BookPeople January Event Press Releases

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011                                       mandy@bookpeople.com   512-472-5050


HEATHER DONAHUE, STAR OF THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, COMES TO BOOKPEOPLE

HEATHER DONAHUE, star of the movie that was an international cult sensation, The Blair Witch Project, will speak & sign her brand new memoir about living on a marijuana farm post-Hollywood, Growgirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot (Gotham Books; $26.00; 1/5/12) at BookPeople on Friday, January 13th, 7pm.

After starring in The Blair Witch Project-the tiny indie film- turned-blockbuster that Roger Ebert named one of the ten Most Influential Movies of the Century-she became a household name. But the afterglow of the movie waned, her acting career stalled, and she feared the day her epitaph would read, "Here Lies the Girl from The Blair Witch Project." Determined to start a new life, she left most remnants of the old one in the desert, meditated on things for a few days, then followed her brand-new boyfriend to her brand-new life- growing pot.

This event is free and open to the public. All books signed at BookPeople events must be purchased from BookPeople. For more information visit www.bookpeople.com

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MYSTERYPEOPLE WELCOMES BESTSELLING CRIME FICTION AUTHOR TAYLOR STEVENS TO BOOKPEOPLE

MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore-within-a-bookstore, will welcome bestselling crime fiction author TAYLOR STEVENS to BookPeople to speak and sign the second book in her Vanessa Michael Munroe series, The Innocent (Crown; $26.00; 12/27/11) at BookPeople on Wednesday, January 18th, 7pm.

Born into the Children of God, raised in communes across the globe, and denied an education beyond the sixth grade, Taylor Stevens broke free of the cult in order to follow her own dreams. She now lives in Texas, and has already made it to the New York Times bestseller list with her first Vanessa Michael Munroe novel, The Informationist, which quickly became a top seller in MysteryPeople after Stevens' first visit to the store last year. The Innocent is the highly anticipated follow-up and MysteryPeople is thrilled to welcome her back to BookPeople to share it with her fans.

This event is free and open to the public. All books signed at BookPeople events must be purchased from BookPeople. For more information visit www.bookpeople.com

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AWARD-WINNING LITERARY NOVELIST BEN MARCUS TO PRESENT NEW WORK AT BOOKPEOPLE

Multi-award winning literary novelist BEN MARCUS will speak and sign his new novel, The Flame Alphabet (Knopf; $25.95; 1/17/12) at BookPeople on Tuesday, January 24th, 7pm.

Ben Marcus is widely regarded as being at the forefront of American fiction, pushing the possibility of storytelling in daring new directions with his books Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String, and with stories published in such magazines as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, and Tin House. He is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A new novel from Ben Marcus is an event, and BookPeople is proud to bring Marcus to Austin to present this latest work, which Publisher's Weekly called, "...an audacious work of fiction," in a starred review. 

This event is free and open to the public. All books signed at BookPeople events must be purchased from BookPeople. For more information visit www.bookpeople.com

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MYSTERYPEOPLE WELCOMES INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING BRITISH THRILLER AUTHOR R. J. ELLORY TO BOOKPEOPLE

MysteryPeople, BookPeople's mystery bookstore within-a-bookstore, will welcome award-winning and bestselling British thriller writer R. J. ELLORY to speak and sign his novel, which has already won numerous awards, A Quiet Vendetta (Overlook Press; $25.95; 1/5/12) at BookPeople on Friday, January 27th, 7pm.

R. J. Ellory's thrillers have earned him international recognition and a long list of awards around the globe. The bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels was the Strand Magazine's Thriller of the Year, nominated for the Barry Award, and a finalist for the SIBA Award. A Simple Act of Violence won the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award. Overlook Press has brought his books to the States, and MysteryPeople is pleased to bring him to Austin to introduce A Quiet Vendetta, which Kirkus Reviews calls, "An absorbing crime novel…a brilliantly conceived tale of greed, politics, family loyalties, and vengeance."

This event is free and open to the public. All books signed at BookPeople events must be purchased from BookPeople. For more information visit www.bookpeople.com

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR DANIEL HANDLER & ACCLAIMED ARTIST MAIRA KALMAN BRING THE 'WHY WE BROKE UP' PROJECT TO BOOKPEOPLE

DANIEL HANDLER, better known to many as Lemony Snicket, and artist MAIRA KALMAN have teamed up for the Why We Broke Up project (http://whywebrokeupproject.tumblr.com/), inspired by the new novel written by Handler and illustrated by Kalman, Why We Broke Up (Little, Brown and Company; $19.99; 12/27/11). Handler and Kalman will appear together at BookPeople to speak about the project and sign books on Saturday, January 28, 7:30pm.

Why We Broke Up is a novel in the form of a letter from Min Green to a boy named Ed Slaterton. In the story, the letter comes with a box full of objects that represent Green and Slaterton's relationship, each one rendered as a beautiful illustration by Maira Kalman. The result is a highly original, heartfelt look at how break ups happen, how much they hurt, and how to get over them. While written with teen readers in mind, Why We Broke Up is sure to transcend ages and hit home with anyone who has suffered the agony of love gone amiss. As Handler and Kalman dug deep into their personal break up histories to write and illustrate this new book, they were inspired to give other break up survivors a place to vent their experiences and share their stories of heartbreak: http://whywebrokeupproject.tumblr.com/.

This event is free and open to the public. All books signed at BookPeople events must be purchased from BookPeople. For more information visit www.bookpeople.com

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