The buzz: If there ever were a time when we needed this book for perspective, this is it. Peter Furtado, former editor of History Today, gathers accounts of the ravages that past ones have caused, how people survived them - and what you can do to protect yourself. What it’s about: The coronavirus pandemic, of course, isn’t the first that people have faced. ‘Plague, Pestilence, and Pandemic’ by Peter Furtado The buzz: “The novel satisfies like a summer blockbuster, nearly demands you stay until the final scenes and the lights come up,” a USA Today review says. What it’s about: Movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is sharing the long drive home to Ohio with a man she just met - whom she starts to suspect might be the Campus Killer, who murdered her best friend. The buzz: “Readers will certainly come away with renewed appreciation for the ways in which insects use mimicry, deceit and poison to survive,” the Washington Post wrote. What it’s about: Natural History describes this as an insect version of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” that, for us humans, is filled with “well-told stories that illustrate the complex interrelations of species and the creative dynamics of evolution.” University of California Press, nonfiction, $19.95 ‘How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back’ by Gilbert Waldbauer The buzz: Easy-to-follow recipes and grilling hacks to make your veggies fool (or at least perplex) the palates of meat-lovers.
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What it’s about: The host of several PBS TV series on barbecuing puts everything you need to know in one handy place to make this summer a great one for grilling vegetables and smoking them, too. ‘How to Grill Vegetables’ by Steven Raichlen The buzz: The New York Times called it a “superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Daley using “the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway in the 1960s as an opportunity to create a durable barrier between the traditionally Irish white neighborhoods on the western side of the city’s South Side and the Black neighborhoods to the east.” What it’s about: Explores ways in which transportation has been used to foster discrimination against Blacks, touching briefly on subjects of particular Chicago interest including the NAACP’s fight against bus discrimination in the 1930s, the lack of affordable parking for urban residents and the late Mayor Richard J. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, nonfiction, $35 Here’s the lowdown on some recently released books that are worth a read.