Mike Peed

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

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

Three new story collections explore the vagaries of daily struggles.

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.

Four collections, in settings that range from Glasgow to an island in the Pacific Northwest, sketch troubled lives and a yearning for better times.

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

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

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

“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.”

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

A grieving Italian man discovers the redemptive power of soccer.

Being black, in America and Africa, draws a novelist’s scrutiny.

Two Kurdish brothers are forced to flee the ayatollah’s revolution in Laleh Khadivi’s novel.

The discovery of a long-lost manuscript reveals the fate of an ancient German kingdom in Caleb Carr’s epic fantasy.

Dry conditions across the country, including Long Island, are worrying the botanists closely monitoring the area’s six populations of sandplain gerardia.

In the course of one terrible year, a young man’s body, mind and heart are shattered by the savageries of love and war.

An American couple’s marriage spins out of control after they become proprietors of a moldering Irish local.

Fifteen years after the last installment, Tim Sandlin brings back Lydia Elkrunner and other characters from his series about GroVont, Wyo.

Jonathan Evison’s panoramic novel contrasts a group of visionary settlers with their pussyfooting descendants.

Justin Cronin’s dystopian epic imagines a military-engineered race of vampires unleashed on the world.