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Statesman Selects: LUCKY US by Amy Bloom
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We’re happy to announce that the Statesman Selects pick for August is Lucky Us by Amy Bloom. Bloom is one of our favorite writers. Her new novel is an absorbing tale of two sisters who travel across 1940s America and into adulthood. Bloom follows Iris and Eva from coast to coast, lover to lover, at…
New Releases – 8/5/14
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HARDCOVER FICTION Joe’s pick of the day: The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman “Lev Grossman’s deconstruction of C.S.Lewis’ mythology reaches its conclusion. Beginning with a sorcerous heist and culminating in an apocalyptic ‘Last Battle,’ new faces are introduced and old friends reappear. Meanwhile new twists on old mysteries are revealed as…
New Book Club: Murder in the Afternoon
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Sometimes you can’t wait until the evening to talk about murder. With that in mind, we invite you to join MysteryPeople for Murder in the Afternoon, a brand new afternoon book club that meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 2PM on our third floor (603 N. Lamar Blvd). Join us for coffee, tea,…
Reading Recommendations from Edan Lepucki
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Last week, Edan Lepucki came to BookPeople, reading and signing her debut novel and our Top Shelf Pick for July, California! Recommended by Stephen Colbert and BookPeople’s own, Alex, Lepucki’s California takes on the post-apocalyptic tale with refreshing tenderness and realism as a married couple navigate and survive in their new…
Author Events This Week at BookPeople
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? Happy Monday, book lovers!! Here’s a look at the week of events here at the store: Monday 8/4 7pm Jesse Sublett & Broadus Spivey are here with their new book about a piece of Texas history, BROKE, NOT BROKEN: HOMER MAXEY’S TEXAS BANK WAR. Tuesday 8/5 7pm YA Author Jennifer…
Reading Recommendations from Josh Weil
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Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming and listening to National Book Award “5 Under 35” author, Josh Weil read from his debut novel, The Great Glass Sea! The Statesman Selects pick for July, The Great Glass Sea is a great summer read of love, loss, and light, set in an…
Teen Thursday
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It’s YA lucky day! It’s Teen Thursday! Where we bring you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps! Texas Teen Book Fest News! There have been a lot of announcements from the fest in the past few weeks. Many amazing authors have joined the…
THE GLASS SENTENCE: A Treasure of Imagination
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The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove ~ review by Sarah H. First and foremost, The Glass Sentence is a novel of astounding imagination. The world of the protagonist, Sophia Tims, is, at first glance, the real Boston, Massachusetts of the late 1800s. But nearly a century before Sophia was born, the…
New Releases – 7/29/14
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HARDCOVER FICTION Matthew’s pick of the day and Top Shelf for August: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway “In that Tigerman is filled with gentle wit and quiet restraint, it is a wonderful display of British genre fiction. In that Tigerman often defies categorization and eventually abolishes all restraint with makeshift explosives, it…
Top Shelf in August: TIGERMAN by Nick Harkaway
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Top Shelf in August: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway Reviewed by Matthew Describing a Nick Harkaway novel never fails to bring a smile to the listener of my rambling reviews. The premise always seems crazy and my enthusiasm excessive. “Well his first book is kind of a trucker, horror, post-apocalyptic novel that comments on…
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