightmares through the Hellraiser … Continue reading Steve(n) W. Has Studied The Scarlet Gospels, Soul Is Lost (A Review)
Welcome to Day Three of our investigation of all things Nick Offerman. As we approach the day (Wednesday, June 3 at 7pm) when Offerman is here at BookPeople, live and in person (with his new book, Gumption), we’re digging up all of the information we can find (and that Wikipedia provides) on the Renaissance man known as … Continue reading Nick Offerman: More Than A Mustache
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