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HARDCOVER FICTION AFTER DEAD by Charlaine Harris Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels—a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next. With characters arranged alphabetically, Bestselling Author Charlaine … Continue reading New Releases – 10/29
_____________________________________________ HARDCOVER FICTION THE GOLDFINCH by DONNA TARTT The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. Thursday, November 7th at 7PM Donna Tartt will be at the store … Continue reading New Releases – 10/22
Ties That Bind: Stories of Love & Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps by Dave Isay Reviewed by Katie G. I love listening to people's real life stories, so StoryCorps has been on my radar for a long long while (along with so many of the other fine programs on NPR. This American … Continue reading Ties That Bind (and Make You Cry)
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! Where we bring you the highlights from BookPeople Teens and our Teen Press Corp Blog this week! Don't hold your breath. It's almost here, I swear! Allegiant is less than 2 weeks away! Colette: I read the first two books and loved them. I really liked the action. … Continue reading Teen Thursday
_____________________________________________ HARDCOVER FICTION STORM FRONT by JOHN SANDFORD The thrilling new novel in the bestselling Virgil Flowers series. Virgil Flowers is at it again working with an Israli cop who happens to be tailing a smuggler of an extraordinary relic -- a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. "Wait … Continue reading New Releases – 10/8
_____________________________________________ HARD COVER FICTION Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led … Continue reading New Releases – 10/1
~post by Katie G. I grew up with a mom who hated to cook and made a big deal about how much effort had to go into the meal vs the actual enjoyment of sitting down to eat it. In an attempt to circumvent this reaction to culinary creating, I've spent a number of years … Continue reading I’ll Keep It
We are instituting a new, exciting addition to the BookPeople Blog. Every Thursday from now until the world ends (you know, 12/21/12) or at least until we decide differently, the BP blog is going to be taken over by the teen section. I'm going to be sneaking over here from the BookKids Blog to tell … Continue reading Teen Thursday!
Sarah Vowell has a new book! If you've never read Sarah Vowell, you have to go read Assassination Vacation right now. Now! Why are you still reading this? Go! If you HAVE read Sarah Vowell, you're probably already excited by the prospect of her new book, The Wordy Shipmates, which tackles the settlers of the … Continue reading Allison L. recommends…
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