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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the August 13th issue include:


The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, by Julia Stuart. Doubleday. Print length: 304 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "History buffs, animal lovers, and simply the tenderhearted will swoon over this captivating story." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (12 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy job living and working in the tourist attraction in present-day London. Among the eccentric characters who call the Tower’s maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Tower’s Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just found out she’s pregnant; portly Valerie Jennings, who is falling for ticket inspector Arthur Catnip; the lifelong bachelor Reverend Septimus Drew, who secretly pens a series of principled erot­ica; and the philandering Ravenmaster, aiming to avenge the death of one of his insufferable ravens. When Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interest­ing. ...a magical, wholly original novel whose irresistible characters will stay with you long after you turn the stunning last page." - Amazon.

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, by Mary Roach. W. W. Norton & Company. Print length: 334 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "...truly funny look at the less majestic aspects of the space program..." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $11.69. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity, Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the somewhat staid world of science writing, showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers, ectoplasm, or sex. In Packing for Mars, Roach tackles the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inquisitive (Why is it impolite for astronauts to float upside down during conversations? Just how smelly does a spacecraft get after a two week mission?), and she eagerly seeks out the stories that don't make it onto NASA's website- - from SPCA-certified space suits for chimps, to the trial-and-error approach to crafting menus during the space program's early years (when the chefs are former livestock veterinarians, taste isn't high on the priority list). Packing for Mars is a book for grownups who still secretly dream of being astronauts..." - Lynette Mong.

The I Hate to Cook Book: 50th Anniversary Edition, by Peg Bracken. Grand Central Publishing. Print length: 224 p. NONFICTION. EW's slant: "...its appeal seems timeless. I made that stroganoff in 25 minutes flat." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (17 reviews). Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Philosopher's Chowder. Skinny Meatloaf. Fat Man's Shrimp. Immediate Fudge Cake. These are just a few of the beloved recipes from Peg Bracken's classic I Hate to Cook Book. Written in a time when women were expected to have full, delicious meals on the table for their families every night, Peg Bracken offered women who didn't revel in this obligation an alternative: quick, simple meals that took minimal effort but would still satisfy."
"Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest." - Peg Bracken.

You Lost Me There, by Rosecrans Baldwin. Riverhead. Print length: 304 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...beautiful, brainy, offbeat first novel." Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (2 reviews). Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Months after his wife, Sara, is killed in a car accident, Dr. Victor Aaron is still in the throes of mourning, although he has rather peculiar ways of showing it. By day, Aaron functions as a dedicated lab rat, heading groundbreaking research and trolling for corporate grants. By night, he conducts a sexually intense but ultimately unsatisfying affair with a considerably younger graduate student named Regina, whom he pursues to the point of stalking. Further complicating his recovery are his weekly command-performance dinners with his wife's elderly aunt Betsy and the sudden appearance of his goddaughter, Cornelia, who moves in with him while interning at a local restaurant. Amid the chaos, Aaron spends his insomnia-fueled nights combing through Sara's belongings until the discovery of a series of disturbing notes, in which she chronicled the tumultuous years of their marriage, sends him into further despair. ...a capricious, poignant, yet oddly perceptive account of the quixotic nature of relationships and the fallacies of memory. - Carol Haggas for Booklist.