New & Recommended

August 10, 2008

OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder - The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion
By Lucas Conley
A tartly written survey of the ubiquity of brand messages and their effect (PublicAffairs, $25).

An Expert in Murder
By Nicola Upson
>Novelist Josephine Tey is a character in this murder mystery, replete with red herrings and secret identities (Harper, $24.95).

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
Beautifully written connected tales about several generations of Catholic women (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).

Selected from books recently reviewed in the Globe.