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“Same Bed Different Dreams” is the rare sophomore novel that has the wild, freewheeling ambition of a debut.

In her new novel, “Sandwich,” Catherine Newman explores the aches and joys of midlife via one family’s summer week at the beach.

In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.

A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.

In her novel “Say Hello to My Little Friend,” Jennine Capó Crucet explores existential questions of isolation and belonging through two unlikely figures.

Lauren Elkin’s first novel, “Scaffolding,” traces the multiple infidelities of two Parisian couples a generation apart.

In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and heartbreaking “Scattergood,” the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.

The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process.

John Adams reviews “Schoenberg: Why He Matters,” in which Harvey Sachs explores the artistic, academic and spiritual life of a 20th-century cultural giant.

“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.