Did you know that Cornell has an online book club? Check it out!<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For more titles by Big Red authors, peruse our previous round-ups<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you published a book you’d like to submit? Scroll down for details!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rahanna Bisseret Martinez \u201926<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Still an undergrad, Bisseret Martinez\u2014a sophomore Hotelie<\/a>\u2014already has an impressive culinary r\u00e9sum\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After taking second place on the first season of \u201cTop Chef Junior,\u201d the California native went on to compete on \u201cGuy\u2019s Grocery Games\u201d and to intern in such kitchens as Chez Panisse, Dominique Ansel Bakery, Emeril\u2019s, and Wolfgang Puck\u2014as well as to contribute recipes to the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, the \u201cToday\u201d show, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Her debut cookbook<\/a> offers more than 70 dishes touching on a wide variety of global cuisines. They include masa doughnuts with Earl Grey glaze (Mexico), frijoles negros<\/em> (Cuba), dry-fried green beans (China), Dungeness crab tinola (the Philippines), and jerk eggplant steaks (Jamaica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBisseret Martinez\u2019s youthful enthusiasm permeates each page, with her passion for exploring her culinary heritage mixing perfectly with her curiosity for international ingredients and techniques,\u201d says Library Journal<\/em>, adding: \u201cWith enthusiasm and technical skill, Bisseret Martinez reminds cooks to approach food with curiosity and joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan Sinykin, PhD \u201915<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBook lovers curious about how the proverbial sausage gets made will want to check this out,\u201d says Publishers Weekly<\/em> of this volume<\/a> from Columbia University Press. Sinykin, an assistant professor<\/a> of English at Emory University, explores (in the words of the subtitle) \u201chow conglomeration changed the publishing industry and American literature\u201d\u2014tracing the modern book business from its clubby and genteel midcentury roots to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBefore conglomeration, Sinykin asserts, writing a book \u2018was a completely different experience,'” the New Yorker<\/em> observes in a review.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Once, a would-be novelist\u2019s chances of being published depended on \u2018how easily you could get your book in the right editor\u2019s hands.\u2019 As the number of those involved in publication expanded, authors had to meet new criteria. \u2018Could marketers see a market? What would the chain bookbuyers think? Could publicists picture your face on TV, your voice on the radio? Could agents sniff subsidiary rights? \u2026 Would it work in audio? On the big screen?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kate St. Vincent Vogl \u201987<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Another recent book co-authored by Vogl<\/a> delved into the experiences of the first female referee of an NFL game. Here, she again tells the real-life story<\/a> of a woman in a traditionally male sphere: Louise Scherbyn, who founded the Women\u2019s International Motorcycle Association after learning to ride in the early 1930s\u2014an era when ladies weren\u2019t even supposed to wear pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis\u2014this<\/em>\u2014is the feeling to remember when others question her, when they try to stop her vocally, forcefully,\u201d says the description of Scherbyn\u2019s first ride.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe will ride hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles through her lifetime to feel this sense of freedom again and again, this power to cut through where others cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Vogl took over the book project from her co-author, a friend who was unable to finish it due to terminal cancer.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat comes through the pages is an engrossing tale of Louise\u2019s challenging of rules, confronting traditions, and protesting ideas about the \u2018fairer sex,\u2019\u201d says a review in the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies<\/em>, adding: \u201cThe authors take great care to pave the road of Louise\u2019s journey, illustrating it through thick description, dynamic narrative, adroit motorcycle discourse, and incredible photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Danielle Arigoni, MRP \u201997<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n While the dangers of climate change are becoming increasingly well known and well publicized, Arigoni argues in this nonfiction work<\/a> that one aspect is largely ignored by planners and the media: how people are impacted differently based on their age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe reality is that older adults\u2014generally speaking, people over 65\u2014are disproportionately impacted by extreme temperatures, wildfire smoke, flooding and sea level rise, and more frequent and intense hurricanes,\u201d she writes. <\/p>\n<\/div> \u201cOlder adults represent 80% of the 12,000 people who die each year from heat-related illnesses and are three to four times more likely than younger people to die in climate-fueled disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The managing director<\/a> for policy and solutions at National Housing Trust, Arigoni formerly served as AARP\u2019s director of livable communities and as director of HUD\u2019s Office of Economic Resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe spotlights dozens of sensible age-friendly policy ideas for public health, land use, and disaster preparedness,\u201d says a Publishers Weekly<\/em> review, adding: \u201cThis detailed report paints a dire portrait of a vulnerable cohort. Policymakers should take note.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n D. Dina Friedman <\/strong>\u201979, BA \u201978<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Friedman\u2019s previous books<\/a> include Escaping Into the Night<\/em>, a young-adult novel about a Jewish girl who flees a Polish ghetto before its residents are deported, hiding in the woods with others who are scrambling to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this collection of 14 short stories<\/a>, the author explores the lives of people\u2014mainly women\u2014of varying backgrounds, many at moments of change or personal crisis. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a character who, seeking a better life for her daughter, sends the girl across the U.S.-Mexico border by herself; another who goes to India on something of a pilgrimage to atone for having accidently killed an Indian-American pedestrian with her car; another who, having been deserted by her husband, is trying to make ends meet by renting out rooms, and comes into conflict with a tenant due to a bedbug infestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy sister, Jessica, is a drug addict,\u201d says the narrator of a story titled \u201cHappily Ever After,\u201d going on to observe: \u201cShe lives in subway tunnels when she isn\u2019t in jail or rehab. I\u2019ve tried taking her in. I\u2019ve tried giving her money, but I may as well send the bucks directly to her drug dealer. There\u2019s only one thing my sister and I agree on: our mother is not to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anne Foster, PhD \u201995<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor as long as there has been recorded history, people have been taking substances to alter their mood, help them relieve pain, and, they long believed, connect to higher or greater powers,\u201d Foster writes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn every culture, people sought out those plants that could be eaten or smoked to calm them down, give them visions, or speed up their heart rate and brain function.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this volume<\/a> from Duke University Press, Foster offers an overview of the U.S.\u2019s ongoing, deeply fraught efforts to interdict illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a campaign that stretches back to the early 20th century, punctuated by movements to double down on punishment, to advocate for legalization, or to treat addiction as a medical issue rather than a criminal one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne goal of this book is for readers to reexamine their own assumptions about not only how and why people take drugs but the kinds of policies that would best control drug use to those that are perhaps beneficial, or at the least less harmful,\u201d Foster, an associate professor<\/a> of history at Indiana State University, writes in the introduction. \u201cThe problem is a complex one, and the more people who think deeply about it, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Classic by a Cornellian<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Thomas Perry \u201969<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Perry is the prolific, bestselling author<\/a> of several mystery series, including one starring Jane Whitefield, a Native American woman who helps people disappear from dangerous situations. 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