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Through an arduous summer of hiking, 13-year-old Finn Connelly finds common ground with his late firefighter father in Kate Messner’s new verse novel.

“The Woman in Me” reveals plenty about her life in the spotlight, and tempers well-earned bitterness with an enduring, insistent optimism.

Debut picture books by Jason Reynolds and Michael Datcher celebrate the cultural history of a neighborhood.

Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.

New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt and Sung-Yoon Lee tell the stories of people working through, under or above different kinds of power.

“John Lewis” and “Medgar and Myrlie” tell the stories of activists who struggled with when to push and when to compromise and build coalitions.

New books detail the lives of a politicking Roman emperor, people who communicate through touch and a man who helped make the American West into legend.

“Lovers in Auschwitz” and “Cold Crematorium,” two works by journalists published 74 years apart, offer different ways of representing the horrors of the Holocaust.

Three new books look at the tensions — left, center, right and further right — in the Democratic and Republican parties.

Four new books look to fauna to get us through tough times.