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Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.

The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection.

Fifty years after “Salem’s Lot,” Joe Hill (himself a celebrated horror novelist) looks at what made that vampire story so terrifying.

In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.

The writer-director made hit after hit movie, until he didn’t. But he doesn’t let it get him down.

In Mason Coile’s new book, the first human settlers on Mars arrive only to find that their helper robots have gone off script.

In “Rocket Dreams,” Christian Davenport revels in the struggle between the billionaire moguls Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to leave the Earth behind.

“Fit for Life,” which she wrote with her husband, was a best seller in the 1980s promoting good health ahead of weight loss. But doctors were critical.

Keira D’Amato retired from running in her early 20s, but a decade later she was back and setting marathon records. A new memoir details her journey, which is still unfolding.

Morally ambiguous killers, social outcasts, bumbling misfits and misunderstood monsters take center stage in these thrilling, and deeply human, books.