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Decades after “Lives of the Monster Dogs” comes “King Nyx,” where the wife of a paranormal researcher explores why girls have gone missing from a remote island.

“Wandering Stars” considers the fallout of colonization and the forced assimilation of Native Americans.

It’s one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the ’80s. On its way to Broadway, the show’s cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit.

For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.”

In “The Darkest White,” Eric Blehm chronicles the 2003 disaster that killed the pioneering snowboarder Craig Kelly and six others.

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides.

“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.

She has become known as an Ibsen whisperer, bringing “An Enemy of the People” to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams.

Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.

In “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” the pioneering journalist recounts a life in, and of, Silicon Valley.