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Book: The Living End by Robert Leleux Reviewed by: Sophia I am a big fan of memoir. I love reading about lives and how they are lived. Over the past month, my memoir of choice has been Robert Leleux’s The Living End, which details the author’s experience of struggling with his maternal grandmother’s approaching death. … Continue reading Book Review: ‘The Living End’ by Robert Leleux
World Book Night, the one-night event with the goal of distributing one million free books across the country, needs book-loving folks to volunteer as Givers to help put free books into people's hands. Want to help? Visit the World Book Night website and sign up to hand out twenty WBN paperbacks in your community on … Continue reading World Book Night is Looking for Book Lovers!
Matthew Love Is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski "I was walking down the street last night and I was like, Matt, you have to toughen up or this town is going to swallow you whole. So I walked into BookPeople, made a beeline for the poetry section, and went for the darkest, toughest … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
New year, new books. Here's a selection of what's fresh on the shelves today. Blurbs courtesy of the books' publishers. HARDCOVER FICTION The Hunter by John Lescroart Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family-until he gets a chilling text message from an … Continue reading New Releases
It's here! The BookPeople Tote! We gave away 100 of these babies yesterday for Customer Appreciation Day. If you missed the freebie, don't fret - they're only $1.19. You'll find them up front by our Greet Desk and also on a display by our registers, which is where you'll find all kinds of fun BookPeople … Continue reading Hey Look! Cool Stuff for Book Nerds!
UT Psychology professor Art Markman has good news for anyone with a mind - it's possible to improve the way that it works. His new book, Smart Thinking, examines intelligence beyond the IQ to look at how we focus on new information (or so often don't, in this multi-tasking world), how memory works, and the … Continue reading Get Smart!
Back in 1996, two best friends log onto the internet using their modem and an AOL CD (remember those?), and suddenly find their future Facebook profiles that they will have fifteen years later. At least that's the premise of the new book from YA superstar authors Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. It's an intriguing concept. … Continue reading The Future of Us
Blogger Samantha Clark mentioned in a comment here yesterday that she was able to download the IndieBound e-Reader app to her Kindle Fire. She shares step-by-step instructions as to how to do it on her blog. If you give it a try, let us know if it works for you, too. Writers, you might want … Continue reading Installing IndieBound E-Reader on Your Kindle Fire
Why We Broke Up, the new book from Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman, is a terrific example of a publisher going the extra mile to make a print book truly exceptional. The warm red cover catches an eye and beckons a palm; inside, glossy pages are a perfect fit for Kalman's unique illustrations of the … Continue reading New Book from Daniel Handler & Maira Kalman
Our calendar is full of all kinds of fun and fabulous author events in 2012. Here's a little peek at what to look forward to so y'all can mark your calendars. This list is by no means exhaustive. To see all of the events happening here in the new year, check out our website. … Continue reading A Glimpse Into the Future…Events to Come in 2012
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