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A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “The Seventh Veil of Salome,” follows strivers in 1950s Hollywood competing for a place in an industry that does not embrace them.

In her corrective “The Missing Thread,” the classical historian Daisy Dunn paints a fuller picture of the ancient world.

In “The Movement,” Clara Bingham captures the years 1963-73 in the voices of the women who lived it.

In “I Am on the Hit List,” Rollo Romig explores the political world of Gauri Lankesh.

Two new books look at how horses and primates helped each other grow from skittish little mammals to conquerors of the world.

She was already a prominent hostess in the nation’s capital when her uninhibited, best-selling 1973 memoir, “Laughing All the Way,” made her a star.

Zach Williams makes his impressive debut with an unnerving and surreal collection of stories.

In “Paris 1944,” Patrick Bishop tells the story of the German occupation during World War II, with equal attention to French resisters and collaborators.

In her new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold chronicles the fate of an idealistic congregation fractured by internal divisions.