Holly Nadler’s feel-good memoir The Hobo Diaries: Down and Out on Martha’s Vineyard” is a bright and sunny reading experience, but it starts with a straightforward horror-story scenario.

It's been 402 years since English religious pilgrims settled in Plymouth at the native Wampanoag town of Patuxet.

I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me is a collection of short misadventures experienced by Jason Gay and his wife Bessie and their two sons, Jesse and his younger brother Jojo.

Douglas Cabral, at the beginning of his new book My Shenandoah, freely admits that he is not an unbiased biographer of Vineyard sailing captain Robert Douglas.

Michael Hill's new biography, Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald, is a funny, genial book, much like its subject.

At the beginning of Elisa Speranza’s fiction debut The Italian Prisoner, young Rose Marino is poised on the brink of committing a daring social act.