Fagone, Jason. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies. Dey Street: HarperCollins. Jul. 2017. 320p. ISBN 9780062430489. $27.99. HISTORY Now that The Imitation Game has familiarized everyone with the concept of code-breaking, it’s time to step back to its origins during World War I. In 1912, while Shakespeare expert (and hence language wizard) Elizebeth Smith was working for an eccentric tycoon with ties to the government, she was introduced to both code-breaking and visionary cryptologist William Friedman, who became her husband. Journalist Fagone details Smith’s particular contributions to cryptology, which include helping to capture gangsters during Prohibition and exposing Nazi spies in South America. With a 50,000-copy first printing. Hayes, Elaine M. Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan. Ecco. Jul. 2017. 320p. ISBN 9780062364685. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062364708. BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC Sure, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Bud Powell had everything to do with the creation and promulgation of bebop, but let’s not forget husky-honey-voiced Sarah Vaughan, whose powerful influence resonated then and continues to resonate now. Vaughan expert Hayes offers a thoroughgoing life-and-art study of one of the jazz greats, who was also a mover and shaker in women’s and civil rights. With a 40,000-copy first printing. Livio, Mario Why?: What Makes Us Curious. S. & S. Jul. 2017. 256p. ISBN 9781476792095. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781476792125. SCIENCE A best-selling author whose Is God a Mathematician? served as the basis for the 2016 Emmy-nominated NOVA The Great Math Mystery, astrophysicist Livio gets to the heart of science and indeed all human endeavor by asking why we ask, Why? He considers polymaths like Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Feynman, plus others, like an astronaut with degrees in computer science, biology, literature, and medicine, to understand our hunger to know. With a six-city tour to Austin, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC. Scottoline, Lisa & Francesca Serritella. I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool. St. Martin’s. Jul. 2017. 320p. ISBN 9781250059963. $21.99; ebk. ISBN 9781466865266. CD: Macmillan Audio. RELATIONSHIPS The Edgar Award–winning Scottoline and her writer daughter, Serritella, have been investigating human foibles in a series that now reaches its eighth title (following I've Got Sand in All the Wrong Places). Expect more wit and wisdom; with library marketing. Shapiro, Laura. What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories. Viking. Jul. 2017. 320p. ISBN 9780525427643. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780698178946. Downloadable: Penguin Audio. COOKING/HISTORY What do Dorothy Wordsworth, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Braun, Barbara Pym, Helen Gurley Brown, and Edwardian-era Cockney caterer Rosa Lewis have in common? They all had interesting relationships to food that tell us more about them and about us. Fun reading from a James Beard Journalism Award winner. Steffens, Roger. So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley. Norton. Jul. 2017. 480p. ISBN 9780393058451. $29.95. MUSIC Bob Marley lovers, celebrate. Steffens, who owns the world’s biggest reggae archive and has traveled worldwide with a one-man multimedia show called The Life of Bob Marley, draws on 40 years of close-quarters interviews with Marley’s band members, family, lovers, and confidants to chronicle Marley’s life and art. A small-press edition of this book ran through two printings; here’s the bigtime.