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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 Lily Meyer’s first novel, “Short War,” love and family ties are tested by a nation’s upheaval.

Her story collection is about the thorny conundrums of being alive.

Betsy Lerner’s assured first novel, “Shred Sisters,” maps the effects of a daughter’s volatility on her parents and younger sister.

In “Sins of the Shovel,” Rachel Morgan describes the dark, chaotic early days of American archaeology.

The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.

As a scholar, Laurence Ralph specialized in youth violence. Then a relative was killed. “Sito” tells the story.

In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.

John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.

“Sleep,” the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother’s present and her disturbing, unresolved past.