Here are some of the tastier morsels coming out this Thanksgiving week:
* The UltraMetabolism Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes that Will Turn on Your Fat-Burning DNA by Mark Hyman, M.D. (Scribner, $29.95) features recipes for each phase of the diet.
* Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen (Random House, $14.95) tells the tale of the author’s black lab, Beau, in trademark heart-rending Quindlen style. Example, when she starts to realize Beau's best years may be behind him: "The eyes and ears may have gone, but the nose was eternal. And the tail. The tail still wagged, albeit at half-staff. When it stops, I thought more than once, then we’ll know." For anyone who loved John Grogan's Marley, any of Jon Katz's books, or even Old Yeller.
* Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin (Scribner, $25). We knew Mr. Martin could write; witness Shopgirl (the novella, please, not the dreadful film version). This fascinating memoir chronicles his early influences and later triumphs, and includes juicy sidebars on some of the comedy world's biggest names.
* An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck (Threshold, $26). The conservative TV talk-show and radio host slams political correctness, poor people (just lazy, he says) and, especially, Al Gore, the author of that similarly named book. Amusing, if a little scary, and the perfect holiday gift for your friends who think global warming is just a big alarmist plot.
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