Puss in Boots, Ed McBain (Holt), is...

Puss in Boots, Ed McBain (Holt), is “a throat-tightening, skin-crawling Ed McBain excursion through the world of independent porno production and murder . . . a raunchy, fast-paced book . . . that may find you forgetting to eat your turkey on sourdough or obliviously holding up your queue at the cashier’s window” (Skip Cooley Pedigo).

Traitors and Heroes: A Lawyer’s Memoir, Martin Garbus (Atheneum), is “a superb memoir of his life’s work as a human rights activist. . . . (The book) is also a thoughtful reflection of the nature and evolution of the high crime of treason” (William Blum).

Hickory Cured, Douglas C. Jones (Holt). “The rare skill demonstrated in this collection is the steady humor and its exposed underbelly, bittersweet, if not downright sad. You’d be hard pressed to find a better account of whistle-stop America 50 years ago” (C. A. Wedlan).

Letters to Ms., 1972-1987, edited by Mary Thom, introduction by Gloria Steinem (Holt), “is a lively and engaging collection culled from the enormous volume of mail sent to the magazine since its founding” (Mary Ellen Donovan).