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Anxiety, making new friends, learning to share: These nine titles will prepare young readers for whatever their first day of school may have in store.

In “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party,” the science writer Edward Dolnick takes on the 19th-century discovery of dinosaur fossils: “What was it like to try to grapple with an idea that hadn’t occurred to anybody?”

Our columnist reviews August’s horror releases.

In “Never Saw Me Coming,” Tanya Smith tells of her life as a young financial criminal — and the harsh prison sentence that changed everything.

For Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translating together extended naturally from their relationship as husband and wife. Now, it is their life’s work.

The Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth’s latest novel to be translated into English, “If Only,” follows a decade-long affair between two married writers.

In Chelsea Bieker’s new novel, “Madwoman,” a woman is no longer able to keep the demons of her childhood out of her present.

Our columnist reviews books by Danica Nava, Courtney Milan, Zen Cho and Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters.

New novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Powers, a memoir by the first Black woman on the Supreme Court — and more.

From a Judy Blume classic to mysteries both otherworldly and close to home, these 11 titles capture the nerve-racking first days of tweendom — and all the wonderful and terrible days that follow.