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Modern Sauces: More than 150 Recipes for Every Cook, Every Day (Cookbook, $2.99)
- By Martha Holmberg
- 4.5/5 stars with 162 reviews
- More than 100 recipes for sauces range from standards such as béarnaise, hollandaise, and marinara to modern riffs such as maple-rum sabayon, caramelized onion coulis, and coconut-curry spiked chocolate sauce. An additional 55 recipes use the sauces to their greatest advantage, beautifying pasta, complementing meat or fish, or elevating a cake to brilliant. Modern Sauces is both an inspiration and a timeless reference on kitchen technique.
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home (Memoir, $0.99)
- By Leah Lax
- 4.3/5 stars with 160 reviews
- Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and hasidic motherhood as, all the while, creative, sexual, and spiritual longings tremble beneath the surface.
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The Garden of the Gods (The Corfu Trilogy) (Memoir, $1.99)
- By Gerald Durrell
- 4.6/5 stars with 159 reviews
- Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves and across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession . . . causing hilarity and mayhem in his ever-tolerant family.
