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“Bonding,” by Mariel Franklin, is a love story charged by the absurdities of a market-driven culture.

Two darkly amusing graphic novels for kids pit machine learning and rocket science against good old-fashioned humanity.

“Empire of the Elite,” by Michael M. Grynbaum, is a story of (mostly) insider-outsiders who helmed the glossiest American magazines in their heyday.

In Kerry Cullen’s uncanny debut, “House of Beth,” a queer 20-something finds that “straight” life comes with serious strings (and spirits) attached.

In “Nothing More of This Land,” the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island’s Indigenous history.

In “The Aviator and the Showman,” Laurie Gwen Shapiro tells the story of the doomed pilot’s marriage to “the publishing world’s P.T. Barnum.”

In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “The Bewitching,” a graduate student stumbles into a haunting conspiracy while researching a cult writer.

In “The Club,” Jennifer Dasal investigates a refuge for (some) expat artists in the City of Light.

The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the mishaps that ensued when American intelligence scrambled to remake itself after the fall of communism.

Kashana Cauley’s novel “The Payback” imagines a world where the Debt Police are real, and they’re into reiki.