Plumbelly, about a 28-foot sloop and the dynamics of its sailors, is Gary Maynard's debut novel.

“By the water we all feel at home,” writes Barbara Bates Conroy in her intensely moving book Dear Jack: A Love Letter.

Naturally, a good many Vineyard tales verge on the odd.

It’s a testament to Tom Dresser’s storytelling gifts that a subject as big as whaling on the Vineyard can be told so well in only 150 pages.

In The Omega Principle Paul Greenberg explores so-called omega-3 fatty acids extracted from humble sea stock like Chesapeake menhaden.

Emily Cavanagh's new book, This Bright Beauty, once again concentrates on sisterhood.