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In her new novel, “The Great Divide,” Cristina Henríquez tells the story of the forgotten lives behind the construction of the engineering marvel that cut a path between continents.

“Tell,” by Jonathan Buckley, is a missing-person mystery recounted in fragmentary anecdotes.

In a chronicle laced with memoir, Nancy A. Nichols explores how the automobile has provided both freedom and dangers for female motorists.

Chronicling the high-heeled path to drag-queen superstardom, the new memoir also reveals a celebrity infatuated with his sense of a special destiny.

Rachel Lyon’s novel “Fruit of the Dead” updates the Greek myth with a pharma tycoon who lures an aimless slacker to his private island.

A devastating diagnosis prompted a reporter to revisit his past — and repair his mistakes.

“Your Absence Is Darkness,” a novel by the Icelandic writer Jon Kalman Stefansson, is a complex history prompted by one man’s quest.

The star, whose show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has an international following, is one of the founders of a new online bookstore promoting underrepresented authors. The giveaways are part of its outreach.

After a career of framing the country’s past through the myths that inspire Americans to fight, kill and make money, Richard Slotkin wants to find a gentler story.

In her novel “Say Hello to My Little Friend,” Jennine Capó Crucet explores existential questions of isolation and belonging through two unlikely figures.