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“Hard Girls,” by J. Robert Lennon, delves into family lives built on deception and abandonment.

In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator.

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In Sarah Ruiz-Grossman’s debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” the lives of a disparate group of people are critically linked by a terrifying blaze.

In her powerful new memoir, the author examines a life composed of conflicting identities — and fierce, contradictory desires.

The French president’s decision avoided a standoff and brought relief to the sellers who have long operated in the heart of the capital.

A story collection from Diane Oliver, who died at 22, locates the strength in Black families surviving their separate but equal surroundings.

A devastating 2020 fire on the island of Lesbos is the springboard for a meditation on origin stories, borders and migration in Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins.”

One of the first quadriplegic Harvard graduates, she became an author, professor and powerful voice for disabled people.

In “Smoke and Ashes,” Amitav Ghosh sources the colonial roots of a crisis.