Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, is coming this fall.

The lazy days of summer may be here but the publishing world never sleeps. New cookbooks, diet books and even a memoir are on their way.

Here’s a preview.

Soon to be published cookbooks include The Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook. This follows the concept that some foods contribute to bloated bellies, which many doctors now acknowledge is a danger sign for serious health problems, including heart trouble.

It arrives Aug. 18 from a Prevention editor and a much-degreed dietician with the promise that a four-day jumpstart will keep you motivated with quick, noticeable results—losing up to 7 pounds and up to 5 inches from their waist in just 96 hours—with no exercise required.

I guess we’ll see how that works.

The history and legends of Beavertail Lighthouse here in Rhode Island are featured in The American Lighthouse Cookbook: The Best Recipes and Stories from America’s Shorelines (coming from Sourcebooks in September). Becky Sue Epstein and Ed Jackson are the authors. They cite the lore that one of Captain Kidd’s last feasts likely took place there in 1696.

A Portuguese-inspired dinner, a homage to the fisherman who immigrated to the area, is paired with the entry. It features recipes for stuffies, jonnycakes, kale soup and succotash (because the Narragansett Indians taught the early Colonists how to make it, say the authors).

I’ve seen the advance copy of Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich. We love her, and her recipes are something we can cook without angst. But you’ll have to wait until October for this cookbook. Curse the holiday book market for making you suffer.

Frank Bruni, the restaurant critic for the New York Times, has penned a memoir called Born Round: The Secret Hisory of a Full-Time Eater. The cover photo is Frank as a child. Do you think the restaurants in New York will hire someone to age the photo digitally so they can spot him the second he crosses the threshold?

This is the description from the publisher: “Born Round traces the highly unusual path Bruni traveled to become a restaurant critic; it is the captivating account of an unpredictable journalistic ride from an intern’s desk at Newsweek to a dream job at The New York Times, as well as the brutally honest story of Bruni’s lifelong, often painful, struggle with food.”

The New York Times Magazine ran an excerpt on Sunday on the food struggle subject. It is indeed honest and painful to read as Bruni admits to suffering from bulimia both in childhood and in college.

We have to wait till next month for more from him.

Surprisingly, there are two raw food cookbooks just out. Living Raw Food was published a few weeks ago and Raw Family Signature Dishes: A Step-by-Step Guide to Essential Live-Food Recipes this week.

We all first heard about the value of uncooked food with Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha Jones on an episode of Sex and the City. It looked yucky and tasted worse, but Samantha fell for the waiter so she kept going back.

Here’s our chance to reconsider the concept, which is not such a bad one. The more you cook things, the more nutrients you lose.

The book promises mouth-watering rather than medicinal, simple rather than complicated. The recipes presented here include jams, scones, soup, crackers, nut milk, truffles, chocolate cake, mousse cake, and more.

There are two books for cooking for families: The Gastrokid Cookbook: Feeding a Foodie Family in a Fast Food World coming Aug. 10. How precious is this description: “Dedicated foodies Hugh Garvey and Matthew Yeomans saw no reason to abandon adventurous eating once they had kids. Between them, they and their wives now have four children under five — all of whom eat ‘adult’ fare and gladly try new foods.”

Who are those kids you ask? I want to know, too.

Then there’s The Vegetarian Kids’ Cookbook: Fresh, Fun Food Shown in 350 Step-By-Step Photographs also coming in August. No description. Perhaps that is for the best.

I can’t wait for 101 Things to do with a Toaster Oven. All I know is how to toast my mini-bagels for breakfast and brown my Stouffer’s Mac and Cheese when I’m feeling the great need for fast comfort food.

Recipes promised include: Lemon Poppy Seed Scones, Turkey Avocado Melts, Sweet Potato Oven Fries, Garlic Herb Pork Chops, Weeknight Ratatouille and Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake. Find it Aug. 1.

Finally, the need is huge for cookbooks for celiacs on limited diets. They will welcome The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook: Breakfasts, Entrees, and More when it arrives in bookstores on July 28.

gciampa@projo.com