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CONVERSATIONS: Original and Intelligent
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Conversations by César Aira translated by Katherine Silver It’s a wonderful feeling to discover a new author. Whether in a sparkling new debut, or that recommendation which you’ve put off reading, there is a particular freshness when opening the title of someone you’ve never read before. Newly released translations can act…
Loved, valued, unique? Yes. Center of the universe? No.
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Guest post by Austin author Chris Barton ___________________________________ I want my sons to feel loved. I want them to feel that they, individually, are valued and unique. But I don’t want them — or anyone else in their demographic — to get the idea that they’re at the center of the…
LANDLINE: A True Look At True Love
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Landline by Rainbow Rowell Reviewed by Consuelo I was hesitant as I started Landline. I haven’t read Attachments, and I was worried that Rainbow Rowell’s grown-up characters would not have the same grip on me that her young adult characters did when I read Eleanor & Park and Fangirl. My hesitation didn’t…
COME, SWEET DEATH! Funny, Full of Suspense
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? (This review was first posted on the MysteryPeople blog.) Come, Sweet Death! by Wolf Haas Reviewed by Andrew H. Wolf Haas has a voice to be reckoned with. His series of novels starring Detective Brenner is already wildly popular in his native Austria and in Germany, and it is only a…
New Releases – 7/8/14
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FICTION A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor “A globetrotting, witty, powerful and wildly ambitious novel that is at once a psychological journey and a terrific page-turner. Will Chancellor has an electrifying, deeply original voice, and his book is so full of depth and heart that it’s impossible to put…
THE KLAATU DISKOS SERIES: Imaginative and Seamless
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~review by Sara H. The Klaatu Diskos Series by Pete Hautman The Obsidian Blade (2012) The Cydonian Pyramid (2013) The Klaatu Terminus (2014) Tucker Fey’s parents have suddenly gone missing after a strange phenomenon is witnessed above their house – a perfectly circular shaped distortion of light. After weeks of his…
2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Long List Announced!
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The Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Long List was announced last week, and there are a lot of great books included. We’ve already been buzzing about a few of them at the store and certainly don’t envy the judges when it comes to picking one winner from the bunch! While we wait…
Special Pre-Order Offer From Stephanie Perkins!
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We’re excited to be part of Stephanie Perkins’s awesome pre-order campaign for signed copies of Isla and the Happily Ever After! Not only will copies pre-ordered through BookPeople be signed by Stephanie, she’s also throwing in a FREE bundle of decals and FREE BUTTONS with every pre-order! 25 lucky pre-orders will also receive a…
Bookseller Review: CATALOGING THE WORLD
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Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age by Alex Wright Reviewed by Jan Alex Wright channels his inner James Gleick here and offers us a compelling biography, not only of an important forerunner to information science, but a brief biography of the birth of the Web and…
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