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Kate Milford’s cozy mystery is set at an abandoned amusement park, while Erin Entrada Kelly and Eliot Schrefer’s horror satire unfolds at a malevolent sleepaway camp.

In this surreal book, two spiraling men swap lives.

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In her lyrical new biography, “This Dark Night,” Deborah Lutz shines light on the most enigmatic of the literary, secluded Brontë sisters.

She wanted to learn about pyramids, and ended up with hallucinatory sex scenes. Her new book is a provocation: Just what genre is it anyway?

He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned — and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author’s most famous works.

In his memoir, Simon Paré-Poupart recounts the highs and lows of hauling trash for more than 20 years.

After nearly nine years of practice, he made John Milton’s epic poem vividly dramatic for audiences and inspired a study of his “memory virtuosity.”

In her new history, “Cocked and Boozy,” Brooke Barbier illuminates the pervasive role that alcohol played throughout the colonial era.

Her memoir follows the path from an abusive childhood to Hollywood stardom. But it’s being released amid a backlash over transgender rights that’s caught up to her, too.