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An author and a professor, he taught a popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the importance of sleep, including “power naps.”

Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.

With books like “The Mother Knot” and “Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness,” she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism and the Black experience in America.

“The Unraveling of Julia,” her 37th book, has taken the thriller writer into new territory: “I’m going Gothic, baby!”

A harrowing new book tells the story of the women determined to learn the fates of the babies born to their pregnant daughters in captivity.

Bruce Holsinger tackles timely topics and the ties that bind in “Culpability.”

He was an intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.

“A Marriage at Sea” tells the stranger-than-fiction story of one couple who traded their lives for the ocean — and almost lost them.

Sarah MacLean’s “These Summer Storms” is both an inheritance drama and a sizzling romance.