The two young main characters in Nicole Galland’s boisterously winning new novel Boy are each at a kind of personal crossroads.

Julia Spiro’s third novel, Such a Good Mom, opens on deceptively conventional grounds.

On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.

The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan, Mariner Books 2024, 304 pages, $30.

The subject of West Tisbury resident Marc Favreau’s latest book for young adult readers is the surprise attack launched by Japan on the US Naval base at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor in 1941.

The title of Kate Feiffer’s new novel comes from an exercise recommended by Julia Cameron in her bestselling book The Artist’s Way.