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It’s Banned Books Week, the week when we celebrate our freedom to read by remembering those books which have been banned, censored and challenged over the years. Folks from around the world have been uploading videos of themselves reading excerpts from banned books to this Youtube channel, where a worldwide Virtual Read Out is in full swing. You can send … Continue reading Read a Banned Book: ‘Of Mice and Men’
Whether or not the mustache will be joining John Hodgman when he is here in our store on Tuesday, November 8th, 7p is unconfirmed. Ditto for the dinosaur ferret bones. What has been confirmed is that tickets for this event will go on sale Tuesday, November 1, the same day Hodgman's new book, That Is … Continue reading Look at These Photos of John Hodgman
It’s Banned Books Week, the week when we celebrate our freedom to read by remembering those books which have been banned, censored and challenged over the years. We’re highlighting a banned book a day here on the blog. If you’d like to participate in BBW, send us a video of yourself reading an excerpt from a banned book … Continue reading Read a Banned Book: ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’
John Sandford is a heavy hitter in the world of Crime Fiction, having published thirty-one novels under this pseudonym (his real name is John Roswell Camp, Pulitzer-Prize winnning journalist), all of which have hit the New York Times bestseller list. MysteryPeople will welcome John Sandford to speak about his latest thriller, Shock Wave, on Tuesday, … Continue reading MysteryPeople’s Scott M. Gets Us Into ‘Shock Wave’
The Austin Teen Book Festival, taking place on October 1st, 2011 10am – 5pm at the Palmer Events Center, is a FREE festival with the mission of connecting teens with authors of books for teens. Panels of authors will discuss a wide variety of topics, sign their books, and celebrate all things teen fiction. To … Continue reading Pen Fatales: Four YA Authors Ensnare Readers in Bonds of Book-Love at ATBF
The Murakami Project: Each week leading up to October 25th, the on-sale date of Haruki Murakami’s long-awaited 1Q84 in its English translation, a different BookPerson will review one of Murakami’s previous titles. Folks who haven’t read Murakami yet can familiarize themselves with what the book world will be buzzing about come October (and maybe discover … Continue reading The Murakami Project: Kester Reviews ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’
On sale today! All blurbs come from the books' publishers! HARDCOVER FICTION Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household. She has been responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit, and suddenly Araceli is the last Mexican standing. The financial pressure is causing the … Continue reading New Releases
It’s Banned Books Week, the week when we celebrate our freedom to read by remembering those books which have been banned, censored and challenged over the years. We’re highlighting a banned book a day here on the blog. If you’d like to participate in BBW, send us a video of yourself reading an excerpt from a banned … Continue reading Read a Banned Book: ‘The Things They Carried’
~Post by Meghan G., Children's Book Buyer When we were visited a couple of months ago by the Director of Marketing for Workman Publishing, we were offered the chance to preview Mourad: New Moroccan, a new Fall cookbook from Mourad Lahlou, chef and owner of Aziza in San Francisco. I love to cook, and immediately … Continue reading Meghan Takes the ‘Mourad: New Moroccan’ Cooking Challenge
It's Banned Books Week, the week when we celebrate our freedom to read by remembering those books which have been banned and censored over the years. We'll highlight a banned book a day here on the blog. If you'd like to participate in BBW, send us a video of yourself reading an excerpt from a … Continue reading Read A Banned Book: ‘The Odyssey’
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