NEGOCIO & VENDAS

NEGOCIO & VENDAS.

NEGOCIO & VENDAS

BookPeople and AISD celebrate Grandfather Gandhi in the classroom!

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~Post by Meghan G.

As part of our mission to foster a love of reading in Austin and actively engage young readers in our community, BookPeople is so pleased to announce we’ll continue to partner with Austin ISD’s Office of Academics to develop in-depth curriculum tie-in resources that bring great books to life for Austin students.

We launched our program together with AISD and local author Shana Burg during the 2013-2014 school year to build on Burg’s novel Laugh with the Moon. Together, we created art, social studies, and music units and connected students in classrooms from 40 schools with Malawi pen pals. The program culminated in a special event at BookPeople that connected Austin student ambassadors with a select group of pen pals via Skype. This rewarding program showed us how much could be gained by working together.

This year we had the great fortune to collaborate with a large committee from AISD’s…

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weekend reading

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Chris Kraus’s Torpor, originally published in 2006, was recently republished by semiotext(e). In Null and Void, Becca Rothfeld insists that Torpor  “is not the festival of negativity we deserved but the festival of negativity we needed in those—and these—artificially untroubled times.” Though she deems the novel “depressing to a fault,” she argues for the importance of negativity and negative emotion in a culture that frequently requires a false outward display of positivity. In Slate. 

Also, be sure to check out Negative Emotions, by Lydia Davis (author of Can’t and Won’t, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Break it Down, and many more.) It’s referenced in Null and Void and follows a similar trajectory of arguing for negative emotional spaces and reactions, though Davis does a good job of making that sentiment quite funny. From Tweed’s. 

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the process…

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New Books! 4/21/15

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New in Fiction

Beauty’s Kingdom by Anne Rice

Mega-bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, returns to the mysterious kingdom of Queen Eleanor in this new chapter of her Sleeping Beauty series. When the great queen is reported dead, Beauty and Laurent return to the kingdom they left twenty years before. Beauty agrees to take the throne, but she insists that all erotic servitude be voluntary. Countless eager princes, princesses, lords, ladies, and commoners journey to Beauty’s realm, where she and her husband usher in a new era of desire, longing, and ecstasy. Provocative and stirring, Rice’s imaginative retelling of the Sleeping Beauty myth will be adored by her longtime fans and new readers of erotica just discovering the novels.

God Help the Child by Tony Morrison

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a…

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