At the heart of Chilmark summer resident Donna Gordon’s novel is 13-year-old Lee Foster, who’s lively and funny and full of the spirit of adventure.

Ursula Goodenough presents a second edition of her book The Sacred Depths of Nature.

Holly Nadler’s feel-good memoir The Hobo Diaries: Down and Out on Martha’s Vineyard” is a bright and sunny reading experience, but it starts with a straightforward horror-story scenario.

It's been 402 years since English religious pilgrims settled in Plymouth at the native Wampanoag town of Patuxet.

I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me is a collection of short misadventures experienced by Jason Gay and his wife Bessie and their two sons, Jesse and his younger brother Jojo.

Douglas Cabral, at the beginning of his new book My Shenandoah, freely admits that he is not an unbiased biographer of Vineyard sailing captain Robert Douglas.

Michael Hill's new biography, Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald, is a funny, genial book, much like its subject.

At the beginning of Elisa Speranza’s fiction debut The Italian Prisoner, young Rose Marino is poised on the brink of committing a daring social act.

As Nancy Slonim Aronie, founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop (and author of Writing from the Heart), writes in her new book Memoir as Medicine, everyone has stories inside them.

As Julia Spiro’s new novel Full opens, her main character, Ava Maloney, is about to reach a crisis point.