Mike Peed

A grieving Italian man discovers the redemptive power of soccer.

New books by Jessie Burton, Alix Christie, Rosie Thomas and Katy Simpson Smith.

“The Brethren,” published in France in 1977, is the first of 13 volumes detailing more than a century of French history and known as “Fortunes of France.”

An Edwardian man is sent into exile on the Canadian plains when his secret gay life is exposed.

Four new novels introduce readers to the multigenerational struggles of fictional families.

Three novels show that summer escapes, whether to seaside cottages or the great cities of Europe, rarely avoid the turmoil their characters have fled.

In Phil Bildner’s “A High Five for Glenn Burke,” the inventor of the world’s most popular celebratory gesture helps a budding baseball player accept himself for who he is.

Three new story collections explore the vagaries of daily struggles.

Books by Elvira Lindo, Blair Hurley, Ramona Ausubel and Nathacha Appanah take on crises of kinship.

Ella Jenkins, Musician Who Found an Audience in Children, Dies at 100