When I turned to the table of contents in Emily St. John Mandel’s latest novel, "Sea of Tranquility" (Knopf, 272 pp., ★★★★ out of four), I started to worry.

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley is one of those books that is for the patient reader; ... All were vivid in my mind, leaving me to believe that The Winter Sea would make a stunning movie.

God’s creation of the Earth, Noah and the flood, Moses at the Red Sea: These pivotal stories from the Old Testament still resonate deeply with most Americans, who take the accounts literally ...

Two new books, Edith Widder’s “Below the Edge of Darkness” and Helen Scales’s “The Brilliant Abyss,” explore the darkest reaches and all that glows there.

Girl. Boy. Sea. By Chris Vick Published by Head of Zeus / Zephyr ISBN 978 1 7895 4138 0. Titles don’t come any more explicit than the on-the-nail name of Chris Vick’s third YA novel.

KAREN GOOD MARABLE: Yaya and the Sea was originally a journal entry I wrote on the A train in 2001. My friends and I had taken the exact journey I describe in the book, and there was a little Yaya ...