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YA fans, we have some very exciting news - Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler are coming to BookPeople on Monday, January 23, 7p to speak and sign their brand new novel, The Future of Us! Asher's #1 New York Times bestselling book Thirteen Reasons Why is one of our all time favorites, and of course … Continue reading Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler Are Coming to BookPeople!
We're thrilled to announce we'll be hosting bestselling YA author JOHN GREEN when he comes to Austin in January! Green is on tour with his new book, The Fault In Our Stars, and he'll swing through Austin on Saturday, January 21, 7p to speak and sign books. Because John Green has a few....trillion fans, we're … Continue reading John Green Is Coming to Austin!
What if your teenage self met your future adult self - on your future facebook page? If you knew how things would turn out, would you change anything? This is the territory Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler venture into in their highly anticipated new YA novel, on sale today, The Future of Us. Asher is … Continue reading The Future of Us is Here!
Book: Holy Ghost Girl by Donna Johnson Reviewed by: Mandy Any story about growing up in the American south during the 1960s strikes my fancy – but this story done struck my fancy with lightning. Holy Ghost Girl is Donna Johnson’s memoir about growing up in a tent revival circuit under the direction of the … Continue reading Book Review: ‘Holy Ghost Girl’ by Donna Johnson
Have you met our new friend Marcel the Shell? No? Check it out, the little dude's got shoes on: If you like that, then you'll love what we have happening here on Wednesday, November 9, 7p with Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp.
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
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’
Simon Garfield, author of the new book Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, which asks the age-old question What does your favorite font say about YOU? analyzed the BookPeople logo and told us what our font says about us: “A maverick font for a maverick store. The BookPeople sign is a big, … Continue reading We’re Mavericks. In a Good Way.
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.’
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!
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