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In “The Wide Wide Sea,” Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer’s final voyage to the Pacific islands.

The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.

No, they’re not boring. But the charm and magic of these audiobooks make them the ideal bedtime stories for adults.

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month’s diverse offerings.

He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.

“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure.

Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.

In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.

It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.

In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.