By Tom Clancy Putnam Adult, $28.95, 848 pages The campus is still hopping. And so are the Chinese. “Bitching Betty, the audio warning announcements delivered by a woman’s voice, too calm considering the news she delivered, came through Trash’s headset: “Altitude. Altitude.” …
By Nigel Pollard, Joanne Berry Thames & Hudson, $39.95, 240 pages Not only the legions of Rome but her co-evolving politics, organization and frontiers are lovingly detailed in this superlative volume. The authors progress cogently from the original, almost legendary, units of …
By Pat Crocker William Morrow, $30.00, 541 pages Pat Crocker’s achievements vis-à-vis food journalism are so extensive they would cost most of my available words. So leave it at the fact that the sheer professionalism and scope of this wonderful kitchen …
By Pat Crocker William Morrow, $30.00, 541 pages Pat Crocker’s achievements vis-à-vis food journalism are so extensive they would cost most of my available words. So leave it at the fact that the sheer professionalism and scope of this wonderful kitchen …
By Janet Evanovich, Dorien Kelly St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 310 pages All right, I have finally been caught reading a romance. But I have an excuse. I thought this would be salaciously funny like Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels. I wasn’t prepared …
By Edited by Pam Hoenig Oxmoor House, $24.95, 288 pages Heartland haute cuisine — cast iron cookery is as American as apple pie. And there is a cranberry apple pie in these pages! Ten by seven and a half inches, nicely …
By Ellise Pierce Running Press, $25.00, 324 pages Not only can this lady cook, she can write! Her background and obvious expertise as an author make this fine cookbook not only attractive and original, but a positive delight to read. This …
By Scott Weidensaul Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30.00, 445 pages Scott Weidensaul has spent years of research on this invaluable treatise. In offering a most coherent, if necessarily fragmentary, overview of the American frontier before it was “America,” from the 1500s to …
By Katharine Kerr Daw, $7.99, 336 pages Full disclosure: I expected to be giving a glowing review for Apocalypse to Go because of having delightedly reviewed the first Nola O’Grady novel. I was gobsmacked to discover that not only had I missed the …
By Penn Jillette Simon & Schuster, $24.99, 231 pages ISBN 9781451610369 This is not a simple book about the rationality of atheism. Oh, it makes cogent arguments for atheism and against the trap of religion, but it’s much richer than …
