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Welcome to our Book Club Corner, where each month we highlight books new to paperback we think would make perfect picks for your next book club discussion. If you’re looking to join a book club, we host a wide variety of free, bookseller-run book clubs right here at BookPeople. Join us! We love to talk books. Featured … Continue reading Book Club Corner: November Recommendations
Tomorrow afternoon at 5pm, in celebration of Eugene O'Neill's 126th birthday, members of the Actor's Theater of Austin will present a performance of O'Neill's one-act play Hughie. This small gem, from the author of Long Days Journey Into Night and The Iceman Cometh, is set in the lobby of a run down New York hotel … Continue reading Celebrate Eugene O’Neill’s Birthday With BookPeople and the Actor’s Theater of Austin
It's our favorite time of year! It's time for the Texas Teen Book Festival! THIS SATURDAY ON THE CAMPUS OF ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY! We are proud to be the co-founder, official bookseller and program director for this awesome, fun day-long celebration of some of our favorite Young Adult authors. All are welcome to attend … Continue reading THIS SATURDAY! Texas Teen Book Festival! A Free, Fun Day of YA!
SALVADOR The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau "Fantastic! I will read anything this guy writes. I started with his The Art of Non-Conformity, which is a classic along with The Happiness of Pursuit. Guillebeau is so clear about how people live their lives thinking that's what they're supposed to do, not thinking about … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec, translated by Willard Wood Reviewed by Jan The Goddess of Small Victories, a debut novel by French novelist Yannick Grannec, fictionalizes the career of brilliant real-life mathematician, logician, and philosopher, Kurt Gödel. Gödel made an immense impact in philosophical and mathematical thinking of the 20th century, through … Continue reading The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec: A Story of Boundless Love and Suffering
~post by Steve(n) The spells and enchantments protecting the Nightmare Factory Book Club from malevolent interlopers are as powerful as they are horrifying. If a malfeasant spy intrudes upon our discussion of The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman on Tuesday October 21st at 8:00 p.m., for example, their arms will become spider's arms, which shall … Continue reading THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY BOOK CLUB Harbors Known Practitioners of Magic
Celebrity cat whisperer Jackson Galaxy wants you to know that your home isn't actually your home. It's your cat's home. You may pay the rent and buy the kitty litter, but the house isn't yours. It's theirs. They leave their fur and cat toys everywhere, and your people furniture is just in their way. … Continue reading The Cat Daddy is Back with CATIFICATION!
HARDCOVER FICTION The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel--the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the 20th century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow, Adele, a … Continue reading New Releases – 10/14/14
Malice: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino ~review by Raul M. Chapa The rarest and most precious of mysteries are, in my opinion, the ones that twist the facts, make you scratch your head, and totally astound you when you finally … Continue reading Mind Blowing Mysteries from Japan!
by Mo What garish, ghoulish, droolish, schoolgirlish little words of love sputter forth from the mouth of a longtime fan of Stephin Merritt? I could tell you about my first encounter with his music, circa 1996, and how Mr. Merritt, alongside his best gal Claudia and a host of similarly-minded accomplices, made spun-sugar pop and … Continue reading Stephin Merritt’s 101 Two-Letter Words
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