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In “Shipwrecked,” the historian Jonathan W. White tells the story of an outlaw mariner who worked for the Confederacy and against the Klan.

In the essay collection “Dark Days,” Roger Reeves tries to sidestep mainstream arguments to engage deeply with the way people actually live and think.

Brando Skyhorse’s novel is the subtly dystopian story of a Mexican American woman who realizes that America has become less welcoming to people like her.

In Kyle Dillon Hertz’s novel, “The Lookback Window,” a victim of child sexual abuse questions what healing looks like when a law gives him the chance to press charges against his assailants.

In “Time’s Mouth,” a time traveler forms a cult for pregnant women in the woods of Northern California.

In Elizabeth Acevedo’s new novel, a family grapples with life and grief after their sister, who can predict death, decides to host a wake for herself.

In “Flirting With Danger,” Janet Wallach tells the story of Marguerite Harrison, who traded a life of privilege to become America’s first international female spy.

Susan Casey has long been enchanted by the deep ocean. For her book “The Underworld,” she finally got to visit that unforgiving landscape herself.

In “Christendom,” the medievalist Peter Heather takes on a crucial millennium.

In Daniel Kraus’s novel “Whalefall,” a teenage diver is gulped down by a 60-ton whale and must try to escape.