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Here's what's brand new on the shelves today, check it out: HARDCOVER FICTION Storm at the Door by Stefan Merrill Block - This haunting love story about a wife devoted to her dark and manic husband, a veteran of World War II, and their volatile marriage shifts through time and reaches across generations. Along the … Continue reading New Releases
This Wednesday at 7pm MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore-within-a-bookstore, welcomes a fabulous duo, Sophie Littlefield and Juliet Blackwell. Sophie's popularity has skyrocketed with her Stella Hardesty series, about a middle-aged Missouri woman who moonlights as an avenging angel for women done wrong by the abusive men in their lives. Juliet will bring the latest in her … Continue reading Wine, Women, Live Music & Murder! (Mysteries, that is)
We've been busy over in the teen section this past week working on putting together the finishing touches to our new teen website -- something I encourage you to check out. You can get to it from BookPeople.com, or you can click here. There's a bunch of cool stuff you can do from this site: … Continue reading Teen Reviewers, Teen Interns, & Teen Book Club, Oh My!
In honor of the 127th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day Leopold Bloom spent stumbling down the streets of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses, BookPersons Stephanya and Clint have made a solemn vow to one another: they will read a chapter of Ulysses every week and discuss it. No excuses. No complaining, "Oh, my eyes are … Continue reading Happy Bloomsday!
Take a look at the man himself greeting the crowd before signing over 600 (!!) books! PLUS, see what some of the fans here had to say about Simon.
7pm tonight. Simon Pegg. In this store. And you? Will you be here? We still have plenty of books and wristbands to go around. Come on down to the store or give us a call: (512) 472-5050 The rules one more time: In order to join the signing line and meet Simon Pegg you must … Continue reading Simon Pegg is Here TODAY!
Master Bookseller Brian reviews Slavenka Drakulic's book, S.: A Novel About the Balkans. ~ We’ve all seen the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic in the news lately. Some, or most of us, have silently cheered as one of the monsters of our time is brought to justice. While we know that even if Mladic … Continue reading Some Stories Just Need to Be Told: A Review of ‘S.’
Each month, our friends over at Austin's Pizza select a book to read and review. This month, the book is The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka. Here's J. D. Torian's review: The One-Straw Revolution is a simple book written by a simple man who lives plainly in an overcomplicated and … Continue reading Austin’s Pizza Book of the Month: ‘The One-Straw Revolution’
It seemed like only yesterday when we heard the news: Simon Pegg was going on book tour for his new memoir, Nerd Do Well, and he was coming here to BookPeople! Ah, yes, the days of waiting have been long, but now here we are, a mere 31 hours (perhaps only 30 1/2 by the … Continue reading Simon Pegg is Here Tomorrow!
Barring any tornadoes (which is what pre-empted his visit to us back in April) Bobby Deen, son of Paula Deen and at one time one of People Magazine's hottest bachelors (no idea if he's still up for grabs, ladies, we just do the bookselling, not the matchmaking) will be here this Saturday, June 18th, 7p … Continue reading Bobby Deen’s Getting Us All Fired Up…for Beer Brats
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