The Rise of Tourism on Martha’s Vineyard by Thomas Dresser, The History Press, 2020, 157 pages, $21.99. Thomas Dresser, in his new book The Rise of Tourism on Martha’s Vineyard, quotes...

Someone Else’s Secret by Julia Spiro, Lake Union Publishing, 2020, 415 pages, $14.95 Lindsey Davis, the main character in Julia Spiro’s debut novel Someone Else’s Secret, is at...

Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy by Skip Finley, Naval Institute Press, 2020, 304 pages, $42. Readers familiar with Moby Dick will re member Dagoo, the statuesque African...

The Moon Always Rising by Alice C. Early, She Writes Press, 2020, 364 pgs., $16.95. Eleanor (Els) Gordon is almost hollowed out by grief and stress and general burnout at the beginning of Alice...

1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton, Knopf, $32.50, 480 pgs. Even before the American Revolution was over, people were arguing about when it started. Was the kickoff date 1770,...

Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein, Henry Holt, 2020, $26, 221 pgs. Universal Love, the new story collection by Alexander Weinstein, the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of...

Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia by Marc Favreau, Little, Brown, 2019, 306 pgs., $19.99 Marc Favreau’s new book Spies opens with the gripping story of a woman who’d...

There You Are by Mathea Morais, Amberjack Publishing, 2019, 311 pages, $24.99 Mathea Morais teaches at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and is the new director of the Noepe Center...

Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, by Lizabeth Cohen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, $35, 547 pages. “In every...

Around the World in Thirty Years by Shirley W. Mayhew, Music Street Press, 2019, 153 pages, $21. There are a few inherent perils in writing travel memoirs, of course. Some are caught up in the...