Edward Carey’s Heap House: Victorian London’s Most Unusual Mountain of Trash

Edward Carey is indeed a local-to-Austin author, but his new young adult series, The Iremonger Trilogy, couldn't have fewer breakfast tacos or intense moments of Texas sun. Indeed, Carey's Heap House, the first book in the trilogy, is blanketed in the delicious gray gloom of his native England, taking his readers to an unusual trash … Continue reading Edward Carey’s Heap House: Victorian London’s Most Unusual Mountain of Trash →

Texas Teen Book Fest Success!

~post by Julie W. (photos courtesy of Julie's phone & Texas Teen Book Festival) We had a long, crazy, wonderful day at the Texas Teen Book Festival on Saturday, October 18th. This was a big year for us. The festival evolved from the Austin Teen Book Festival into the Texas Teen Book Festival as the Texas Book Festival became an … Continue reading Texas Teen Book Fest Success! →

The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec: A Story of Boundless Love and Suffering

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 →

THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY BOOK CLUB Harbors Known Practitioners of Magic

~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 →

The Cat Daddy is Back with CATIFICATION!

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! →

New Releases – 10/14/14

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 →

Mind Blowing Mysteries from Japan!

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! →

R. L. Stine Comes to BookPeople!

Be afraid. Be very afraid. R. L. Stine, master of terror for readers old and young, is coming to BookPeople on Saturday, November 15 at 12pm with the first new book in his legendary Fear Street series in almost two decades, Party Games. This novel is classic Stine: Rachel's friends warned her not to go … Continue reading R. L. Stine Comes to BookPeople! →

New Releases – 10/7/14

HARDCOVER FICTION Some Luck by Jane Smiley Signed copies available while supplies last! Some Luck delivers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among characters we come to know inside and out, it is a tour de force that stands wholly … Continue reading New Releases – 10/7/14 →

LeVar Burton Is Coming to BookPeople!

We are thrilled to welcome LeVar Burton, an icon of reading for generations of book lovers, to BookPeople to share his new picture book, The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm. In this poetic book-within-a-book, a happy little rhinoceros is overwhelmed by a storm that sweeps away everything he loves, until he is given a … Continue reading LeVar Burton Is Coming to BookPeople! →