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In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball.

His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.

How do you explain the democratic process to future voters? Start with these lively picture books and compelling histories.

Jason Schreier’s “Play Nice” tells the story of Blizzard Entertainment from its fratty, debauched ’90s heyday to the height of its corporate glut.

The follies of violence and rhetoric in the Vietnam War and World War II have a lot of lessons for the leaders of Israel, Iran and the next American president.

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.

“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”

Bob Woodward doesn’t know which story he wants to tell in his latest presidential chronicle.

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

Otherworldly creatures, apocalyptic environments, serial killers, zombies and more haunt these suspenseful comic books and graphic novels.