Upcoming Events
Through April 30
20% off all used biographies
Sunday, May 4, 3 - 5 PM
Book Swap
Meet, greet, talk books with fellow book lovers. Exchange books if you wish. The Book People Book Swap takes place every first Sunday of the Month.
- No age limit for people nor books.
- Swapping books is not a requirement.
- Having an interest in books IS A REQUIREMENT.
For further information, please call us at 804-288-4346.
Monday, May 17, 2 - 4 PM
Dan Walker
Huckleberry Finn in Love and War: The Lost Journals
Dan Walker answers the questions Mark Twain avoided: What if Huck Finn carries out his promise, at the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to "light out for the Territory"? Twain himself got sixty-two pages into the prairie and lost interest. But what if Huck, Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and the rest are caught up?as they surely would be?in the crisis of the Civil War? What choices will they make when history calls? For the boy who once said, "All right, then, I?ll go to Hell," what might that mean in the Valley of Mexico, parted from the love of his life, apparently forever, or behind rebel lines in the wilderness of central Virginia, with the duty to kill or capture old friends on the other side? How would our ageless boy do in such trials? Hell might be preferable.
About Book People
We are an old–fashioned book shop which has been serving readers around the world from the West End of Richmond, Virginia for over 20 years. Visitors to the store are free to explore our four rooms and browse through 20,000 titles in stock—half new and half a combination of used and collectible volumes—all within a 1200 square–foot house. We offer...
- PERSONAL SERVICE, above all else
- New and Used books
- Fiction and Non–Fiction
- An extensive Foreign Language section
- Special Orders from publishers large and small
- Out–of–Print Book Search
- Domestic and international Mail Orders
Book People is located just south of the corner of Granite and Patterson Avenues with ample parking to the side of the store.
We special–order books, read books and have an excellent track record of locating out–of–print books for our customers. Both in–store shoppers and telephone orders are welcome. We delight in face–to–face transactions, but attend to domestic and international phone–in mail orders promptly as well. Our inventory is NOT computerized, apart from around 1,400 collectible titles listed with AbeBooks. We are proud to rely on our brains instead.