BookPage is available compliments of your library; it is a 32-page newsletter published monthly about the latest books available from publishers with interviews, features, reviews, columns, and departments.  The October issue celebrates 30 years of publication.  Copies are available at both circulation desks.  Readers will find BookPage is a great way to keep up with the monthly onslaught of new books as well as a handy means of identifying new authors and selections.

           

BookPage by the numbers reveals that 124 books are delivered each day and that they have interviewed 1,766 authors.  This issue features an interview with Esi Edugyan whose book, “Washington Black,” has been garnering some spectacular reviews and was long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.  It is the story of a young slave, Washington Black, in Barbados in the 1830s who is “loaned” to an eccentric naturalist.  Washington travels across the planet until he is freed.  A talented artist his relationship with his owner is complicated as Washington reveals what it is like to be a slave and to be freed.

           

Susan Orlean writes a book any librarian will recommend, “The Library Book,” which focuses on a fire in 1986 that burned the Los Angeles Central Library for seven hours destroying or damaging more than a million books.  Her story has been compared to a whodunit as she investigates the disaster described by a fireman as “looking into the bowels of hell.”

           

BookPage has numerous regular columns on cooking, mysteries, audiobooks, romance, lifestyles and book clubs.  It also contains pages of reviews of fiction, non-fiction, children’s and teen books.

 

Just like political ads and commercials, we must list a disclaimer; the library does not have the funds to buy every book shown in BookPage nor can it guarantee that the books discussed will actually be available since publishers frequently delay publication.