In his third novel, Victor Lodato uses 82-year-old Honey, the daughter of a mobster, to reckon with the role biological and chosen families play in our lives.

Kathy Greeley, who spent 37 years in schools, experienced the fundamental change inspired by the No Child Left Behind law and its ripple effects.

The newest novel by Henriette Lazaridis, “Last Days in Plaka,” follows a young woman – the daughter of expats, like herself – searching for connection to her Greek heritage and becoming entwined with the life of another. She speaks Tuesday at Harvard Book Store.

Fans of “enemies to lovers” plots are likely to enjoy “Dear Wendy,” an “enemies to friends” novel by recent Wellesley College grad Ann Zhao.

Sarah Boyer’s book of oral histories includes interviews with members of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil and political rights organization.

The book is based on Zalkind’s decade of reporting about a brutal triple murder in Waltham that claimed the death of her friend Erik Weissman.

Gerald Peary’s interviews with directors in “Mavericks” include John Waters, Senegal’s Ousmane Sembène and Iran’s Samira Makhmalbaf.

The Bryn Mawr Bookstore was founded in 1971 as one of 10 used bookshops in the Northeast opened by Bryn Mawr College graduates. Today, two remain: The Lantern in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge’s.

An inspirational writer can’t resist adding imagination into the story of a man raised in a jail cell who courted a woman met among Abraham Lincoln’s household, then lost her when fighting with the Union in the Civil War.

As a New Yorker staff writer about the Internet and digital culture, Kyle Chayka is surprisingly critical in “Filterworld” of the media he makes his living off of.