Hana (right) and Sarah (left) show off their best picks! by Hana Boxberger Awards season is coming up, and while the movie world and the music world are looking to the Oscars and the Grammys, we in the book world...
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ARE YOU READY FOR BANNED BOOKS WEEK? Consider yourself warned, we have some seriously dangerous reading in store for Banned Books Week, September 27th - October 3rd! This year's event focuses on Young Adult books, a genre steeped with remarkable...
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We are fortunate to have an amazing array of talented writers in our community, and no one appreciates this vibrant, creative crowd more than the folks here at Village Books. Each one has an interesting story to tell, so we...
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John Vaillant speaks to the crowd on Feb. 7. We've called our event series “Literature Live” for a long time. It's been called that for so long, in fact, that it's easy enough to forget the series has a name...
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It's difficult sometimes to draw a line between books in the Speculative Fiction genre and novels that fall under the umbrella of General Fiction. When there are dragons, magic and sorcery, stories are a little bit easier to put into...
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One of our sales reps, Cindy, recently sent me a copy of a book that’s coming out in November called All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews. “I loved this book,” she said, “And think it’s one you’ll like too.”...
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Honestly, I have never been a fan of the "teen rock star" theme in some YA literature. I mean, most of us wanted to get out of our hometown and be successful after high school, but having never cultivated an...
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Rincewind the wizard isn’t really a wizard—he dropped out of wizarding school when a powerful spell embedded itself in his mind so that there was no room to learn any others. His ridiculous luck pulls him into an adventure acting...
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Kristopher grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, THE UNCHANGEABLE SPOTS OF LEOPARDS, was published by Viking/Penguin...
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(Christina hard at work...kind of.) What are you currently reading? I'm reading Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites by Kate Christensen. I've been reading it on my bus ride to work, though it makes me hungry with all...
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