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SPOILER ALERT: THIS REVIEW MAY GIVE AWAY SOME SECRETS IN JEFF ABBOTT'S PREVIOUS BOOK ADRENALINE In Adrenaline, Jeff Abbott introduced us to Sam Capra, a betrayed CIA agent and parkour enthusiast, who at the end of the book comes into possession of over thirty bars around the world. The book had characters, dialogue, and action … Continue reading MysteryPeople Pick of the Month: THE LAST MINUTE
Our Austin-wide Find Waldo Local Scavenger Hunt officially kicks off today! Gather up the family, get out there and Find Waldo! First things first - stop by BookPeople to pick up the official list of participating businesses or download a copy from our website. You have the whole month of July to visit these local, … Continue reading Get Out There & FIND WALDO!
Top Shelf in July: Coming to My Senses by Alyssa Harad Reviewed by: Danielle (Bookseller & Perfume Connoisseur) I've always had an unusually interactive relationship with my sense of smell. Sure, we all use our noses; but since I was a little girl, I was famous among my friends and family for my eager desire … Continue reading Top Shelf in July: COMING TO MY SENSES
We have plenty of fun summer activities for young readers this month. If you'd like to keep up with all of our BookKids news, subscribe to our monthly BookKids e-newsletter. We have all of our usual storytimes for your very young readers all summer long. ________________________________________________________ FIND WALDO LOCAL SCAVENGER HUNT! Waldo, our favorite red-white-and-blue … Continue reading What’s Happening in BookKids in July!
Post & Q&A by Stephanya As a confessed Antiquarian and Orientalist, I have long harbored a fascination with opium. But outside of a few hurried paragraphs in hundred-year-old books or shadowy scenes in noir films, I have never found much to feed my fascination with the poppy. So when one of our publisher reps came … Continue reading BookPeople Q&A with Steven Martin, author of OPIUM FIEND
~Post by Julie W. On Friday night a couple of us swung over to East Side King at Liberty Bar in our continued quest to eat our way through John T. Edge's Truck Food Cookbook in preparation for his event here Wednesday, June 27, 7p. It was late. We were both hungry and thirsty. We … Continue reading Food Truckin’ with the Truck Food Cookbook: Night Moves at East Side King
~Post by Julie W. Our extensive bookseller experience has proven that there's really only one way to prepare for a visiting cookbook author, and that's to EAT. So with John T. Edge coming to the store next Wednesday, June 27, 7p to talk about The Truck Food Cookbook, we took advantage of this quite perfect … Continue reading Food Truckin’ with the Truck Food Cookbook
Though I grew up in Texas, most of my summers were spent riding out the oppressive heat on the beach in a small town in Oregon. One of my favorite pastimes there was going to the local library and scoring an impossibly tall stack of books to devour, due back in a week. Even though … Continue reading Marie’s Summer Reading List
Hey kids! Waldo, our favorite red-white-and-blue wanderer, is heading out around the country this July to flaunt his independence and tour some of the special places that make America's communities so unique -- and even weird! And of course that means he's hitting Austin and daring you to find him as he visits some of … Continue reading Find in Waldo in Austin!
~Post by Nolan What if you aren't born innocent? Everyone is shaped by an experience and grows old in some way or another. You realize the world isn't the place it was and you're given new insights and new eyes that shade your existence just a little. But what if you aren't born innocent? What … Continue reading What Dies in Summer
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