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Earlier this year, bestselling author Sherman Alexie issued a call to arms to authors nationwide: show your support of your local independent bookstore by volunteering to work! And thus was born Indies First. On Saturday, November 30 (also known as Small Business Saturday), a team of Austin authors will put on BookPeople lanyards and test their … Continue reading Indies First!
Tomorrow at 12pm MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery-bookstore-within-a-bookstore, is hosting a big release party for Austin mystery novelist Janice Hamrick. Her debut novel, Death on Tour, won the 2010 Mystery Writers of America/St. Martin's First Crime Novel contest. Here's Scott, MysteryPeople's Crime Fiction Coordinator, talking about Death on Tour. Come on down tomorrow afternoon and join us … Continue reading Release Party: Janice Hamrick, ‘Death On Tour’
_____________________________________________________ Danny - Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin "A lot of people lauded this book as unique to the fantasy genre and I was still expecting cliche fantasy, but was taken aback by how entertaining and different from normal fantasy novels it is. Full of bickering, backstabbing, politics, and people trying to … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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