Howdy! We're the largest independent bookstore in Texas. This is our blog.
A look at some of the wonderfully creative staff recommendations in the Teen section! One of our favorite tasks as booksellers here at BookPeople is creating staff recommendation cards. You may have seen them last time you visited, spread out on our shelves all over the store. You may have even bought a book because … Continue reading Teen Thursday: Bookseller Faves!
Last month, Thomas Mallon joined us to discuss his new novel, Landfall. If you missed it, check out our podcast recording of it here. You can also find The BookPeople Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Mallon is the author of ten novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, Fellow Travelers, and Watergate. Fellow Travelers has been … Continue reading BookPeople Podcast: Thomas Mallon
Two books down, three to go in our weekly tour of the National Book Awards fiction shortlist! This week I curled up with Paulette Jiles’ delightful historical novel News of the World. Laugh and cry with me as you read about reading about an old man and a little girl whose deep bond is forged … Continue reading NBA Countdown: News of the World
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's Swans of the 1950s and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Truman Capote and the socialites of 1950s New York … Continue reading Swans of 5th Ave
The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, is the sequel to the 2010 Newbery Honor-winning book, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Austin-area author Jacqueline Kelly. Calpurnia Tate is one of those characters that lives on well after the reader has finished the book, and it is a delight to be treated to another wonderful story … Continue reading Chris Barton talks with Jacqueline Kelly
Anywhere but Paradise, is a new chapter book by Anne Bustard. It tells the story of Peggy Sue, a girl who has to move from Texas to Hawaii in the 1960s. She is definitely not happy about the move -- she faces a bully at school, her cat is in quarantine, tsunamis threaten her family, … Continue reading Chris Barton talks with Anne Bustard
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford Reviewed by Katie Presley In the afterword to his new novel Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford describes “beautiful melancholy” as his constant writing partner. His niche was built directly into the title of his stellar debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which is as … Continue reading SONGS OF WILLOW FROST: Eye Level With A Pair of Hearts
~post by Joe T. Dan Simmons is a man who has made a strong name for himself in both the worlds of horror and speculative fiction. His Hyperion Cantos series has won numerous Locus awards, a Hugo, and has been nominated multiple times for the Nebula awards. His horror fiction career has spanned from … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 9 “Dan Simmons”
Woodsburner by John Pipkin Before he moved into his cabin at Walden, before he published his most famous text, before he wrote that most of us "lead lives of quiet desperation," Thoreau was a big fat nobody. In fact, he was even worse than a nobody. Almost a year before he embarked on his Walden … Continue reading Woodsburner
BookPeople 