Kate Tuttle

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

When Sophie moves from Vermont to Jamaica Plain, she’s relieved that she’s no longer the only kid of color in her classroom, but everything else is a challenge for the 11-year-old newcomer. Things begin to turn around when Sophie meets a cool teenaged neighbor with an adorable pug, and the pair collaborate with Sophie’s godmother, a Boston Globe journalist, to produce the Barking Puppy, a newspaper by dogs, for dogs.

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In Kevin Wilson’s fifth novel, Run for the Hills, forthcoming in May from Ecco, a quartet of half-siblings, strangers to one another, join up to embark on a cross-country road trip to California to confront their father, who over the years had left each of them in turn to form a new family. Charles Hill, the absent father, is a man with “no anchor,” Wilson says.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

Author Nancy KricorianDavid Wilson for the Boston GlobeNancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian culture — ”there were four Armenian churches, three Armenian bakeries, and two Armenian cultural centers” there at the time, she remembers. But it still wasn’t until she was in college that she heard her own grandmother’s story.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after the war, escaping a quickly-descending Iron Curtain. But it wasn’t until his parents died and he had to look through the records left behind that he learned of the financial windfall that had allowed their new life to unfold halfway around the world.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kate Tuttle

An illustration of Gretchen Rubin.David WilsonGretchen Rubin (“The Happiness Project,” “Better Than Before”) has become an extremely best-selling provider of advice for those seeking a more satisfying life. She’s also a mother, and like most mothers, her children sometimes roll her eyes at the advice she gives them.