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The range and caliber of Joel Agee's work proves he's much more than the son of the late, Pulitzer-winning James Agee.

George Miller, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy look back at the making of an epic in Kyle Buchanan's "Blood, Sweat & Chrome."

Jennifer Haigh's "Mercy Street" is a clear-eyed novel about abortion rights in America.

Regional books of interest for February:

The range and caliber of Joel Agee's work proves he's much more than the son of the late, Pulitzer-winning James Agee.

George Miller, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy look back at the making of an epic in Kyle Buchanan's "Blood, Sweat & Chrome."

Stephanie Wrobel returns with twisted psychological thriller "This Might Hurt" and more of this week's best new books.

Author Shelley Puhak resurrects two queens of the early Middle Ages from historical erasure in a powerful feminist history.

Catherine Oster explains why, in 1776, high society was obsessed with the Chudleigh scandal.

In “Index, a History of,” scholar Dennis Duncan delivers an informative and witty history of those oft-overlooked back pages.