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JBC Network author Louisa Shafia returns with her latest cookbook, The New Persian Kitchen (Ten Speed Press). If this one is anything like her last (she published the mouthwatering Lucid Food in 2009), you won't be disappointed. 

Tip: I was lucky enough to take a great cooking class with Louisa several years ago (and hoping for round two this year). If she's visiting a city near you, it's a must.

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Out this week: Ilan Mochari's debut novel Zinsky the Obscure. Read more about Ilan Mochari here and find the book's official website here.

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Michael Ruhlman's The Book of Schmaltz: Love Song of a Forgotten Fat, which is currently available for iPads, will be published as an old school (hardcover) cookbook by Little, Brown in August:

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JBC Network author Ramona Ausubel, whose debut novel No One is Here Except All of Us was one of my favorite book's of 2012, has a new book coming out next month from Riverhead! A Guide to Being Born is a collection of stories "that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition." To hold you over until May: 

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A new title pubbing from Harvard University Press in May, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food (Timothy D. Lytton), explores kosher food regulation. Read a Q&A with Lytton here.

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Last week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Rebecca Miller's new novel Jacob's Folly, "a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, [and] acting." Oh, and the main character, Jacob Cerf, an eighteenth-century Parisian Jew, has been reincarnated as a fly in the Long Island suburbs of twenty-first-century America. Read more about Jacob's Folly, and the influence of Kafka, over at NPR here, and check out Rebecca Miller's official website here.

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Not only does Ben Greenman have a great cover for his newest book, The Slippage: A Novel (pubbing from Harper Perennial on April 23rd), but an awesome website to boot. Spend some time catching up on all things Ben Greenman over there until you can get your hands on this beauty (and, just a guess, but I imagine the contents will give the cover a run for its money):

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The paperback edition of Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories will be published on March 5th by Knopf:

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In Sam Lipsyte's newest collection, The Fun Parts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), he brings to life a reality-brandishing monster preying on a boy's fantasy realm, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul, a doomsday hustler, and a grizzled male birth doula, among others. The Fun Parts will be published on March 5th.

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Originally published in Hebrew in Israel in 2010, The Girl With a Brave Heart: A Tale from Tehran (Rita Jahanforuz; Vali Mintzi, illus.) tells the story of a young girl growing up in Tehran. Barefoot Books will publish the title in English in March.

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