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In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a boneyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.

Cynthia Carr’s compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose “very existence was radical.”

Annabelle Tometich’s “The Mango Tree” provides an unvarnished look at her mother, who shot a BB gun at the truck of a purported fruit thief.

“Table for Two” is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals.

In Carys Davies’s latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.

The micro becomes macro in Tal Danino’s surreal, mesmerizing photographs of bacteria.

That kids’ classic “completely changed my life,” says the former football star, now the University of Colorado’s “Coach Prime.” His new book is “Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field.”

In his unsparing novel “Wolf at the Table,” Adam Rapp observes a household in denial about the dark force growing up in its midst.

In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.

In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more.