Casting into the Light: Tales of a Fishing Life by Janet Messineo, Pantheon, 320 pgs., $26.95. From her earliest years, writes Janet Messineo in her terrific new book Casting into the Light: Tales...

Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, author of Hiroshima by Jeremy Treglown, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, 384 pgs., $28. Biographer, critic, and former TLS editor Jeremy Treglown...

Living Life with the Grace of a Butterfly by Shirley W. Mayhew, Music Street Press, 2019, 117 pgs., $10. Longtime Martha’s Vineyard readers will greet this slim volume with a warm, welcoming...

Martha’s Vineyard Fish Tales by Nelson Sigelman, Stackpole Books, 2019, 224 pages, $24.95 The subtitle of Nelson Sigelman’s new book Martha’s Vineyard Fish Tales stakes out its...

The Making of Nantucket: Family Lives and Fortunes in the Nineteenth Century, Everett U. Crosby, Spinner Publications, 2018, 250 pages, $27. Nantucket (that other island) is a spit of land 30 miles...

On the Same Page By N. D. Galland, William Morrow, 2018, 304 pgs., $15.99. On the Same Page, the delightful new book by novelist and Vineyard resident N. D. Galland, centers around an unlikely...

Chappaquiddick Speaks by Bill Pinney, Stormy Weather Press, 2017, 398 pages, $19.95. One of the lesser tolls of tragedy is the way it taints places. No one can look at the beautiful rolling fields...

Dog Training Diaries: Proven Expert Tips & Tricks to Live in Harmony with Your Dog by Tom Shelby, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 176 pgs., $16.99  The pet industry in the United States has...

Secrets from the Deep (The Devlin Quick Mysteries) by Linda Fairstein, Dial Books, 2018, 280 pages, $16.99. Secrets from the Deep is the third installment of international bestselling author Linda...

Every Day Is Extra by John Kerry, Simon & Schuster, 2018, 641 pages, $35. By now the standard pattern of political memoirs is depressingly clear: some grandee retires (or is shown the door) and...