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Off the Shelf: Want to Know the Latest on Books Out There? BookPage is for You and Your Library has It

By Sharon Saye on July 15, 2020 from Off the Shelf via Connect-Bridgeport.com

BookPage is available compliments of your library; it is a multi-page newsletter published monthly about the latest books available from publishers with interviews, features, reviews, columns, and departments.  The July issue is now displayed on the table in our front foyer right next to the bags for contactless pickup.  We have also placed some older issues there as well to give you ideas of what to request from us.
 
This issue is themed “Pages of Peril” and offers lots of suggestions for readers of thriller, and mysteries.  Their main interview is with Riley Sager entitled “All the Horrors of Home” where he discusses his latest book, “Home Before Dark.”  This is a supernatural story set in a remote area of Vermont in which Maggie Holt attempts to renovate a family home inherited from her father who wrote a book about it in which he and her family fled from the house after only 20 days because it was haunted.  Maggie does not believe his story and resolves to sell the house as a way of letting go of her past.  “Home Before Dark” challenges the reader to decide whose version of the story is the truth.
 
Other new books of horror that are reviewed in this issue are “Wonderland” by Zoje Stage and “Survivor Song” by Paul Tremblay.  The second book will either appeal to horror fans or not with its pandemic story in which victims attack and bite others; its heroine is pregnant, and she needs a rabies shot if she and her baby are to survive.  Julie Hale, the reviewer, says it “is a horror narrative of the highest order, and much of it feels eerily real in lights of the COVID-19 crisis.”
 
“Thrills for Every Reader” ranges the gamut from “The Girl from Widow Hills” by Megan Miranda to “A Royal Affair” by Allison Montclair.  True Crime memoirs include “The Book of Atlantis Black” by Betsy Bonner and “Mercy” by Marcia Trahan as well as two nonfiction books on scientific sleuthing, “The Kidnap Years” by David Stout and “18 Tiny Deaths” by Bruce Goldfarb.
 
On a lighter note, they recommend two mysteries that are “tough on crime, but sweet on dogs” including Spencer Quinn’s “Of Mutts and Men” and David Rosenfelt’s “Muzzled.”
 
There are columns on Lifestyles, Romance, Book Clubs, Audio, Summertime Romps, Up and Coming YA Authors and pages of reviews.  There is also a q&a with popular young adult author, Deb Caletti and a Meet with children’s author, Jessie Sima.
  
BookPage is a reader’s delight and is available free of charge.  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.    
 
 
 
 


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