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What We’re Reading This Week
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COLLEEN The Art of Comforting: What to Say and Do For People in Distress by Val Walker “This book shows you the best ways to help people who are dealing with trauma or distress. Incredibly helpful–it takes a lot of guesswork out of what to do to help someone by describing…
DIARY OF THE FALL: Symphonic, Beautifully Rendered
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Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub translated by Margaret Jull Costa ~post by Ben Auschwitz. It’s a word that has come to mean so much more than the place it was meant to represent. Michel Laub’s The Diary of the Fall, approaches the complexity of living as a Jew in…
New Releases – 8/26/14
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? HARDCOVER FICTION LOCK IN by John Scalzi We’re very excited to have Scalzi, author of Redshirts, one of our Top Shelf picks a while back, in the store Wed 8/27 with his latest sci-fi novel, LOCK IN. ? WORN STORIES by Emily Spivack “Everyone has a memoir in miniature in…
Take A Chance With Us: The BookPeople Trust Fall
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It’s no secret we read a lot of books around here. And it’s no secret that we love telling you all about them. The best part of our job is getting to share our love of books with you. Every once in awhile we all fall hard for a new author…
Yuyi Morales: I Am My Hero and So Are You!
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This is the second month in a series of author guest posts about diversity in children’s literature and the BookPeople Modern First Library initiative. We’ve enjoyed many posts by local Austin authors and now look forward to sharing guest posts written by national authors. For more about BookPeople’s Modern First Library initiative, and for…
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 Festival News! It was a big announcement week for the #TTBF14 – the full schedule and author roster was released! We are so…
Review: Dear Committee Members
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Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher reviewed by Andrew H. A novel full of letters of recommendation? I did not really know what to expect from Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members, but I’m glad I picked it up on a whim. The writer of these letters, Jay Fitger, is a hopeless,…
Rick Riordan Returns to Austin!
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We’re thrilled to announce that the one and only Rick Riordan is coming back to Austin with his new book, The Blood of Olympus. We’re hosting Rick at Westlake Peforming Arts Center on Monday, October 13 at 6pm. Tickets are required. Tickets are now available in-store and via bookpeople.com. We hope…
New Releases – 8/12/14
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? HARDCOVER FICTION Consuelo’s pick of the day: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami “Murakami has created one of those rare stories where the language reflects the protagonist. Each word is carefully placed, just as Tsukuru Tazaki meticulously lives his life, putting up barriers between himself…
Book Vloggin’ With Jan: Two Profoundly Influential Japanese Authors
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Each month, Jan, one of our intrepid booksellers, picks a different topic and tells us about her must-read books in that genre. This month she’s vloggin’ about two profound and influential books from Japanese authors! Books Discussed In This Blog: Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa “SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 