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This post comes from Scott Butki. Sarah Barnes has combined her storytelling skills learned as a newspaper reporter for various newspapers, most recently the Austin American-Statesman, with quite a story - about raising a daughter with an atypical brain - to produce a fascinating memoir. I'm going to steal a quote from the back of … Continue reading An Interview With Sarah Barnes
This post comes from our gifts inventory assistant and artist Tomoko. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (I am so stoked that one of my favorites won the National Book Award for Young Adults ) I love this book because it's incredibly and beautifully written. It tells the story of a young man who is starting to … Continue reading Tomoko’s Top 5 Books of 2015
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein "This shockingly candid memoir by the polymath creative engine behind Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag, and Portlandia scratches a nerve, revealing uncomfortable truths behind musical competition, the creative process, and the embattled humanity of this celebrated virtuoso. It can't all be rock and roll fun." Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving … Continue reading Steven’s Top 5 Books of 2015
We were very excited to have hosted George Saunders in our store this past Sunday. He delighted us with his conversation on his new book The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip and has now gifted us his favorite children's book recommendations. Check them out! The Happy Hocky Family by Lane Smith Here is the Hocky family … Continue reading George Saunders Recommends for Kids…
Help a local child celebrate the holidays by donating to our Giving Tree program! Every year, Merrilee hand-cuts dozens of delicate paper snowflakes to decorate our Giving Tree. On the back of each snowflake is the name and age of a child who would like a book for the Holidays, or a request for a specific … Continue reading The Giving Tree is Up!
The origin of The Conformist starts with Carlo Rosselli. Roselli was a major political figure in the anti-Fascist movements in Italy, Paris, and in the Spanish Civil War. He founded the anti-Fascist movement Giustizia e Liberta or Justice and Freedom. On June 9, 1937 while visiting the French resort town of Bagnoles-de-l’Orne, he was murdered … Continue reading The Authors & Auteurs Book Club Refuses To Become The Conformist
In no particular order, here are our favorite books of 2015 for young readers ages 7 and up.
Our Required Reading Revisited book for December 2015 is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Here they are, in no particular order, our top picture books of 2015.
On Saturday, November 28, we celebrated Small Business Saturday and #IndiesFirst with over a dozen Austin authors. They stopped by to support their local indie bookstore and keep us well-stocked with signed copies of their books. We're fortunate to live in a city rich with writers who give us great new books to read all year long. … Continue reading Austin Authors Keep #IndiesFirst!
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