New & Recommended

July 27, 2008

Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
By David Maraniss
A satisfying blend of exhaustive research and well-paced narration (Simon & Schuster, $26.95).

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century
By Alice Fulton
Beautiful connected tales about several generations of Catholic women in upstate New York (Norton, $23.95).

The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
By David A. Price
The history of the firm whose string of blockbusters has sparked a renaissance in Hollywood animation (Knopf, $27.95).

Cost
By Roxana Robinson
A family struggles with a son's addiction in this exploration of the nature and limits of responsibility (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25).

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
By David Wroblewski
Set in rural Wisconsin, this first novel about a boy and his dog draws on "Hamlet" and other classical sources (Ecco, $25.95).

Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe.