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A beach on Long Island was the site of a little known act of attempted sabotage during World War II. That incident inspired historical fiction author Eve Karlin’s latest novel.

WSHU commentator David Bouchier has gathered his “few well-chosen words,” and published them in his latest book, Out of Order.

A new biography of Abraham Lincoln explores the president’s efforts to build a plan that would heal a nation recovering from a civil war.

A remarkably wise, slyly humorous and compassionate review of the year Keller spent gardening with his Connecticut “clients” (as he calls them) — cancer patients, special needs children, kids in juvenile detention facilities.

In 1938 a complex plan was underway to remove Adolf Hitler from power. A new historical novel takes a closer look at that plot and how it all went wrong.

Brutally realistic about the effects of war and realpolitik, but also affectingly personal and nostalgic, The Bucharest Dossier is suspenseful enough to make one forget the woes of the world for a while.

In his first novel, author Jeff Schnader sets his novel during the volatile student protests on the Columbia University campus in 1972.

Award-winning writer Colson Whitehead's latest novel is a comic crime caper set in 1960s Harlem.

Yale University Press has published the new edition of its Book of Quotes. This latest version sets the record straight on who really said what.

The king of horror and supernatural haunting, Stephen King, hasn’t forgotten his fan base — there’s a nod in his new book to The Shining’s creepy Overlook…