b'Bakery-Style Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins BookGet ready for the Book Makes 6 jumbo or 12 standard-size muffins.Report Festival with these reads!The muffins keep well for a few days, wrappedor stored in a covered container. Pride by Ibi Zoboi Ingredients: Zoboi remixes Jane Austens classic novel Pride and Prejudice for the 21st century, setting it in Bushwick with Streusel Crumble Topping: characters of color. Proud of her Haitian-Dominican 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted heritage and her melting-pot neighborhood, Zuri Benitez is nervous about what gentrification will mean, so when 3/4 cup all-purpose flour the wealthy Darcy family moves into the renovated mini-1/2 cup light brown sugar mansion across the street, a contemporary drama of manners emerges, with plenty of nods toward the source 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt material.Muffins: Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger8 ounces strawberries, hulled and chopped MIT professor Helen Clapp is a celebrated physicist study-2 stalks rhubarb (6 - 8 ounces), diced ing five-dimensional space-time, on the verge of a major 1/4 cup cornstarch scientific breakthrough, when she begins receiving texts from her college friend, who died of lupus earlier that year. 2 tablespoons light brown sugar Her inability to explain why shes receiving these texts, 1 teaspoon lemon juice which could only have come from her friend, leads Helen 2 cups all-purpose flour to begin asking questions about loss and love that cant rely strictly on science for answers. A cerebral but heartfelt 1/2 cup granulated sugar novel, like the best of Richard Powers.1 teaspoon baking powder K: A History of Baseball in 10 Pitches by Tyler 1 teaspoon baking soda Kepner 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt As a kid, New York Times reporter Kepner dreamed Grated zest from 1 orange or lemon of being a Hall-of-Fame pitcher. He became a nation-1 egg, lightly beaten ally renowned sportswriter instead, and he uses his access to speak to hundreds of baseballs best about 1/4 cup canola oil the pitches that have defined the game since its incep-2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted tion, from the foundational fastball and curveball, to the rarely-used knuckleball and dearly-departed spitball.1 cup buttermilk2 teaspoons vanilla extract Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary NorrisInstructions: Between You & Me established Norris as Americas 1.Preheat the oven to 400 degrees with a rack positioned in the middle.most famous copy editor. With her latest, the self-pro-Oil a 6-cup muffin tin and fill with muffin liners or tulip-shapedclaimed Comma Queen explores her late-life obsession parchment liners. with all things Greek. From the language to the wine to 2.Place the ingredients for the streusel in a bowl and mix until it formsthe men (!), Norris writes with verve about a culture that large, moist crumbs. Set aside. influences our own in many ways. This is Eat, Pray, Love for the grammar geeks among us. 3.Put the strawberries, rhubarb, cornstarch, brown sugar and lemonThe Apology by Eve Enslerjuice in a bowl and gently stir to combine. Set aside while you mix the rest of the batter. Twenty years after her revolutionary play The Vagina 4.In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, bak- Monologues, Ensler pens an equally provocative, ing soda, salt and grated zest. Make a well in the center and stir intimely book. The Apology is what Ensler never re-the egg, oil, butter, buttermilk and vanilla. Mix until the batter justceived from her father after years of childhood sexual comes together and the flour is incorporated. abuse. Writing it in the voice of her father she ends up reclaiming her story and finding the inner peace thats 5.Divide the batter evenly into the muffin cups. Spoon the strawberryeluded her. Ensler will kick off the Book Festival on mixture evenly over the batter (about 1/2 cup for each cup), then topFriday, June 7, with a discussion to benefit the South with the streusel crumbs (2 tablespoons or so per cup). Orange and Maplewood Public Libraries.6.Bake 22 - 27 minutes, until the muffins are golden brown on top andSouth Orange Public Library | 65 Scotland Roada toothpick inserted into the center of the muffins comes out withSouth Orange, NJ 07079 | 973-762-0230only a few moist crumbs. sopl.orgbook report /31'